by Furious | Sep 4, 2013 | News
(Fox 23) Tulsa – Deborah Brown Community School is one student short for the remainder of the school year. Terrance Parker said the school hassled him and didn’t leave him a choice. Parker said he yanked his 7-year-old daughter, Tiana, out of classes...
by Furious | Sep 4, 2013 | News
DENVER (AP) — A meeting between the Wyoming chapter of the NAACP and an organizer for the Ku Klux Klan over the weekend is believed to be the first of its kind. The meeting between Jimmy Simmons, president of the Casper NAACP, and John Abarr, a KKK organizer from...
by Furious | Sep 3, 2013 | News
A Nigerian girl, 10-year old Zuriel Oduwole has made history as the youngest person ever to be interviewed on popular magazine Forbes. The interview with the award winning documentary film maker, conference speaker and writer is featured in the August 2013 edition of...
by Furious | Sep 3, 2013 | News
Appearing on This Week with George Stephanopoulos, Tavis Smiley made no qualms about contrasting Martin Luther King Jr.’s nonviolent legacy and President Obama’s call for war with Syria. In Smiley’s view, President Obama, who recently spoke at the commemoration of the...
by Furious | Sep 3, 2013 | News
(KTVI) – Jaylen Bledsoe is a 15-year-old sophomore at Hazelwood West High School who started his own tech company that is now worth $3.5 million in just three years. Jaylen sat down with John Pertzborn to explain how he starting building a company when he was only 12....
by Furious | Sep 2, 2013 | News
Unless you have been under a rock the last few months, you have heard many of the comments Cornell West has made about President Obama. He has challenged the President’s policies, the black communities undying devotion to POTUS, and has even called him a global...
by Furious | Sep 2, 2013 | News
When most kids start their freshman year of college, it takes some time to get used to the small, cramped living spaces and to sharing a bathroom with a dozen people. But not James Ward. The Howard University student spent much of his childhood homeless, alternating...
by Pret-A-Porte | Aug 30, 2013 | Blog, News, Positivity
As you read this title and saw the featured image, what did you think? If you’re like most people who sees or even hears of a young black man with dreads no less, you thought that he was caught doing some sort of criminal activity. Well I am please to say nope,...
by Furious | Aug 29, 2013 | News
Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) were founded for the purpose of giving African-Americans the opportunity to get a higher education. Today, there are 105 HBCUs in the United States and of that group, only TWO institutions have swimming teams. North...
by Furious | Aug 29, 2013 | Celebrities, News
The Atlanta based rapper who built his career as a hard core, drug pushing southern king has now adopted a family-friendly image that hasn’t scored him too much attention or money in recent years. T.I., Born Clifford Harris, went from writing rhymes about his...