by Furious | Sep 3, 2013 | News
Appearing on This Week with George Stephanopoulos, Tavis Smiley made no qualms about contrasting Martin Luther King Jr.’s nonviolent legacy and President Obama’s call for war with Syria. In Smiley’s view, President Obama, who recently spoke at the commemoration of the...
by Furious | Sep 3, 2013 | News
(KTVI) – Jaylen Bledsoe is a 15-year-old sophomore at Hazelwood West High School who started his own tech company that is now worth $3.5 million in just three years. Jaylen sat down with John Pertzborn to explain how he starting building a company when he was only 12....
by Furious | Sep 2, 2013 | News
Unless you have been under a rock the last few months, you have heard many of the comments Cornell West has made about President Obama. He has challenged the President’s policies, the black communities undying devotion to POTUS, and has even called him a global...
by Furious | Sep 2, 2013 | News
When most kids start their freshman year of college, it takes some time to get used to the small, cramped living spaces and to sharing a bathroom with a dozen people. But not James Ward. The Howard University student spent much of his childhood homeless, alternating...
by Furious | Aug 30, 2013 | Blog
I have been sitting back watching this beef (pun intended) over minimum wage develop over the past few years. It has escalated over the past few months and culminated in a massive organized rally, march and walk out by fast food workers across the country. They are...
by Furious | Aug 30, 2013 | Blog
2) Doubling minimum wage undermines all the people that have worked hard to move up the pay scale. Because people are suppose to magically double your salary, what happens to all those people that put in the hours of work, study, long nights of application developing...
by Pret-A-Porte | Aug 30, 2013 | Blog, News, Positivity
As you read this title and saw the featured image, what did you think? If you’re like most people who sees or even hears of a young black man with dreads no less, you thought that he was caught doing some sort of criminal activity. Well I am please to say nope,...
by Spirit of Thoth | Aug 29, 2013 | Blog
Hello UI fam. Most people would think if a person invents a thing, then they should be able to enjoy it without ridicule, or remarks about you betraying your own people… Right? Well, I have another one of life’s internal questions that desperately needs an...
by Furious | Aug 29, 2013 | Blog
What in the world is going on at the Historically Black College, Hampton University? They have made news for a variety of poor decisions this year that has left much of the African American community astonished. Today, we are finding out they are doing it again with...
by Furious | Aug 29, 2013 | Blog
Merging the sharp criticism of critical race and gender theory with comedic know how, poetic lyricism and hip-hop rhyme schemes, Javon Johnson quickly became one of the most awarded, well known spoken word/slam poets. He began writing in 2001 and won back-to-back...
