by Randall Barnes | Mar 24, 2014 | Positivity
Setting Relationship Standards “Nowadays, I like to keep it classy. But, even if I was like I was back a couple of years ago, I definitely wouldn’t fight over an ugly, brain-dead, high school dropout. You wouldn’t even catch me with a guy like that. I have places to...
by Monique Cowan | Dec 31, 2013 | Culture, Positivity
I recently read an article that was supposed to big up the Black father. The article’s title (something along the lines of “Black Men as Deadbeats is a Myth”) suggested, at least to me, that this would be a story of a man or men who go through hell and high water to...
by Furious | Nov 1, 2013 | News, Positivity
We are often talking about the bad thing happening in our community, but today I want to take a moment to shine a light on something great. In fact, I want to encourage you to spread the word and do the same. These are the stories we need to take our social media...
by Furious | Oct 11, 2013 | Positivity
1) What’s the mission of The DeKevious Wilson Debonair Project? “The Mission of “The DeKevious Wilson Debonair Project” is to uplift and encourage young high school and college men to become their “highest potential” by providing them with the essential...
by Pret-A-Porte | Sep 27, 2013 | News, Positivity
Tobias Bass, 10, wants to be a pastor, brings home good grades and sports trophies but that alone is not why he was featured on Oklahoma’s News 9. This young man wrote into the news station requesting help NOT in the form of money but a loan, a loan for a...
by Claytron Brown | Sep 21, 2013 | Culture, History, Positivity
Woman. A term that not all women of color have often, and arguably until this day, have been excluded from. Since the inception of this country, it was white women who were the quintessential “women.” They were its ideal standard of beauty, chastity, and purity. This...
by Claytron Brown | Sep 21, 2013 | Culture, History, Positivity
“Dr. Clenora Hudson-Weems: “Africana Womanism is a term I coined and defined in 1987 after nearly two years of publicly debating the importance of self-naming for Africana women. Why the term ‘Africana Womanism’?…. The first part of the coinage,...
by Claytron Brown | Sep 21, 2013 | Blog, Culture, History, Positivity
Africans were the first to inhabit the earth. Fossil records as well as DNA analysis give scientific evidence to support this fact. Therefore, the first woman to give birth was a Black African woman. It is from us that all humans have come. The other races of...
by Furious | Sep 18, 2013 | Blog, Business, Positivity
Obviously Detroit is in desperate need of economic revitalization, but bet you didn’t think it would come in the form of a 10 year old, little black girl, did you? Don’t worry, we didn’t either, but the young dynamo, business tycoon is off to a great...
by Claytron Brown | Sep 15, 2013 | Culture, Positivity
People of color, mainly African Americans, are a people forged through the fires of Hell while resisting every step of the way with hope that Heaven exists somewhere for them. Since the onset of this nation, and I mean since its independence from Great Britain,...