by Zee Jay Johnson | Jul 8, 2013 | Blog
There has been an environment of poverty surrounding our people for too long. We are wired to be welfare-minded. But I’m writing this because it isn’t anyone else’s fault but ours. We have allowed laziness to overshadow our industrial essence. We have allowed this to...
by Tamara Halliburton | Jul 7, 2013 | Blog
I have to admit, I have not been watching the Zimmerman trial. Not because the trial is not important, but because I have little faith this country will convict a white-ish man for killing a Black child. But I digress… But when I heard all the commotion around...
by Claytron Brown | Jul 7, 2013 | Blog
Vanity Slaves pt. 2 – Kendrick Lamar feat Gucci Mane Vanity, the plague on the consciousness of our people. It is not only endemic to just Black Americans, but all Americans. However, because of the nature of this nation’s white supremacist/racist media,...
by Sherita Pitts | Jul 7, 2013 | Blog
List of books by several phenomenal Writers. Great Reads for the Month of July! “There is no friend as loyal as a book.” Ernest Hemingway Infants-Preschoolers 1.A Baby Just Like Me -Susan Winter 2.Ballerina Girl- Kirsten Hall 3.Something Beautiful-Sharon Dennis...
by paudre-davis | Jul 5, 2013 | Blog
Society has given the impression that it’s OK! to be a single mothers and that info goes into the ears of many Boys. Now it might not be your belief however, in Gen 2;24/Eph 5:31 a MAN will leave his Mother & Father to be joined as 1 with his Wife. Now with...
by Nathan McTeer | Jul 5, 2013 | Blog, Celebrities
For years know Bill Cosby has been spreading the same doctrine of black self improvement an that all of our problems stem from our own misguidance. They’re several flaws in this theory and I will hope to illuminate them. In a recent interview Bill goes on a...
by Halima Ahmed | Jul 5, 2013 | Blog
I. The mere mention of it Is enough to evoke An Intertwined and raw emotions Championed by excruciating pain and fear Knees tremble And, legs shut close In pursuit of protecting That which has already been lost Often she wonders, if the sleep Of the woman who...
by Zee Jay Johnson | Jul 4, 2013 | Blog
I keep hearing all these news headlines about how the single epidemic is destroying the black family. But really is it that serious? Today’s society is so much more diverse than what media tries to get us to believe. It’s propaganda. The CNN specials about how 75% of...
by Kenya | Jul 4, 2013 | Blog
I remember when Robert “Bob”Johnson, a former lobbyist for the cable industry, launched BET back in 1980 (I may be telling my age but it’s all good) as a direct response to MTV which, at the time, would not play music videos made by people of color...
by jerryl | Jul 3, 2013 | Blog, News
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta to go on trial in November The war crimes trial of Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta will begin on Nov 12, judges at the International Criminal Court ruled on Thursday, accepting his lawyers’ request for more time to prepare his...
