by Koba | Jun 22, 2015 | Blog
There is no question that the black community is one of the biggest spending community in the United States. With over a trillion dollars being spent each year, how do we leverage this spending power? So many people come in our neighborhoods, take our money, and do...
by Koba | Jun 22, 2015 | Culture
The road leading to the women’s prison in this rural town is lined with crops as far as the eye can see. And by 6 a.m., 21-year-old Olivia Moody is out with the “field squad,” picking okra, squash and beans under the Southern sun, the way her...
by Koba | Jun 22, 2015 | Culture
D’Angelo doesn’t mince words when describing how he feels about today’s music. “Ain’t nobody talkin’ bout nothing,” the singer says in a new New York Times video interview. “The music that’s coming out now…everybody’s talking about how many drugs you sold, how...
by Reneegede | Jun 22, 2015 | Opinion
If you take the time out sometimes to talk to the older people in your neighborhood, you may discover that they are often a wealth of walking talking living breathing history books and resourceful information. This isn’t about the past, or about Black people in...
by Freddie Ra | Jun 22, 2015 | News
For most, church is a place of peace, solace and getting closer to their God. However, in the wake of the South Carolina church massacre, it is just another place black and brown people can be gunned down by the insane. One church in Minneapolis, Minnesota is taking a...
by LT Davison | Jun 21, 2015 | Culture, History
What is the significance of the summer solstice? And how can we use this astronomical event to initiate change and growth in our lives as our ancestors did? The day has more meaning than just movement of the earth around the...
by Reneegede | Jun 21, 2015 | Opinion
Dylann Roof, who did not “allegedly” but did “confessedly” shoot and murder nine Black people, most of whom died instantly at the scene, at an AME church in Charleston, South Carolina, is a self-proclaimed terrorist who committed a heinous...
by Freddie Ra | Jun 20, 2015 | Culture, History
This brother breaks it down like no other. But it is a shame that he speaks decades ago, but it seems as if this was filmed yesterday. We have so many issues in this country, but our mindsets seem to be the main one. In this video, Malcolm X discusses the black...
by Freddie Ra | Jun 19, 2015 | Blog
The nation and black community mourns the loss of 9 innocent lives during a racist massacre at the AME Church of Charleston, South Carolina this week when a young racist, white male intent on killing black lives, took his gun and ripped the community apart....
by Reneegede | Jun 19, 2015 | Opinion
When I was ‘hanging the circuit’ with street people, I ran into a white guy in Arizona (known to the nation now as “Aryanzona”), and listened to his tale of woe about murdering an elderly man when he was 16 and paying for it with all of his...
