by Gabrielle Marie | Jan 28, 2015 | Blog
For the last few years, there has been a recurring narrative about the “Single Black Woman’s Dilemma”. We’ve all heard the damning statistics – Black women supposedly have a better chance of getting struck by lightning, run over by a Mack truck, or challenged to...
by Reneegede | Jan 27, 2015 | Opinion
In the words of Iowa’s Joni Kay Ernst: “As a young girl, I plowed the fields of our family farm. I worked construction with my dad. To save for college, I worked the morning biscuit line at Hardees. We were raised to live simply, not to waste. It was a...
by Reneegede | Jan 27, 2015 | Opinion
We know that Black women have had historically worse outcomes in nearly all levels of health disparities in society. Be it congestive heart failure, kidney disease, diabetes, sickle cell anemia, lupus, AIDS, what-have-you, and nearly every form of cancer you can name,...
by Freddie Ra | Jan 27, 2015 | Culture
There is an exciting new documentary coming out soon by Gravity films called “Ground Zero” that has the conscious community buzzing. Unfortunately, I cannot find a lot of information on the details of the documentary, but a snippet they’ve released...
by Freddie Ra | Jan 27, 2015 | News
Black people hear it all the time from whites, “if you would just stop playing the race card…” However, this continuously seems to be the card we are dealt in this country and around the world. The latest instance of racism, internal hatred and...
by Shavez Rosenthal | Jan 26, 2015 | Blog
Not too long ago, I was having a conversation with some fellow college students. The subject of the conversation was just classic college student small talk- ranging from teachers, classes, other students and things of that nature. During the midst of the...
by Freddie Ra | Jan 26, 2015 | News
The nightmare continues for California Rapper Brandon Duncan, aka Tiny Doo. In an unbelievable court case that has the country baffled, the so-called gangster rapper is charged with gang conspiracy in the murder of 9 people since April 2013 and faces a sentence of 25...
by Reneegede | Jan 24, 2015 | Opinion
As the looming Cold War between China and the United States intensifies in the mid 2010s, hysteria over the perceived threat posed by Islamic Jihadists in the U.S. becomes known as The Muslim Scare. (Muslims are often referred to as “Jihadis” for their...
by Reneegede | Jan 24, 2015 | Opinion
Katrina Stanfield has emerged from the shattered fray of civil rights injustices across America for being fired by a certain McDonald’s franchisee for being “too black” to work in their store. Here is the letter she wrote that came out of a formed...
by Reneegede | Jan 23, 2015 | Opinion
They need a White History Month because We The Black People of the United States of America know more about their history than they do. It’s that simple. From the time we are born, as Black and Afrocentric persons in America, all we ever hear and all we ever...
