AKA Reverses Their Stance on Protesting. Waiting on the Deltas
It appears public pressure and member push back has forced the Executive Board of Alpha Kappa Alpha to buckle under the pressure and reverse their stance on member protest over the injustice facing the African American community, police brutality and racial injustice...
UIMD: Have a Happy Thursday
UI MEME OF THE DAY, A DAILY SERIES... As we wait for the sound of the next shoe to drop ... a little word on Life BEFORE Death There are these two guys sitting together in a bar in the remote Alaskan wilderness. One of the guys is religious, the other is an atheist,...
Alphas, Zetas Organizations Implore Social Action While AKAs, Deltas Sit On The Sidelines
Historic African American fraternities and sororities are having very different responses to the social unrest. Protest, marches and social action in the black community over police brutality, murder and the justification of said actions by the judicial system seem to...
Wrong Side of History: Delta Sigma Theta Member DISGUSTED Over Sorority’s Decision on Eric Garner
Many in the BGLO, Black Greek Letter Organizations, community and beyond are dismayed and outraged over Delta Sigma Theta's decision to ask members to not wear the organizations logos or colors during protest on behalf of Eric Garner. One courageous young woman...
Illinois Passes Law That Makes It Illegal To Record Police
When the news first broke on this story, I thought it was a fake. One of those satire websites jokingly misleading the people for a few page views. However, upon deeper research, turns out this nightmare is true. The State of Illinois General Assembly has successfully...
UIMD: Not with a Bang, but with a Whimper…
UI Meme of the Day, a Daily Series ... What a sloppy sloppy sorry lazy job we have done with our gifts and talents on this Planet Earth. The world is in bountiful supply of everything we need to sustain ourselves, to survive, and to reproduce and multiply. These...
RE: Tavis Smiley – It’s Time to Concede This One
I hate commenting on a draw-down between two Black men, because as a non-feminist feminist who loves Black men but will not stand for them treating Black women as if they "own" them like a white man thinks he owns Black people, I prefer that the Brothas handle their...
The Future of TV: How Technology Is Changing the Way You Watch It
Television as we know it is changing. The way televisions look, how they operate, how we watch them, and what we watch on them is almost unrecognizable from how we did things only a decade ago. As streaming services gain wider and wider audiences, the television...
UIMD: World without End…
UI Meme of the Day, a Daily Series... There is a certain song many of us Black people were raised to sing in the so-called "Christian" church. It was called the "Gloria Patri", coming out of the Roman Catholic churches. It went a little sumpin like dis: "Glory be to...
Cop Gets Felony for Killing an Elk, But No Trial for Killing Unarmed, Black Men?
This is becoming a familiar sight in this country. White cops and ex-cops are prosecuted for the killing of animals and not unarmed black men. It is like we are living a nightmare over and over again. This time, it happened in Boulder, Colorado. An ex-police officer...
ALPHABET SOUP EQUALS NO JOBS
I refused to believe that President Obama understood the role of the President and willingly took the job. He has done and will continue to do some things that are totally inhumane. Further, the majority of the laws and programs benefit the oligarchs and plutocrats....
Indiana State Law Legalizes Shooting Unlawful Police Officers
The American police force is clearly out of control with displays of excessive force, stretching of laws governing their actions and flat out acting outside of the law at times, especially when it comes to the black community. Unfortunately, it is something we...
Run, Run, It’s Ebola!!
The corporate media has the populace in an uproar every other month about a new scourge on a nation whose only goal it is to save the ignorant world. These messages that cause wide spread hysteria really feeds into an image the US likes to project. The rest of the...
The Autistic Spectrum Disorder
I have written about the Autistic Spectrum Disorder before. Yesterday, while going to a dancing class, I was a little early and I overheard a conversation between an inspector and a worker. They were discussing a feeding program for the children that attend the...
Cop Shot, Shooter Bruised, But Not Dead. Can You Guess Why?
Columbus, Ohio - While serving a warrant in West Columbus, a Franklin County Sheriff's deputy was shot. The shooting and arrest, not killing, happened on Dec. 5th, 2014. Many are happy the officer survived, but puzzled by the unbalanced treatment of suspects by the...
John Legend & Wife Feed Protesters with Food Trucks
*Standing Ovation* John Legend and his wife, Chrissy Teigen, decided to use their fame, fortune and influence to help those protesting the police murder of Eric Garner and Grand Jury cover up decision of no indictment. The power couple paid for food trucks to be feed...
More Victim Blaming: Peter King says Eric Garner Would Not Have Died from Chokehold Were He Not ‘So Obese’
The basic narrative in America when it comes to the police department killing unarmed, black men is to blame the victim. This happens over and over, but the country never seems to tire of it. This time it came in the form of a member of the House of Representatives....
UIMD: So, What the He77 are Crabs doing in a Barrel?
UI Meme of the Day, a Daily Series... What the hell were the crabs doing in the barrel in the first place? Oh, that's right... They were captured against their will, and put in there to be someone else's lunch, or dinner, or supper ... . True enough, the idea behind...
UIMD: “As-Salaam-Alaikum” “Selah” “Amen” “Shalom” …whatever…
UI Meme of the Day, a Daily Series... I'm not an atheist, everyone knows that. I'm also not a Christian, Muslim/Islamist, Judaist, Shintoist, Jainist, Jehovah's Witness, 7th Day Adventist, Mormon, Catholic, Buddhist, Krishnaist... not even ecumenical,...
UIMD: #WorshipingWhite: Black Folks Under A Spell or Trick of Some Kind, More or Less
UI Meme of the Day, a Daily Series... This is not made to make a point about Black and Afrocentric people exchanging their own souls for the souls of racists, oh no. We can't do to them what they do to us and still come out on the side of right. If it hadn't been for...
