by Koba | Feb 25, 2016 | News
A St. Louis jury ruled on Monday that Johnson & Johnson must pay the family of Jacqueline Fox $72 million in damages for the role its products played in the woman’s death from stage-3 ovarian cancer after a two-year battle, St. Louis Today reports. The...
by Koba | Feb 25, 2016 | Blog
A local teacher is helping young boys become young gentlemen. Every Wednesday nearly 60 students at Memminger Elementary dress for success and meet for the Gentleman’s Club. Raymond Nelson is the student support specialist at Memminger Elementary in Downtown...
by Koba | Feb 25, 2016 | Culture, Politics News
With Black History Month nearly in the rearview mirror, many folks in Mississippi are getting ready to celebrate the Confederacy. The Jackson Free Press reports that Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant signed an official governor’s proclamation declaring April...
by Koba | Feb 25, 2016 | Blog
Mark Zuckerberg has been quick to talk about the terrorist attacks in Paris and other world events that affect white people. You rarely, if ever, hear him talk about issues that deals with the black community. But hey, why would you expect him to when he isn’t...
by Koba | Feb 25, 2016 | Africa, Celebrities
As much as the media wants us to hate our brother, all you can do is love him. He saved $50 million dollars before retiring. He has a clothing line. He help teammates with their 401k’s. And now he is going home to Africa. A recently retired Marshawn Lynch just...
by Krystal | Feb 25, 2016 | Blog
“It’s a big world and place to place, it’s pretty different. But no matter where we’re from, the experiences, conversations and images we see have an effect on us–they make us curious. As a child, it’s only natural that, that...
by Krystal | Feb 25, 2016 | Blog
Trouble may be brewing for Clinton that may affect her chances in the 2016 presidential race. On Wednesday, Ashley Williams, an activist for Black Lives Matter, paid $500 to attend a fundraiser for Hillary Clinton in South Carolina. During Clinton’s speech,...
by Candace | Feb 25, 2016 | Blog
A black student at San Jose University in California was subjected to continuous harassment his freshman year at the University. Had it not been for a visit from his parents this treatment more than likely would have continued. In 2013, when the harassment occurred...
by Candace | Feb 25, 2016 | Positivity
If this doesn’t take you back to “A Different World”, I don’t know what will. Philadelphia Printworks, which was discovered by Maryum Pugh, has created a line of six shirts that represent fictional colleges modeled around historic black leaders. The six historians...
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by Forest Parks | Feb 25, 2016 | Blog
Can you imagine from one second meeting a human that can speak English, French, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, Mandarin Chinese, Haitian Creole, Japanese, and sign language fluently? And on top of that can play the piano, violin, guitar, harp, clarinet, conga, drums and...
