by Forest Parks | Dec 22, 2016 | News
Harper Lee’s 1960 novel To Kill A Mockingbird deals with harsh realities in 1930s deep south, racial inequality within the legal system and the harsh realities that faced many blacks during this period. Sadly, you could argue that not a whole lot has changed,...
by Forest Parks | Dec 22, 2016 | Positivity
I love seeing these videos. A young man was working hard at his job as a waiter when the customer felt he needed a bump. A big bump, a $300 tip, as the man said, he felt he needed to help this hardworking kid, not just 20% plus a Zero! More than that. And the waiter...
by Forest Parks | Dec 22, 2016 | News, Politics News
“The left wants power taken away from the white establishment and they want a profound change in the way America is run.” On Tuesday night Bill O’Reilly made claims that attempts to abolish the electoral college by the left were race related, were to take power...
by Candace | Dec 21, 2016 | News
Adam Saleh is an actor, he has some pretty funny prank videos circulating on the web. The 22 years old Arab American was recently kicked off a Delta Airline flight for speaking in his native tongue. While on the flight he was on the phone with his mother speaking...
by Candace | Dec 21, 2016 | News
The Trump affect is truly taking over America. White Americans from many different classes are way too comfortable spewing racist rhetoric at people of color? What is more disturbing than the woman expressing how she truly feels about people of color is the fact that...
by Candace | Dec 21, 2016 | Did You Know
Charles Richard Patterson was born into slavery in April of 1833 in Virginia. In 1861 he settled in Greenfield, Ohio to escape slavery and start anew. He used his blacksmith skills to gain employment at a carriage building company. In 1873 he took the skills he...
by Forest Parks | Dec 21, 2016 | News
“There’s a normalization of trauma in this community,… We don’t engage it, we don’t address it.” Many black people are suffering from mental trauma and other conditions but with treatment being out of reach many in the community are left to suffer the effects,...
by Forest Parks | Dec 21, 2016 | News
Seriously, do we need more of this! Are the youth not supposed to be our future? It’s videos like this that can make a man lose hope. The racist snapchat post by students at Oregon City High School shows them complaining about principle Tom Lovell and black...
by Forest Parks | Dec 21, 2016 | Blog
Being black goes way beyond the shade of skin. They say color is only skin deep… Well that may be true but BLACK goes to the core! Being black is such an felt identity in modern America that it needs to be embraced. One’s actual blackness should never be a...
by Forest Parks | Dec 21, 2016 | Culture, News
Reboots are often a BAD idea, the updates often miss the mark or try to hard to nod the original source material. They rarely work as people would like. However, Sony Pictures Television is talking about rebooting ‘All in the Family’, ‘Good Times’, ‘The Jeffersons’...
