by Forest Parks | Sep 19, 2016 | News
In 2013 Officer Marco Proano shot at a car of teens as they backed away from him. Whether they were right or wrong to do so, that was not a danger to him and dashcam footage caught the whole event. At the time of the incident the police union supported him as he was...
by Forest Parks | Sep 19, 2016 | News, Politics News
The storm started by Kaepernick is not calming, infact it’s spreading, more and more people and entire groups are growing courage to kneel down, to “misbehave” and bring light to racial injustice. This simply cannot be ignored! It’s exciting to...
by Forest Parks | Sep 19, 2016 | News
Sandra Bland’s death in police custody was yet another wrongful and pointless death at the hands of those supposed to serve and protect us. However you look at it, she simply should not be dead. And the fight between lawyers, the family and the state has been...
by Forest Parks | Sep 19, 2016 | News
At 8 years old Thomas Moore asked his mom “Why is that boy bald”. His mom let him know that the ‘boy’ in the video they was watching was actually a girl and she had cancer. Thomas didn’t know what cancer was, so his mom had some more...
by Candace | Sep 18, 2016 | Positivity
Chance the rapper is doing his part to increase the black vote by offering his fans voter registration at his new tour. He has teamed up with NAACP to ensure that all his fans and other American citizens receive registration forms. Chance the rapper made the...
by James Washington | Sep 17, 2016 | Business, Celebrities
Tauheed Epps, famously known as 2Chainz, is one of the best selling rappers in the hip hop market and clearly an astounding business man that never gets his credit. The 38-year old rapper from College park, Georgia has produced several single, albums and...
by James Washington | Sep 17, 2016 | Blog
Natasha Marin, a 37-year old Seattle-based conceptual artist, has launched a website called Reparations aimed at helping to solve social injustice. As Marin said, the site encourages sharing by exploring “white privilege”. People of Color can request for any kind of...
by James Washington | Sep 16, 2016 | Culture, Did You Know
Claudette Colvin is undoubtedly one of the renowned pioneers of civil right activists in the history of African American civil rights movements. On March 2, 1955, she refused to move from her seat on a Montgomery bound segregated bus. Her sentiments were, she had paid...
by Forest Parks | Sep 16, 2016 | News
Doing the right thing often results in harassment and bad returns on a person it seems! It makes things hard, as Christopher LeDay, the man who filmed the death of Alton Sterling at the hand of police officers, found out. It seems these men and women who are supposed...
by Forest Parks | Sep 16, 2016 | News
The University of Ghana’s Leon campus had a statue of Mahatma Ghandi earlier this year and now many are calling for it’s removal, spearheaded by former Director of the Institute of African Studies, Professor Akosua Adomako Ampofo. Although celebrated...
