by Reneegede | Apr 15, 2014 | Opinion
”I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life’s a bitch. You’ve got to go out and kick ass.” – Maya Angelou (b. 1928), U.S. author. originally published in Girl About Town (Oct. 13, 1986). Kicking Ass...
by Randall Barnes | Apr 15, 2014 | Culture
“One thing that Momma taught me when I was little is that outer beauty is important but it isn’t everything. ‘A woman should have more to offer than how good she looks,’ she’d always tell me, ‘The true value of a young black woman is her mind.’” -Aaliyah Anderson,...
by Reneegede | Apr 14, 2014 | Opinion
Quote from Blacknews.com “The National Church of Bey, an organization that recently formed the new religion Beyism (based on pop star Beyoncé Knowles), is a real organization based in Atlanta, Georgia. Although Beyoncé herself is not believed to be a part of it,...
by Spirit of Thoth | Apr 14, 2014 | Blog, Culture
Responsibility… Seems like a basic concept. The definition of the word according to the English dictionary it is “The quality or state of being responsible: as a moral, legal, or mental accountability “This is one of the most basic functions of human beings. We are...
by Reneegede | Apr 14, 2014 | Opinion
Yesterday, the news came out into the social media airwaves about the fast-growing and spreading “Atheist Mega-Church.” What began as a British joke turned into a full-scale worship center for non-believers. As a Believer-in-Action and not a...
by Ghostndamachine | Apr 14, 2014 | Culture
I don’t dress like today’s youth and luckily my era had a different dress code. I, however, am afraid that we are telling our young boys that how you look makes a difference in whether or not you’ll be successful in this country. We all have a...
by David Holmes | Apr 14, 2014 | Blog, Culture, Positivity
Man and Woman are scientifically, spiritually, and biologically eternally interconnected. This has been known since before we can even begin to talk about time, since Ausar and Auset in Ancient Kemet. We know that all of the human species comes from the womb of the...
by Ghostndamachine | Apr 14, 2014 | Culture
Y’all know me, at least those who allow me to speak into their brains with my usual brand of know-it-all bullshit. My opinion is no better than anyone else’s but a helluva lot better than many. I like to think that what I say is from my heart because its...
by Aisha Wadud | Apr 13, 2014 | A List Categories, Blog, Culture
Evolution of the ghetto; see our “ghetto” didn’t start at the end of slavery it started at the beginning when they threw us under the boats. becoming the first mobile ghettos. Then being forced to settle in the fields and shacks they gave us....
by Ghostndamachine | Apr 13, 2014 | Blog
In 2016 we will move beyond the Obama era to a new chapter in Presidential politics. The current political landscape seems to point to a likely showdown between the two most famous families of our current era of politics. The contest possibly may come down to Hilary...