by Ordonia Baker | Apr 17, 2014 | Blog
You know when you think something is so great that you say it’s to die for? Well, don’t speak too quickly because that’s exactly what is happening to women in their extreme extent to obtain long, straightened, manageable hair. Seriously, there has been a barrage of...
by Reneegede | Apr 17, 2014 | Opinion
There are many stories floating “over the transom” with regard to financial accountability in Black America, but most people tend to take three major money moguls -Donald Trump, Bill Gates, and Warren Buffett – seriously when it come to advice on how...
by Dominique Thompson | Apr 17, 2014 | Culture
No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women… When black people are talked about the focus tends to be on black men; and when women are talked about the focus tends to be on white women. – Bell Hooks...
by Mo Gamble | Apr 17, 2014 | Blog, Business
Sound the alarm. If the HBCU’s will not respond to the black community needs then we have no choice but to stop support and decrease funding. It’s that time of the year again. Colleges, Universities and institutions of higher learning are eager to publish the racial...
by Adetokunbo Fatoke, Ed.D. | Apr 16, 2014 | News, Positivity
Another violent weekend in Chicago claimed the lives of four and wounded 32 others. Many Chicago neighborhoods are similar to warzones, where residents are being held hostage by the constant threat of danger. Sadly, a blatant disregard for life, hopelessness, and the...
by Samayoch | Apr 16, 2014 | Blog, History
The wellknown 40 acres of land (and a mule was added later) for the enslaved African came from the Union General William T. Sherman. At the end of the Civil War, around 400,000 acres of land in Florida, Georgia and South Carolina were taken from former slave owners...
by Spirit of Thoth | Apr 16, 2014 | Blog, Business
Okay UI here’s the deal… We often on this blog talk about the problems in the Black community but do not offer many solutions. We preach daily on what we are doing wrong, praise the few things we are doing right, but never address what we can do to fix those wrongs....
by Furious | Apr 16, 2014 | Celebrities, News
They say Hip Hop isn’t doing anything for the youth and culture of the black community, but two of the music genre’s biggest names are joining forces with the Chicago Urban League to bring an end to this perception. “Obviously, one of the biggest reasons...
by Reneegede | Apr 16, 2014 | Opinion
Who wants to believe that drug abuse or sheer laziness leads to poverty? Especially when some of the laziest people in the world have never been broke? The studies are in and the popular assumptions about ‘certain people’ seem to be conclusively wrong....
by Hollie Aríel | Apr 15, 2014 | Blog
“People looking at me funny is so common that it doesn’t stick out for me anymore. It’s something I’ve gotten used to… I’ll leave this school and there will be teachers who never knew I was one of the people on the honor...
