by Ghostndamachine | Apr 24, 2014 | Blog
As I always say, being an ex-con makes me somewhat of a subject matter expert of most things all criminal justicey. Articles like the one analyzed earlier today always make me want to jump through my laptop and choke the person writing this nonsense. I agree,...
by Ghostndamachine | Apr 23, 2014 | Blog
The lie that is told to our people is that we don’t snitch. That crime wouldn’t be so bad in the hood if we would just tell what we see. They even have public service announcement to drive home this nonsense. What is it . . . Just Tell It? Notwithstanding...
by Ghostndamachine | Apr 23, 2014 | Blog
That is just one small example in the overwhelming flood of cases that are prosecuted in this country every day of the working week; and sometimes on the weekend if the court is really clogged up. For the powers that be, there is no incentive, NONE, in reducing crime...
by Claudius West | Apr 23, 2014 | News
Los Angeles, California – The Los Angeles Police Departments highest ranking officials were under fire this past week as the police commission took on the issue of equipment tampering by officers policing black LA neighborhoods. The commission took up the...
by Randall Barnes | Apr 22, 2014 | Blog
“Literature is indispensable to the world. The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way a person looks at reality, then you can change it.” -James Baldwin All my life, I wanted to be a self-made man. I dreamed...
by Randall Barnes | Apr 21, 2014 | Culture, Positivity
“Sometimes you got to hurt something to help something. Sometimes you have to plow under one thing in order for something else to grow.” -Ernest Gaines If anything, I personally believe that having people that doubt your goals is the cornerstone of success. It’s so...
by Reneegede | Apr 20, 2014 | Opinion
Ever hear the saying “I am the bitch you created me to be”? In the age of the same-o, same-o tired beatdown old reality show, the producers and directors of these aimless wanderings are still pawing and clawing at Black women in America to use as leverage...
by Greg Bradshaw | Apr 19, 2014 | Culture
This past April 8th marked the 40th anniversary of Major League Baseball Hall of Famer, and current Atlanta Braves’ senior vice president Hank Aaron becoming baseball’s all-time home run champion. It was on that day in 1974 that Mr. Aaron passed Babe Ruth by hitting...
by Randall Barnes | Apr 18, 2014 | Blog
“The man who has learned to do something better than anyone else, has learned to do a common thing in an uncommon manner, is the man who has a power and influence that no adverse circumstances can take from him.” -Booker T. Washington, The Case of The Negro You know...
by Randall Barnes | Apr 17, 2014 | A List Categories, Business, Culture, Positivity
“You either got time or money, can’t have ‘em both. A n***** with money, don’t have no time. A n***** with time, don’t have no money. We don’t have a lot of time around here ‘cause time is money.” -Big Meech Ever since it was announced that I’d be...
