by Chum Sejimon | Mar 24, 2017 | A List Categories, Africa, Black Inventors, Black Pride, Blog, Culture, Info, News
Avid readers of Urban Intellectuals may remember our first article about Manuel Godoy’s innovative video game demo, released last summer, entitled Black Sands: Legends of Kemet. The game would be the first of its kind, setting the record straight for a history...
by Randall Barnes | Mar 5, 2017 | A List Categories, Black Pride, Blog, HBCU Pulse
As media outlets, we must understand the power that we wield. Social media allows us to have a voice and a platform to showcase voices that would usually be ignored. HBCU’s, especially those that aren’t a part of the Black College Ivy League squad (Morehouse, Spelman,...
by Krystal | Feb 12, 2017 | Blog, Did You Know, DYK, History
The FBI began COINTELPRO—short for Counterintelligence Program—in 1956 to disrupt the activities of the Communist Party of the United States. In the 1960s, it was expanded to include a number of other domestic groups, such as the Ku Klux Klan, the Socialist Workers...
by Candace | Feb 12, 2017 | Blog
Chris Long, New England Patriots’ defensive end, has been added to the list of players that have decided not to visit the President following the team’s Super Bowl win. Some are surprised because Long is a white male and the other Patriots opting out of the visit are...
by Chum Sejimon | Feb 8, 2017 | Black Economics, Blog, Did You Know, DYK, Thought Talk Speculation
In light of Dr. Ben Carson’s nomination as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and the commencement of the Trump Administration, there is no better time than now to discuss the creation of the “black ghetto” and housing discrimination known as redlining....
by Forest Parks | Jan 4, 2017 | Black Inventors, Blog, Did You Know
James Forten was a free black man born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1766. Throughout his life he did many great things, amassing a huge fortune by revolutionising sails for boats but gave back heavily to his fellow man. He was the grandson of enslaved people but...
by Forest Parks | Jan 3, 2017 | Black Inventors, Blog, Did You Know
Crum was not the original surname of George, a talented chef and restauranteur. However he adopted the name not because of his idea for the potato chip but because it was the name his father used in his career as a jockey! Crum was born as George Speck in 1822 in...
by Randall Barnes | Dec 29, 2016 | Blog, HBCU Pulse
Vote for Miss FVSU to be one of the ten HBCU Campus Queens at this link: http://bit.ly/2gDKQxF In my life, I’d never expected to be exposed to as many varying experiences as I have this past semester at my HBCU Fort Valley State University. I’ve done things I’ve...
by Forest Parks | Dec 29, 2016 | Blog
The San Francisco police union sued the city last week after the city approved a policy that bans officers from shooting at moving vehicles (aka fleeing vehicles) and from applying the controversial chokehold on any suspect! The Union are making their case related to...
by Forest Parks | Dec 28, 2016 | Blog
Is it okay to be racist amongst your friends, absolutely not! However, Trump’s New York campaign Co-Chair and Buffalo real estate developer Carl Paladino seems to think it is! Paladino had an email leaked where he wished death upon the Obamas and said that...
