by Phyllis Banks Cook | Jun 8, 2014 | Blog, Culture
Every week end we get a murder report from Chicago, this week they killed forty-two more African Americans. One of the craziest ideas I heard was from Roland Martin Show. He recommended that Marshall Law be declared, and the government send in the troops. Chicago...
by Mo Gamble | Jun 7, 2014 | Blog, Culture, News
[Reporting For Team News One] This could have been just another holiday family function gone wrong. 10 O’clock on Memorial Day evening, Carlos Wynn the victim, went to a distant relatives home where his wife Ashley Miller was visiting, moments after his arrival...
by Phyllis Banks Cook | Jun 7, 2014 | Blog, Culture
You know we have shades of vulgar and levels of acceptance. We used to have cultural standards to define vulgarity as African American, what the hell happened? Did we forget we should have a public and private self? Did we forget there was a lane for children and a...
by Phyllis Banks Cook | Jun 7, 2014 | Blog
Does that sound strange? It may sound strange to people that are unfamiliar with the School to Prison Pipeline. As African Americans, we need to be on this issue no matter what part of America you reside in. This is the beginning of the socio-economic trap. If your...
by Hollie Aríel | Jun 6, 2014 | Blog
Around this time, many of our young black women and men are getting their first apartment as they move away from home to find work or continue on to higher education. Ain’t that a victory! A victory indeed considering the strides and sacrifices made to get here....
by Furious | Jun 5, 2014 | Blog
Malcolm X is one of the greatest speakers and most brilliant minds ever produced in this country. His ability to sum up the racial indifference of the mainstream, white society in this country is raw, gritty, and real. Although this piece was filmed in the 1960s, it...
by Furious | Jun 3, 2014 | Blog
Rare color footage of Malcolm X appearing on a television show in Chicago called “City Desk” on March 17, 1963. “My father didn’t know his last name. My father got his last name from his grandfather and his grandfather got it from his...
by Phyllis Banks Cook | Jun 1, 2014 | Blog
STEM, science, technology, engineering, math, is one of the new hot buttons being promoted as the savior of the under resourced urban educational system. As an eternal optimist, I wanted to believe that if schools adopted a STEM curriculum it would provide a stable...
by Phyllis Banks Cook | May 31, 2014 | Blog
If I was a prisoner in Guantanamo I would be so f****** angry I could not think straight. I empathize with the prisoners but I cannot imagine the sheer level of craziness involved in their daily lives. The United States government has tortured these men for years. We...
by Mo Gamble | May 30, 2014 | Blog, Culture, News
[Sometimes it is necessary to flash back to a moment when the law actually works for the people.] Last fall, a St. Petersburg Florida police officer pulls over a green sport utility vehicle for a rolling right-hand turn at a red light according to the Tampa Bay Times....
