by Randall Barnes | Apr 5, 2014 | Blog, Business, Celebrities, Culture, Positivity
“I know y’all gonna feel me on this one You gotta feel me on this one” -Rick Ross, “Sixteen” ft. Andre 3000 Ever since I was a kid, I always had the gift of analytical thinking. Well, it’s a gift and a curse. Because of my habit of overanalyzing things, I always...
by Randall Barnes | Apr 3, 2014 | Blog, Business, Celebrities, Culture, Positivity
“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.” – Vince Lombardi On Monday night, I decided to tune in to The Arsenio Hall Show. I always try my best to find time to catch...
by Furious | Apr 3, 2014 | Blog
This is a serious question. Frankly, I want to believe the former is where we are as a community, but the position I sit in everyday makes me believe the latter is the truth. I’m one of the moderators here at Urban Intellectuals and it may not seem like much,...
by Greg Bradshaw | Apr 3, 2014 | Blog
I have been a fan of the NFL’s Washington Redskins for over 30 years. NFL fans know that the Redskins have been one of the league’s poster children for futility for quite some time. That’s why I was elated when my favorite team signed wide receiver DeSean Jackson to a...
by Spirit of Thoth | Apr 1, 2014 | Blog
Hello UI peeps. This is one that will probably vilify me in the eyes of many men in the UI community. Basically I’m calling out all the punk ass dudes and weak ass brothas in the UI community and in the world. We see it all the time, people whining about how “Women...
by Greg Bradshaw | Mar 31, 2014 | Blog, News
March Madness is well upon us as I write this. Filling out a bracket based on a field of 68 teams vying to become the NCAA champion of college basketball in an effort to win money (or bragging rights for correctly choosing a champion) is a rush that many never thought...
by Samayoch | Mar 31, 2014 | Blog
And there it was, the icing on the cake of racial stereotypes and defamation. Fashion designers at the Milan Halloween fest in Italy Europe, otherwise spectacles of originality, joined the global peasantry and closed their ranks in what I call the Blackface-polonaise...
by Claudius West | Mar 29, 2014 | Blog, Celebrities, Culture
Television personality and comedian Nick Cannon debuted his white faced alter-ego “Connor Smallnut” this week on Instagram. The backlash on both sides was immediate, predictable and, as usual, completely overblown. From one side, cries of “reverse...
by Dorian Smith | Mar 29, 2014 | Blog, Celebrities
Following a victory over Paul Malignaggi, Adrien Broner responds to a question in a post-fight interview saying: “I took his belt…and his girl,” in reference to a controversy over a mutual female acquaintance they shared. While the crowd roared in reaction to such a...
by Beautiful Ka | Mar 28, 2014 | Blog, Culture, Positivity
Black inferiority goes very deep to the point where it has a sublime life line within our community. BI roots come from being in a mental, physical, financial and spiritual states of consciousness/awareness that lead to a deep seeded envy, jealousy, and hate (EJH)...
