Single, Lonely and Desperate? Enough Already
For the last few years, there has been a recurring narrative about the “Single Black Woman’s Dilemma”. We’ve all heard the damning statistics - Black women supposedly have a better chance of getting struck by lightning, run over by a Mack truck, or challenged to a...
Iowa’s Joni Ernst: Family Made Their Own Way … on Big Government Welfare Payments
In the words of Iowa's Joni Kay Ernst: "As a young girl, I plowed the fields of our family farm. I worked construction with my dad. To save for college, I worked the morning biscuit line at Hardees. We were raised to live simply, not to waste. It was a lesson my...
Henrietta Lacks’s Family Wins Groundbreaker: But What is the Real Deal Today with Black Women and Cervical Cancer?
We know that Black women have had historically worse outcomes in nearly all levels of health disparities in society. Be it congestive heart failure, kidney disease, diabetes, sickle cell anemia, lupus, AIDS, what-have-you, and nearly every form of cancer you can name,...
How Church Tithes Are Running Blacks Out of Their Own Communities (Video)
There is an exciting new documentary coming out soon by Gravity films called "Ground Zero" that has the conscious community buzzing. Unfortunately, I cannot find a lot of information on the details of the documentary, but a snippet they've released has people talking....
QVC White Host Mocking of Black Woman’s Natural Hair On Live TV Sparks Outrage (Video)
Black people hear it all the time from whites, "if you would just stop playing the race card..." However, this continuously seems to be the card we are dealt in this country and around the world. The latest instance of racism, internal hatred and disgust for the black...
Should There Be Whites Only Scholarships?
Not too long ago, I was having a conversation with some fellow college students. The subject of the conversation was just classic college student small talk- ranging from teachers, classes, other students and things of that nature. During the midst of the...
Cali Rapper, No Criminal Record, Still Facing Life for Rap Album After Trial. What Happened To Freedom of Speech?
The nightmare continues for California Rapper Brandon Duncan, aka Tiny Doo. In an unbelievable court case that has the country baffled, the so-called gangster rapper is charged with gang conspiracy in the murder of 9 people since April 2013 and faces a sentence of 25...
Republican Playbook: Global Find & Replace-Take Out “Red”, Insert “Muslim”
As the looming Cold War between China and the United States intensifies in the mid 2010s, hysteria over the perceived threat posed by Islamic Jihadists in the U.S. becomes known as The Muslim Scare. (Muslims are often referred to as "Jihadis" for their allegiance to...
McDonald’s: Over-Served and Over-Rated
Katrina Stanfield has emerged from the shattered fray of civil rights injustices across America for being fired by a certain McDonald's franchisee for being "too black" to work in their store. Here is the letter she wrote that came out of a formed and collective...
This February: The Reason (some) White People Need a White History Month…Badly
They need a White History Month because We The Black People of the United States of America know more about their history than they do. It's that simple. From the time we are born, as Black and Afrocentric persons in America, all we ever hear and all we ever learn is...
Sergeant Sues Police Department Over a Black Cop Depicted As A Monkey In Training Video
Images of black people depicted as monkeys is flat offensive. Just about anyone will tell you that in 2015. Anyone except those working inside the San Diego Police Department's training division. Sergeant Arthur Scott is a 10 year veteran of the San Diego Police...
Four Decades Later: “The System Has Made a Mistake”…
“The system made a mistake.” That's how easily the wrongful imprisonment of a Black man who lost 40 years of his life is easily dismissed, not just in North Carolina, but all over the United States of America. Joseph Sledge, convicted in 1976 of the stabbing deaths of...
It Ain’t Vivaldi: The soulful sounds of classical music brought to you by BLACK VIOLIN
Antonio Vivaldi, arguably the best composer and violinist in history, found most of his success in the 18th Century. Given the designation of G.O.A.T over Johann Sebastian Bach only because Bach's own pieces are largely influenced by Vivaldi's concerto works. Both...
YouTube Star GloZell Green Interviews POTUS, Asks About Distrust Between Police and Blacks
After a super successful State of the Union address, President Obama wants to keep the momentum going and get his policies out to the younger voters. The President met with 3 YouTube stars, Bethany Mota, Hank Green, and GloZell Green, to discuss issues important to...
Exposing The Lies About Black Women and Eugenics
You've heard it before: Margaret Sanger, the founder of what is now known as "Planned Parenthood", said this, or she said that. She was a bona fide racist with only one goal in mind: To kill a lot of Black babies and sterilize Black women without their permission or...
She Who Wears The Crown: 2014 Miss Universe Jamaica sparks debate on skin complexion
Recently crowned Miss Universe Jamaica, Kaci Fennell, answers questions about the brown skin complexion debate and the effects on her career. In an interview with ON STAGE Jamaican Entertainment Television, Fennell contends, "There is no standard Jamaican look." It is...
Police Dashboard Camera Show Cops Shooting And Killing a Man With His Hands Up
It's hard to imagine anyone who doesn't believe police brutality isn't out of control. This goes for black and white cops, but here is yet another example. In the city of Bridgeton, New Jersey, two police officers pull over a Jaguar for running a stop sign. One...
Father pleads for changes to State Fair Student Day policies after son’s death at Florida State Fair 2014
Father, Andrew Joseph Jr., continues the fight for his son Andrew Joseph III. "You don't have to be an elected official. You don't have to wear a tie to work. You can be smaller than a fifth grader and see that this whole situation is wrong," Joseph said. "It has to...
The business of running prisons: No# 1, know your target market, No# 2, get them to market
Yes, you are reading it right. Step this way, prisoners wanted to fill beds for America's private prison system. Let's show a big round of applause to the great State of Ohio, for being the first to sell one of the five State ran lockup facilities. Officials...
Delta Sigma Theta Expels Five ‘Sorority Sisters’ Cast Members From the Organization, But Members Still Can’t Wear Letters To Protest
VH1 cut their reality show 'Sorority Sisters' short in it's first season. The show featuring members of various Black Greek Letter Organizations (BGLOs) from around the country acting out in typical reality show fashion. There were three episodes left to air, but it...
