by Furious | Sep 22, 2013 | Blog
If you have hung around Urban Intellectuals for any amount of time, you will understand one of my major gripes with the black community is we don’t understand community economics. However, this article I was reading today let me know, we don’t even...
by Furious | Sep 22, 2013 | News
Many people outside of our community will be shocked by the title of this article, but we are not. Violating the law while “Walking or Driving While Black” is something we come to expect in this country, unfortunately. And those that say we will be...
by Claytron Brown | Sep 21, 2013 | Culture, History, Positivity
Woman. A term that not all women of color have often, and arguably until this day, have been excluded from. Since the inception of this country, it was white women who were the quintessential “women.” They were its ideal standard of beauty, chastity, and purity. This...
by Claytron Brown | Sep 21, 2013 | Culture, History, Positivity
“Dr. Clenora Hudson-Weems: “Africana Womanism is a term I coined and defined in 1987 after nearly two years of publicly debating the importance of self-naming for Africana women. Why the term ‘Africana Womanism’?…. The first part of the coinage,...
by Furious | Sep 21, 2013 | News
Everyone has been to a restaurant with some rowdy, loud children in it. However, bet you haven’t been to one when the police were called on the parents of these children, have you? This is exactly what happened to Eli Gau and his wife Lillian Maliti when...
by Claytron Brown | Sep 21, 2013 | Blog, Culture, History, Positivity
Africans were the first to inhabit the earth. Fossil records as well as DNA analysis give scientific evidence to support this fact. Therefore, the first woman to give birth was a Black African woman. It is from us that all humans have come. The other races of...
by Spirit of Thoth | Sep 20, 2013 | Business
Okay my UI followers… I am angry. I am angry at the people who are crying and yelling foul over this whole food stamp fiasco. If you don’t already know by now the US government has cut the food stamp program by 40 billion dollars. People are now in an uproar and are...
by Furious | Sep 20, 2013 | News
When I tell you your Government don’t give a damn about you, i’m wondering how long is it going to take for you to pay attention. Not that all of you are on welfare or foodstamps, but we all know someone that was at some point or we needed to lean on the...
by Furious | Sep 19, 2013 | Business, News
This is what i’m talking about. Positive, powerful black women out here leading the charge for our future and the next generation. Giving them something to strive for while giving those ready, willing and able employment. Linda McGill Boasmond is the only black...
by Spirit of Thoth | Sep 19, 2013 | Blog
Well UI… Yet again we have been fooled into believing something that we were made to by America’s media. Below you will see 3 separate pictures. These pictures are examples of what America would see as “Safe” black men. I may be older than some of you but I have...
