by Kenya | Jul 12, 2013 | Blog, News
I have been following the Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman tragedy from it’s inception, like millions of other people. I, too was infuriated when the bureaucracy in Sanford, Florida, had every intention of letting Zimmerman go free without being charged or even...
by Spirit of Thoth | Jul 8, 2013 | Blog, Celebrities, History, News
Now I’m probbably going to be called an “Uncle Tom” or “White Washed” because of ths new post… But so the F^#% what. I see a growing problem in our community. That problem is the black journalist/TV reporter?correspondent/Talk Show...
by Nathan McTeer | Jul 5, 2013 | Blog, Celebrities
For years know Bill Cosby has been spreading the same doctrine of black self improvement an that all of our problems stem from our own misguidance. They’re several flaws in this theory and I will hope to illuminate them. In a recent interview Bill goes on a...
by jerryl | Jul 3, 2013 | Blog, News
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta to go on trial in November The war crimes trial of Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta will begin on Nov 12, judges at the International Criminal Court ruled on Thursday, accepting his lawyers’ request for more time to prepare his...
by Nathan McTeer | Jul 2, 2013 | Blog, History
For years African Americans have been used as complacent pawns to a failing system of American Education. I have been a student in Baltimore City Schools for years and the constricting structures of policing blackness has appalled me. If we take a minute to analyse...
by jerryl | Jul 2, 2013 | Blog, History
Uncle Tom History has not been kind to Uncle Tom, the hero of Uncle Tom’s Cabin and one of the most popular figures of nineteenth-century American fiction. After its initial burst of sensational popularity and influence, Uncle Tom’s Cabin fell into neglect. Its...
by Furious | Jun 25, 2013 | News
Unless you have been under a rock for the last few days, you have heard the AMA, the American Medical Association, declared obesity to be a disease. I cannot believe this is real. How in the world is a lifetime of poor decisions dismissed as a disease? People are...
by Furious | Jun 21, 2013 | News
The Horizon Science Academy in Ohio is facing heat from the natural hair community after a copy of a letter to parents that included a ban on afro puffs and ‘small twisted braids’ was posted online. The letter details changes to the dress code for the upcoming school...
by Furious | Jun 15, 2013 | News
The Root – Edith Jones, a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit in Texas, is the target of an ethics complaint by civil rights groups who claim that she said in a speech at the University of Pennsylvania Law School that “racial groups like...
by Furious | Jun 12, 2013 | News
The violence in Chicago has gotten out of control, and some people are getting tired of it. Mayor Rahm Emanuel has lost favor on the south side of the city primarily because he has either been unable or unwilling to do what is necessary to fix the epidemic of...