by Forest Parks | Jul 1, 2016 | Celebrities, Culture, News
Gabby Douglas won gold at the London 2012 Olympics in Gymnastics and is preparing for her second run in 2016. Simpne Biles is the rising star who is steady on the heels of her teammate and heading for the Olympics this year two. Together, the black teens are a force...
by Forest Parks | Jul 1, 2016 | Celebrities, News
I’m about done with Stacey Dash and her continued ignoring of serious issues facing black people in America and all over the world. In her latest piece for patheos.com she says that Jesse Willams’ inpiring #BETAwards speech was racist and attacked white...
by Forest Parks | Jul 1, 2016 | Culture, Positivity
It must have been heartbreaking when Todd Taylor’s daughter told him he couldn’t call her princess anymore because “I love it when you call me a princess but I know I am not really a real one … Real princesses were vanilla and I can’t...
by Forest Parks | Jul 1, 2016 | Culture
Ifetayo Ali-Landing showed at just age 6 how good she was with a cello in her arms. She was just 3 when she started playing the violin but at 4 she begged her mother to switch to the cello because she liked it’s mellow sounds! She studied at the Hyde Park Suzuki...
by Forest Parks | Jun 30, 2016 | News
The family of Kendrick Johnson feel the teen’s death was murder despite being ruled an accident by Lowndes County Coroner. Johnson’s body was found rolled up in school wrestling mat, this happened in in Valdosta, Georgia and many feel there is some kind of cover...
by Forest Parks | Jun 30, 2016 | Blog
WuTang Clan have songs and lyrics that hit hard to this day, progressive, fresh and full of life they lit up the 90s and 2000s with socially conscious gangsta rap (yeah, an oxymoron in some ways). Of course hip was the voice of a generation and spoke largely to a...
by Forest Parks | Jun 30, 2016 | Celebrities, News
Compton rapper Kendrick Lamar is going from strength to strength. His community work is outstanding, his outspoken views on African American and disenfranchised issues makes me give him nothing but respect. And even when he is charged with designing a new pair of...
by Forest Parks | Jun 30, 2016 | Celebrities, News
In 2012 Jessica Williams became The Daily Show’s very first African American female correspondent. For four years she has been making us laugh with on point observations and dry wit. Like many other Daily Show talents it was clear she wouldn’t stay forever so...
by Forest Parks | Jun 30, 2016 | Positivity
Kids are the world to a parent and at times they are so cute that your senses just can’t handle it! When Nina was trying to goto work her adorable baby girl had other plans. Nina was filming and one of the most adorable videos EVER was born. I don’t think...
by Face2Face Africa | Jun 29, 2016 | Blog
Cameroonian brothers Rene and Clifford Bouma are living against the stigma of being albinos in Africa by using their rap music to raise awareness about the discrimination and social ills persons living with albinism face on a daily basis. Performing as rap duo White...
