Africa’s First Solar-Powered Airport Sets Milestone in Renewable Energy
Last month, George Airport in South Africa became the continent’s first solar powered-airport when it launched a clean energy project that in its initial phase, will supply 41% of the airport’s energy demands. This initiative follows the world’s first solar-powered...
365 Black History: May 12th – Smalls Steals Confederate Ship to Escape Slavery, H. Rap Brown & More
The 365 Black History serious is designed to give our community a chance to learn and appreciate the achievement, struggles and experience of our ancestors, inventors, business people, scientific, educators, children and more. On May 12th in Black History 1862 -...
We NEED More Black Teachers: Black Teachers More Likely To Recommend Black Students For Gifted Programs
It's not exactly a secret that racism is institutionalised and being black in school already puts you at so many disadvantages. For that reason more black teachers are needed, this is obvious. Now a study has been published that puts some data to this, saying that:...
DISGRACEFUL: 5-Year-Old Special Needs Boy Made To Hang From Blackboard As Punishment By Teacher
A Georgia grandmother spoke to WSB-TV with avery very disturbing story regarding her 5-year-old special needs son. She says the boy's teacher made him hang from the blackboard by his belt. Tracy Davis says that the principal found her grandson who was hanging from the...
Man Nearly Killed in Shooting Inspired To Become A Doctor and Now Starts A Residency At The Same Hospital That Saved His Life
In 2007 Kevin Morton Jr. was closing up at the Arby's where he worked. A man stepped out of the shadows as he went to get into his car, the robber shot him in the abdomen leaving him a 10% chance of surviving the night. Dr. Dharti Sheth-Zelmanski, who was working...
Financial Literacy Board Game (and Book) Created By Ex-NFL & Oakland Raider Phillip Buchanon
So what has Ex-Oakland Raider Phillip Buchanon been up to? Well it seems his new mission is aimed at the youth and teaching them the importance of financial literacy! He has created a new board game that goes by the name "New Money: Staying Rich". This is a spin off...
He Tried To Intellectualize My Blackness To Make It Easier For His Whiteness…
Back in the 1990s there was a woman, she went by the name of Skin. She fronted a band called Skunk Anansie, a British band. They played soft and hard rock, they trail-blazed and were a mainstay of British popular music. They still play and still are popular today....
Rihanna Launches Global Scholarship Program, Many Eligible, See Who Here…
Rihanna might be a pop princess but behind the scenes she is always at work (I won't go there with that joke!) and her latest announcement is something we can give her a big hand for. Rihanna was born in Barbados and in 2012 she launched the Clara Lionel Foundation to...
African Countries Must Stop Begging for Everything From Foreigners –Annan
It was a moment of truth telling and reality check at the just-concluded 5th Tana High-Level Forum on Security in Africa when former United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Kofi Annan insisted that African countries must stop begging, cap-in-hand, for assistance from...
365 Black History: May 11th – Farrakhan’s Arrival, Births, & the Death of a Literary Legend
The 365 Black History serious is designed to give our community a chance to learn and appreciate the achievement, struggles and experience of our ancestors, inventors, business people, scientific, educators, children and more. On May 11h in Black History 1807 - Ira...
Heroes Without A Choice: Artist Honors Mothers That Lost Their Sons To Police Brutality
A beautiful series of oil paintings have been put together by artist Sylvia Maier to honor the mothers who lost their sons to Police Brutality. [SEE IMAGES BELOW] Here is what the site says about the series: About the Circle of Mothers Series: First let me say how...
WORD: “We Won’t Contribute to Our Own Oppression” – Alabama Inmates Organize Multi-Prison Strike
Did you know that millions are made for the State of Alabama and private organizations from, what some call "slave labor", prison labor. These jobs are extremely low paid or not paid at all and the Free Alabama movement aims to expose this industry and it's unfair...
Church Keeps More Than Half of Funds Donated to the Families of the Charleston Massacre Victims
Emanuel AME Church is making headlines again for a terrible reason. This is a sad and selfish act, especially coming a church. Donations were flowing in to support the families who lost loved one in tragic shooting that occurred last year inside of Emanuel AME Church....
The Legalization of Marijuana: The Rich get Richer and the Poor get Poorer
For years men and boys of color have been incarcerated for selling and using marijuana but now we want to put a suit and white face on it and make it a legal, multimillion dollar business. Law enforcement has been preying on men, in poor communities, for years. Men...
365 Black History: May 10th – Mandela’s Inaguration, Voter Fraud Has Long History in America & First Black Governor
The 365 Black History serious is designed to give our community a chance to learn and appreciate the achievement, struggles and experience of our ancestors, inventors, business people, scientific, educators, children and more. On May 10th in Black History 1837 - PBS...
‘I’ve Been Training For Ferguson My Entire Life’ Says Ferguson’s New Police Chief
Ferguson needs a shakeup after it's recent mess and on Monday the first black permanent police chief was sworn in. 51 year-old Miami police veteran Delrish Moss takes the role. In Miami he was a mahor and he is taking over a department still marred by the shooting of...
Looks Like Janet Jackson Is Pregnant, At 50! Is This Awesome Or Irresponsible?
Woah, looks like Janet Jackson is going to be expecting her first child, if you decode her twitter post "My husband and I are planning our family, so I’m going to have to delay the tour. Please, if you can try and understand that it’s important that I do this now. I...
Greatest Anti-Colonial Speeches of the Independence Era
From South Africa to Rwanda, Eritrea to Ghana, our continent has plenty of inspiring examples of liberation movements that fought fiercely against colonial regimes. For the early African nationalists, support for full decolonization was both a moral imperative and a...
Idris Elba and John Ridley Collaborate in Mini-Series about the Black Power Movement in London
Idris Elba is nothing short of amazing from his role in Beast of No Nation to his role in the HBO Series The Wire, he is truly a talented actor. Now Elba is collaborating with John Ridley, creator of American Crime, to tell a powerful love story that takes place in...
CONGRATULATIONS: Perfect 36 ACT Score From Memphis Teen!
A Memphis teen has us in respect and awe as news spreads across the net that he has scored a perfect 36 on his ACT (American College Testing) college entrance exam. Our hats are off as we bow for this young man. Less than 1 in 1000 achieve a 36 in the math, english...
