by Forest Parks | Dec 21, 2016 | News
Black preschoolers, children and teens are exposed to nearly 50% more junk food adverts than their white counterparts. These are the findings of a recent study by the Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity, examining TV food advertising towards kids. The study...
by Forest Parks | Dec 21, 2016 | History
A white man’s slaves were for many his most prized possessions. These “objects” were valuable and valuable items need to be insured! Slow sales led New York Life, the countrys’ third largest life insurance company, to look south and in in 1846...
by Forest Parks | Dec 21, 2016 | Culture, News, Opinion
How can this mess in America be solved? Police are shooting black men seemingly for nothing, beating them when they feel like it. It feels like a mafia stomping on whoever they feel like. Can this be changed, healed, should black people even begin to entertain the...
by Forest Parks | Dec 21, 2016 | Africa, Culture
J International AKA The Face Of Travel visited Kenya, for many black Americans Africa feels like a world so far departed that it bears no connection. However there is always a draw and this short video gives one man’s run down (condensed) of one of the most...
by Forest Parks | Dec 21, 2016 | Opinion
The story goes something like this… the term African American was first coined by Rev. Jesse Jackson and some other scholars during a late 80s news conference to fight the effect of racism on black people in the USA, to raise the self esteem of the people. Some...
by Candace | Dec 20, 2016 | News
The vile manner in which a black mentally disabled student was sexually violated is so hard to fathom. It is hard to believe that someone would assault another person in the manner that four white students sexually violated their teammate. On October 23, 2015, John...
by Forest Parks | Dec 20, 2016 | Celebrities, Funny, News
What the hell! 2 Chainz is off his head, surely! He just put together a new ugly Christmas sweater, encrusted with gold and diamonds worth $90,000! These damn rappers will do anything it seems! He teamed up with his jeweler Joe Avianne of Avianne & Co to make the...
by Forest Parks | Dec 20, 2016 | News
A federal judge approved $4.7 million to be settled with plaintiffs in a class action suit against a St Louis suburb that illegally jailed nearly 2,000 people. Mother Jones reported: The plaintiffs in the class action lawsuit alleged that the city of Jennings,...
by Forest Parks | Dec 20, 2016 | Celebrities, News
Close friends and former lovers facing each other for a candid talk about matters close to their heart and life….. That’s what happened when Serena and Common sat down for an hour-long ESPN special “The Undefeated In-Depth: Serena with Common,”...
by Forest Parks | Dec 20, 2016 | News
On Monday settlements were announced by the New Orleans Mayor for familes of those who suffered deadly police shootings in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. He also apologized to the victims’ families on behalf of the city and announced that the lawsuits had...
