by Furious | Dec 11, 2014 | News
It appears public pressure and member push back has forced the Executive Board of Alpha Kappa Alpha to buckle under the pressure and reverse their stance on member protest over the injustice facing the African American community, police brutality and racial injustice...
by Reneegede | Dec 11, 2014 | Opinion
UI MEME OF THE DAY, A DAILY SERIES… As we wait for the sound of the next shoe to drop … a little word on Life BEFORE Death There are these two guys sitting together in a bar in the remote Alaskan wilderness. One of the guys is religious, the other is an...
by Furious | Dec 11, 2014 | News
Historic African American fraternities and sororities are having very different responses to the social unrest. Protest, marches and social action in the black community over police brutality, murder and the justification of said actions by the judicial system seem to...
by Furious | Dec 10, 2014 | News
Many in the BGLO, Black Greek Letter Organizations, community and beyond are dismayed and outraged over Delta Sigma Theta’s decision to ask members to not wear the organizations logos or colors during protest on behalf of Eric Garner. One courageous young woman...
by Furious | Dec 10, 2014 | News
When the news first broke on this story, I thought it was a fake. One of those satire websites jokingly misleading the people for a few page views. However, upon deeper research, turns out this nightmare is true. The State of Illinois General Assembly has successfully...
by Reneegede | Dec 10, 2014 | Opinion
UI Meme of the Day, a Daily Series … What a sloppy sloppy sorry lazy job we have done with our gifts and talents on this Planet Earth. The world is in bountiful supply of everything we need to sustain ourselves, to survive, and to reproduce and multiply. These...
by Reneegede | Dec 9, 2014 | Opinion
I hate commenting on a draw-down between two Black men, because as a non-feminist feminist who loves Black men but will not stand for them treating Black women as if they “own” them like a white man thinks he owns Black people, I prefer that the Brothas...
by Furious | Dec 9, 2014 | Blog
Television as we know it is changing. The way televisions look, how they operate, how we watch them, and what we watch on them is almost unrecognizable from how we did things only a decade ago. As streaming services gain wider and wider audiences, the television...
by Reneegede | Dec 9, 2014 | Opinion
UI Meme of the Day, a Daily Series… There is a certain song many of us Black people were raised to sing in the so-called “Christian” church. It was called the “Gloria Patri”, coming out of the Roman Catholic churches. It went a little...
by Furious | Dec 9, 2014 | News
This is becoming a familiar sight in this country. White cops and ex-cops are prosecuted for the killing of animals and not unarmed black men. It is like we are living a nightmare over and over again. This time, it happened in Boulder, Colorado. An ex-police officer...
