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This Man’s Mobile Barbershop Is Making Waves In Social Media, But Might Be a Great Business Opportunity | Would You Support?

This Man’s Mobile Barbershop Is Making Waves In Social Media, But Might Be a Great Business Opportunity | Would You Support?

by Freddie Ra | Oct 7, 2015 | Blog | 0 Comments

Ingenuity is a trait I love in entrepreneurs. Identifying a need and being willing to take the plunge to supply the market with that need better than anyone else. Well, anyone that has ever waited a few hours in a barbershop on a Friday or Saturday to get a fresh cut...

Love It: Fat Joe Posts Father-Son Picture Of His Special Needs Kid…The Support He Gets Goes Viral!

Love It: Fat Joe Posts Father-Son Picture Of His Special Needs Kid…The Support He Gets Goes Viral!

by Koba | Oct 7, 2015 | Celebrities, Culture, News | 0 Comments

Some people are ashamed to talk about their special needs children or even share experiences with others about their special needs children. The reality is that things will never be "regular". Especially in the age of social media, "judging people" has went to another...

WTF: Georgia Man Loses Job After Racist Facebook Post, Feels He Is The Victim | Can You Believe This?

WTF: Georgia Man Loses Job After Racist Facebook Post, Feels He Is The Victim | Can You Believe This?

by Koba | Oct 7, 2015 | Culture, Politics News | 0 Comments

Gerod Roth, who is white, was fired from the Polaris Marketing Group in Atlanta last week after posting a picture with his co-worker’s Black child to Facebook. Gerod’s Facebook friends made insulting and racist remarks to the picture that has since gone viral, Gerod...

Taye Diggs Writes Second Children’s Book for His Biracial Son Called ‘Mixed Me!’ | Good Idea?

Taye Diggs Writes Second Children’s Book for His Biracial Son Called ‘Mixed Me!’ | Good Idea?

by Koba | Oct 7, 2015 | Celebrities, Culture, News | 0 Comments

Taye Diggs has taken a lot of flack lately for dressing up as a woman on broadway. However, maybe he is redeeming himself with his latest venture. Taye Diggs absolutely adores his 6-year-old son and wants the world for him. So, in a society in which it is sometimes...

50 Cent Blames Empire’s 3 Million Viewer Ratings Drop on Too Much ‘Gay Stuff’. | Do You Think He Is Right?

50 Cent Blames Empire’s 3 Million Viewer Ratings Drop on Too Much ‘Gay Stuff’. | Do You Think He Is Right?

by Koba | Oct 6, 2015 | Blog, Celebrities, News | 0 Comments

From Scandal to Empire, it seems like being gay is the "in thing" these days. On almost every television show, a gay character is exuding his right to be "gay" and it seems that no one is daring to challenge this. Well, then there is Curtis Jackson aka 50 Cent. Empire...

Prison Debate Team Defeats the Harvard Debate Team To Prove Universities Don’t Hold Monopoly on Intelligence

Prison Debate Team Defeats the Harvard Debate Team To Prove Universities Don’t Hold Monopoly on Intelligence

by Freddie Ra | Oct 6, 2015 | News | 0 Comments

There is a strong segment of the population that bought into the notion that intelligence and education only lies in the hallways of prominent institutions, universities such as Harvard. However, a recent debate dispels this notion. In September of 2015, three members...

Can You Believe This Man Earns Up to $1,000 a Week Waiting In Lines for Other People? | The Uber for Line Waiting

Can You Believe This Man Earns Up to $1,000 a Week Waiting In Lines for Other People? | The Uber for Line Waiting

by Freddie Ra | Oct 6, 2015 | Business, News | 0 Comments

Entrepreneurs are an amazing brand of people. While others sit around and complain about there not being enough jobs in the community, they see a problem, then set out to solve it. This is exactly how the Uber of Line waiting business model started. Robert Samuel is...

Stephon Marbury Said  “Jordan Has Been Robbing the Hood..kids dying for shoes and the only face this dude makes is I don’t care.”

Stephon Marbury Said “Jordan Has Been Robbing the Hood..kids dying for shoes and the only face this dude makes is I don’t care.”

by Freddie Ra | Oct 6, 2015 | Celebrities | 0 Comments

You might remember Marbury from his days of heating up the NBA courts with his And1 Mix Tape, street ball style. His crazy handles, high energy game that never seemed to disappoint the fans. However, you may not remember Marbury attempted to change the gym shoe...

Man who filmed Eric Garner chokehold video claims jail guards poisoned his food

Man who filmed Eric Garner chokehold video claims jail guards poisoned his food

by Koba | Oct 5, 2015 | Culture, News | 0 Comments

Ramsey Orta, the man who filmed the now infamous video of Eric Garner being put in a chokehold and killed by NYPD, says prison guards were putting rat poison in the food. Due to all of the bad publicity that his video brought on the NYPD, he believes they are looking...

34 Year old Woman’s Botched Butt Implant Surgery Death Ruled a Homicide by Medical Examiner

34 Year old Woman’s Botched Butt Implant Surgery Death Ruled a Homicide by Medical Examiner

by Freddie Ra | Oct 5, 2015 | News | 0 Comments

Kelly Mayhew, age 34, was the victim of botched butt implants in the United States this past June. Mayhew drove from Maryland to New York with her mother for the surgery. However, she didn’t leave the butt implant surgery with her life. The Medical Examiner...

Texas Mom Calls Out Textbook Publisher for Rewriting the History of Slavery As Immigration

Texas Mom Calls Out Textbook Publisher for Rewriting the History of Slavery As Immigration

by Freddie Ra | Oct 5, 2015 | Modern History, News | 0 Comments

We thought this story was a fake because who in their right mind would attempt to relabel slavery as immigration in 2015? Apparently, the publishing giant McGraw-Hill thought no one would care or pay attention if they started rewriting history, so they did this very...

Omarion Canceled Appearance At London Nightclub After Black Women Were Denied Entrance for Being “Too Dark” & “Overweight”

Omarion Canceled Appearance At London Nightclub After Black Women Were Denied Entrance for Being “Too Dark” & “Overweight”

by Freddie Ra | Oct 5, 2015 | Celebrities | 0 Comments

Worldwide unity in the black community has been a call we have longed for that seems to be making some headway lately among many in the celebrity community. Last week, singer Omarion joins the ranks of respected black people who will not tolerate blantant racism for a...

Ivy League Engineering Student Jonah Hepzibah Raises More Than $20,000 For Tuition In Two Days

Ivy League Engineering Student Jonah Hepzibah Raises More Than $20,000 For Tuition In Two Days

by Claudius West | Oct 3, 2015 | Blog, Positivity | 0 Comments

On a sunny spring day this past May in the clock tower courtyard of the Santa Monica school that he would soon transfer from Cornel Engineering student Jonah Okike-Hepzibah spoke to me about being a young man who once desired to make the gadgets that he saw in movies....

Did You Know the Buy Black Empowerment Movement is Working in Kansas City? | Here Is How

Did You Know the Buy Black Empowerment Movement is Working in Kansas City? | Here Is How

by Koba | Oct 2, 2015 | Culture, Positivity | 0 Comments

The African-American community is being urged not to do any shopping Monday unless it's with a black-owned business. It's part of "Blackout Monday," a movement organized by the National Black United Front in response to civil unrest in Ferguson, Mo. Workers at Leon's...

Is Farrakhan Right About Black Christian Pastors Being ‘Pimps’ and ‘Whores’?

Is Farrakhan Right About Black Christian Pastors Being ‘Pimps’ and ‘Whores’?

by Koba | Oct 2, 2015 | Culture | 0 Comments

Black pastors have rejected and forsaken the younger generation in their churches, Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan said in his latest attack on black church leaders Sept. 29. In another video posted on his Facebook page, which may have been recorded as early as...

Women Kicked Off Napa Valley Wine Training for ‘Laughing While Black’ File $11M Racial Discrimination Suit

Women Kicked Off Napa Valley Wine Training for ‘Laughing While Black’ File $11M Racial Discrimination Suit

by Freddie Ra | Oct 2, 2015 | Blog | 0 Comments

These women were embarrassed, degraded and two of them have lost their jobs as a result of this Napa Valley train company.  It is great to see these women ban together and decide to fight back against the racist culture that is readily accepted in everyday America....

The Supremacy Factor: Jamaica should ‘move on from painful legacy of slavery’, Says British Prime Minister

The Supremacy Factor: Jamaica should ‘move on from painful legacy of slavery’, Says British Prime Minister

by Koba | Oct 1, 2015 | Culture | 0 Comments

David Cameron has called for Jamaica and the UK to “move on” from the deep wounds caused by slavery but ducked official calls for Britain to apologize for its role or pay reparations. Speaking to the Caribbean country’s parliament, the prime minister struck a defiant...

Did You Know: Oprah Donates $12 Million to New Smithsonian Black History Museum

Did You Know: Oprah Donates $12 Million to New Smithsonian Black History Museum

by Koba | Oct 1, 2015 | Culture, Positivity | 0 Comments

Much can be said about entertainers in our community that do not support our community. They take much from us but give nothing. That is not the case with Oprah Winfrey. Well what is she doing that is show great? She has donated $12 million to the Smithsonian’s...

Another Milestone for Serena Williams as She Ties Evert for # of Weeks Ranked #1 Tennis Player in the World

Another Milestone for Serena Williams as She Ties Evert for # of Weeks Ranked #1 Tennis Player in the World

by Freddie Ra | Oct 1, 2015 | Celebrities | 0 Comments

To say it has been a good week for tennis superstar Serena Williams would be an understatement. The current world’s number 1 ranked female tennis player turned 34 years old, but also hit another major milestone in her historic career. Serena Williams first topped the...

Hip Hop Legend Nas To Receive Harvard’s W.E.B. DuBois Which Honors Those in the Field of African American Studies

Hip Hop Legend Nas To Receive Harvard’s W.E.B. DuBois Which Honors Those in the Field of African American Studies

by Freddie Ra | Oct 1, 2015 | Celebrities | 0 Comments

The life and times of Nasir Jones, aka Nas, has been scrolled in the history of hip hop. The hip hop legend has penned some of the most influential and mind bending tracks the music industry has ever seen, but his influence on African American culture cannot be...

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