by Reneegede | Jun 24, 2014 | Opinion
[Reporting for News Team One: Southwestern Region] Demetra Jefferson-Wysinger, an Independent Party candidate for the 2014 Texas Gubernatorial campaign, is making waves in the “Big-Hatted State.” (They call it the “Lone Star.”) That’s a...
by Furious | Jun 23, 2014 | Blog
If you see yourself through the gun barrel in the opening credits of a Bond film, then you better have what it takes to act the part in the real world. Unleashing your inner 007 doesn’t just mean wearing a tuxedo and taking your martinis shaken, not stirred. It...
by Greg Bradshaw | Jun 23, 2014 | Culture
There’s no argument that current media is practically devoid of the black experience. Making matters worse, the few representations of the black experience that are allowed to surface focus on ratchetness and buffoonery. Shows like “The Real Housewives of (insert...
by Phyllis Banks Cook | Jun 23, 2014 | Culture
Gil Scott-Heron was a poet, some people consider him the father of rap, a title he did not like according to one source. Whatever you know about Gil Scott- Heron, know that he was a genius. Heron died in May of 2011 after returning to New York from a trip to Europe....
by Jackson Ra | Jun 23, 2014 | News
Barbershops in our community are often referred to as the Black Man’s Country Club. We frequent these establishments almost weekly spending a few minutes in the chair, but enjoy hours of soaking up wonderful conversations about current events, relationships,...
by Phyllis Banks Cook | Jun 22, 2014 | Blog, Culture
It appears that one of the most studied populations on this topic is African Americans. This is just me but, I was thinking they are trying to find out just hard they can f*** us before we capitulate and sign off. This is how I envision their thinking. They have...
by Reneegede | Jun 22, 2014 | Opinion
[REPORTING FOR NEWS TEAM ONE: Southwestern Region] A San Antonio, Texas woman has learned the American value of her son’s reproductive organs. Two years in prison and restrictions on her visitations afterward. Jennifer Vargas, a 34-year old who lived on base at...
by Reneegede | Jun 21, 2014 | Opinion
Let’s jump right into it and spare ourselves a little time and irrelevant over-explanation. There are plenty of folks around who know that we could all write volumes on “Bible myths,” and I think I am one of several who have heard them over and over...
by Patrick Irvine | Jun 20, 2014 | Blog
So as we move forward in our struggles and everyone continues to talk about the need to repeal SYG laws it becomes important to examine what those laws actually are because things can get confusing with all the rhetoric going on. One point of mention here is that...
by Reneegede | Jun 20, 2014 | Opinion
Frank Marshall Davis was born in 1905 in Arkansas City, Kansas, and Stanley Ann Dunham, Barack Obama’s birth mother, was born in Wichita, or Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, depending on whom you ask. In 1942. Before Barack Obama leaves office in January of 2017, we...
