by Forest Parks | Jan 18, 2017 | News, Politics News
A much publicised fight between Rep. John Lewis and Donald Trump over legitimacy and attending the inaugartion has led to many many more representatives deciding not to attend Trump’s ceromony. Following Trump’s abuse against Lewis Rep. Yvette Clarke and...
by Forest Parks | Jan 18, 2017 | Celebrities, News
Octavia Spencer is gaining so much respect and her latest move is an awesome ode to her direction and commitment to the community. She bought out an entire theater in Los Angeles (Rave Baldwin Hills theater) for a showing of Hidden Figures so that low-income families...
by Forest Parks | Jan 18, 2017 | News, Politics News
Kanye, Harvey, Trump sure seems to be looking like he is trying to reach out to the black community by bringing absolutely zero experts into the fold. Entertainers who in all likelihood can’t exactly challenge or change anything about the president. Making them...
by Forest Parks | Jan 18, 2017 | News
An interracial couple were trying to enjoy a meal at a black owned restaurant when a man comes up to them to “interview” them and basically hurls abuse. ‘Look at the fuckery, in a black-owned restaurant.’ the man starts ‘Excuse me, are y’all together, like...
by Forest Parks | Jan 18, 2017 | News
One man attended MLK Day celebrations with his kids to celebrate the iconic civil rights leader, to celebrate his legacy and work as should be. However, he didn’t get that, he got frustration at the harassment, we can only assume came from police. He said that...
by Forest Parks | Jan 18, 2017 | Celebrities, News
Steve Harvey called into his own syndicated radio show on Monday to show surprise at the backlash against his meeting with Donald Trump and even says that he found the meeting constructive! He said he didn’t realise the backlash would be so fierce! Really,...
by Candace | Jan 17, 2017 | News
When 37 year-old, Jeena Lee-Walker decided to teach her class about the “Central Park Five” she never imagined it would leave her unemployed. Lee-Walker, a teacher at New York City’s High School of Arts, taught her students that racism exists in the justice when she...
by Forest Parks | Jan 17, 2017 | History, Modern History
A year after Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. made his iconic “I Have a Dream” on the National Mall in August 1963, an unsigned letter arrived, urging the civil rights leader to end his own life in light of allegations and evidence supposedly gathered by...
by Forest Parks | Jan 17, 2017 | Black Inventors, History
Born in 1920 in Dallas, Texas, to a maid and a carpenter (later a minister) Otis Bobby Boykin probably didn’t realise he would make life better for many many people! He attended Fisk University on scholarship working as a laboratory assistant at the...
by Reneegede | Jan 16, 2017 | Opinion
I remember the first time I met Eddie Long … or the first time I made the acquaintance of Eddie Long’s “entourage” in the form of a pack of wild security guards … Black folks who had been given just enough ‘white power’ to...
