by Candace | Jan 18, 2016 | Blog
Ever since Denzel Washington and Hallie Berry won Oscars for Training Day and Monster’s Ball I questioned why black celebrities set the Grammy’s and Academy Awards at such a high standard. Why not create your own award shows or make a bigger deal out of winning a BET...
by Koba | Jan 17, 2016 | Blog
When Tennessee police officer Eric Crowder learned his friend and mentor, a sergeant at the police department where they work, needed a kidney, he didn’t think twice about getting tested. And like a holiday miracle, he was a match. Crowder quickly offered to...
by Koba | Jan 17, 2016 | Blog, Business
All too often, African-American women dread washing their hair, since it can take multiple hours or even a whole day. Not only did entrepreneur Gwen Jimmere create a solution to this common inconvenience, but she is also the first and only African-American to hold a...
by Koba | Jan 17, 2016 | Blog
Rodgers Travel Bureau opened their doors in 1949. The company was started by Harold Rodgers, an African American medical student who was working as a porter for TWA at Philadelphia International Airport to help pay for medical school. He knew the business well, and...
by Koba | Jan 17, 2016 | Blog
“Suddenly, everything you have been taught, everything you believe comes face to face with the truth…but in confronting this truth, it upsets the internal belief system upon which your life has functioned. Its when you have been raised in a certain religion, or a...
by Koba | Jan 17, 2016 | Blog
It was one of those muggy late-August mornings when you can see the transparent heat waves rising from the asphalt. The kind of draining day that would make anyone question why they’re buried under football pads. But there they were working, Imhotep Charter, with...
by Koba | Jan 17, 2016 | Blog
You would think when a student saves another life, they would be rewarded and celebrated. But know, not at this racist piece of sh*t school. Indiyah Rush has asthma and noticed that Alexis Kyle was having issues with her asthma. She thought quick and gave her the...
by Candace | Jan 15, 2016 | Blog
This Dynamic Duo is setting the bar high! Identical twins, Shera Grant and Shanta Owens, are truly living up to what we would imagine only identical twins can do. Born and raised in Birmingham these identical twin both graduated from Alabama State University. The...
by Candace | Jan 12, 2016 | Blog
The banks are at it again, it first started in the housing sector and has now moved to automobile lending. An Ohio-based Fifth third bank has agreed to pay an $18 million settlement for discriminatory lending. But the land of the free and home of the brave is not...
by Candace | Jan 8, 2016 | Blog
Ariell R. Johnson decided to bring in the New Year by opening her own business, Amalgam Comics & Coffeehouse. Her comic book coffee shop is the first African American female-owned comic book shop on the East Coast. Philadelphia is known for its plethora of comic...
