UI Financial: Black Dollars Mission #1

UI Financial: Black Dollars Mission #1

Hello UI. This is the first in a new series on Urban Intellectuals called "UI Financial". In our community there is a lack of economic responsibility as well as a lack of funds. There is also a general idea that money is not important and that we will never have the...

Malcolm X Explains Slavery Destroyed Black History

Malcolm X Explains Slavery Destroyed Black History

Many of our people are lost or confused as to what happened to our connection to our history. There are several things that have happened to us, but chief among them was slavery. Anyone who doubts this is either ignorant of history or refuse to acknowledge the truth...

Kendrick Lamar Class at a Georgia University

Kendrick Lamar Class at a Georgia University

Hip hop artist, Kendrick Lamar, will be part of the subject matter at Georgia Regents University's English composition course. The aim is to add diversity to the course while adding some modern classics to the discussion. Lamar's album "Good kid, m.A.A.d city", along...

Ferguson Police Started Wearing Body Cameras

Ferguson Police Started Wearing Body Cameras

The controversy surrounding the police killing of Michael Brown and the rising concerns of police brutality around the country are leading to some changes. Ground Zero for all of this controversy is Ferguson, MO, and they are experiencing major change in their police...

Body Cameras on Police Lower Public Complaints By 88%

Body Cameras on Police Lower Public Complaints By 88%

There has been lot of discussion coming out of Ferguson, MO, about forcing all police officers to wear body cameras. These are small cameras the size of a stubby cigar that would be worn on the officer and effectively see what they are seeing during a stop or...

Al Sharpton and The Paper Tigers

Al Sharpton and The Paper Tigers

This is a world in which Black people have had to come to grips with a few "facts of our lives" that have been mostly hidden, denied, and reconstructed for the past 400+ years in America. Those facts are tri-fold in nature and substance: I Origins and History II...