by Reneegede | Jun 5, 2014 | Opinion
America, that certain sector of American society, that is, cannot get enough of its addiction to slavery. According to Global Research, March 31, 2014, contributor Vicky Palaez says “[Former] Oregon State Representative Kevin Mannix recently urged Nike to cut its...
by Jackson Ra | Jun 5, 2014 | News
Seattle business owners woke up Tuesday to a city set to have the highest minimum wage in the country, throwing them into uncharted territory. The city council unanimously approved an increase to $15 an hour, which will be phased in over several years. It’s a...
by Furious | Jun 3, 2014 | Blog
Rare color footage of Malcolm X appearing on a television show in Chicago called “City Desk” on March 17, 1963. “My father didn’t know his last name. My father got his last name from his grandfather and his grandfather got it from his...
by Reneegede | Jun 3, 2014 | Opinion
Quote from The Source, by Shay Marie: “During a shoot-around on a road trip before [Jason] Collins signed, reporters asked then-Golden State Warriors Head Coach Mark Jackson his opinion of several big men as possible additions. After someone joked about the...
by UI Pam | Jun 2, 2014 | Celebrities, News
One of the hottest rappers, poets, artists out there, Kendrick Lamar has plenty of bragging rights, he could hand gold off his neck and represent materialism at it’s most pure, however, time and time again, this young man, shows us what it is to be a man. His...
by Reneegede | Jun 2, 2014 | Opinion
Well, it has happened again: Elliott Rodger, another “good guy with a gun” has become the most recent headline news and re-labeled a criminal. Funny thing about those future “bad guys with guns”…by the time they get labeled as such,...
by Randall Barnes | Jun 1, 2014 | A List Categories, Business, News
“Amazon has well passed any expectations of its ability to change distribution and marketing.” – Eric Schmidt Amazon has been in the word news lately for its public dispute with big name publisher Hatchette, the home of authors such as James Patterson and J.K....
by Phyllis Banks Cook | Jun 1, 2014 | Culture
We all should have heard by now that our good and black President has incarcerated more Mexicans than his predecessors. I was listening to the Mellissa Harris-Perry show this morning on this subject. The Mexicans are locked away in jails, indefinitely. I damn near...
by Phyllis Banks Cook | Jun 1, 2014 | Blog
STEM, science, technology, engineering, math, is one of the new hot buttons being promoted as the savior of the under resourced urban educational system. As an eternal optimist, I wanted to believe that if schools adopted a STEM curriculum it would provide a stable...
by Phyllis Banks Cook | May 31, 2014 | Blog
If I was a prisoner in Guantanamo I would be so f****** angry I could not think straight. I empathize with the prisoners but I cannot imagine the sheer level of craziness involved in their daily lives. The United States government has tortured these men for years. We...
