5 Questions To Ask Before Spending The Black Dollar
There is no question that the black community is one of the biggest spending community in the United States. With over a trillion dollars being spent each year, how do we leverage this spending power? So many people come in our neighborhoods, take our money, and do...
WTF: College Student w/ 3.6 GPA Gets 30 Years In Prison.. 5 Days After Graduation For Killing A Woman Over A Man!
The road leading to the women's prison in this rural town is lined with crops as far as the eye can see. And by 6 a.m., 21-year-old Olivia Moody is out with the "field squad," picking okra, squash and beans under the Southern sun, the way her grandmother picked cotton...
D’Angelo on today’s music: ‘Ain’t nobody talking ’bout no real sh*t’
D'Angelo doesn’t mince words when describing how he feels about today’s music. “Ain’t nobody talkin’ bout nothing,” the singer says in a new New York Times video interview. “The music that’s coming out now…everybody’s talking about how many drugs you sold, how many...
Growing A Pair in The Black Communities Across America
If you take the time out sometimes to talk to the older people in your neighborhood, you may discover that they are often a wealth of walking talking living breathing history books and resourceful information. This isn't about the past, or about Black people in...
Church Members Carry Guns To Service With Pastor’s Blessing In Minnesota
For most, church is a place of peace, solace and getting closer to their God. However, in the wake of the South Carolina church massacre, it is just another place black and brown people can be gunned down by the insane. One church in Minneapolis, Minnesota is taking a...
History of the Kemetic Summer Solstice Celebration
What is the significance of the summer solstice? And how can we use this astronomical event to initiate change and growth in our lives as our ancestors did? The day has more meaning than just movement of the earth around the...
About “That Terrorist” Dylann Roof
Dylann Roof, who did not "allegedly" but did "confessedly" shoot and murder nine Black people, most of whom died instantly at the scene, at an AME church in Charleston, South Carolina, is a self-proclaimed terrorist who committed a heinous pre-meditated hate crime....
Malcolm X – Black People Are Afraid of Dying For Their Freedom Against White People
This brother breaks it down like no other. But it is a shame that he speaks decades ago, but it seems as if this was filmed yesterday. We have so many issues in this country, but our mindsets seem to be the main one. In this video, Malcolm X discusses the black...
Remove Racist Flag: Confederate Flag Still Flying Over South Carolina Angers Black Community
The nation and black community mourns the loss of 9 innocent lives during a racist massacre at the AME Church of Charleston, South Carolina this week when a young racist, white male intent on killing black lives, took his gun and ripped the community apart....
Working While Black: Not Even A College Degree and a Life Change Surpassed This Man’s Blackness
When I was 'hanging the circuit' with street people, I ran into a white guy in Arizona (known to the nation now as "Aryanzona"), and listened to his tale of woe about murdering an elderly man when he was 16 and paying for it with all of his teenaged days and half of...
The Responsibility of a Black Journalist
This is going to be a very hard one to write, but someone has to do it. Black news and information reporting, Black journalism, and even Black blogging and vlogging has been seriously lacking something vitally needed in the Black community, and that is accurate and...
#NoShaveZone: New Trend Of Black Women Letting The ArmPit Hair Grow
With the phenomenon of black women wanted to embrace their natural hair, it appears that black women are becoming more comfortable in their skin. That is something to be proud of. However, some black women may be taking this sh*t too far. Leaving hair under your...
Style vs Substance: How Your Appearance Can Destroy Your Retirement
We see it everyday in entertainment. They wear the latest and greatest fashion (which is usually the most expensive stuff on earth). However, these same entertainers are the people that our children want to emulate. Are children become adults that want to emulate them...
Attention All Parents: New App Teaches Kids About Money Management
There is no secret that black people struggle with money management. We love to spend money in every community but our own on stuff we really don't need. I think $400 for a weave is quite ridiculous, but I digress. The real issue is that money management is not taught...
CAPTURED, NOT KILLED: Charleston Church Shooter Dylann Roof In Police Custody
As a black man in America, the first thing that comes to mind is he is alive. The person who walked in and killed nine black church goers is alive to tell his story when so many of us are dead without a weapon or threat to the police. Nevertheless, a known killer of...
Dylann Roof Identified As Killer of 9 At Historical Black Church During Bible Study
Charleston, South Carolina's historic Emanuel AME Church was the scene of a gruesome hate crime attach last night that left 9 dead, few survivors, a community shaken by the tragedy, and a shooter still on the loose, but has recently been identified as 21 year old...
And it doesn’t stop: Ohio cops gets overly aggressive & harms black family during swimming pool altercation
Funny thing is, if not for cell phones, the world would never know about this type of law enforcement abuse. It is starting to feel like law enforcement are taught to be excessive with black people. Almost every week, a new video surfaces a cop killing a black person...
White privilege on steroids: CNN analyst goes down in flames lecturing activist on ‘the black experience
After reading the dialogue below, I have come to the conclusion that some white people are just plain nuts. Unless you are black, you can't live the black experience. I don't care if your children are mixed, if you have black neighbors, or went to a black school, none...
Shocking end for man who killed his pitbull that attacked his daughter
A 4-year-old girl was left with serious injuries after she was attacked by the family dog. The girl's father came to her rescue, but his actions have landed him in big trouble. He says he did what he had to do in the spur of the moment, shooting and killing the dog...
Known as one of the best violinist in the world…. and he is a 4yr old black boy
As black parents, our children are constantly being scolded and made out to be thugs in the media. We rarely see positive propaganda in the media about our children. The media makes sure to show "Gangbangers" on the news every night. Think about the b.s. going on in...
