“Gone In An Instant,” How Antoine Walker Blew Over $100 Million Dollars
A new documentary will be coming out soon called "Gone In An Instant". It is the story of how professional basketball player Antoine Walker made and lost over $100 million dollars doing the wrong things with his money. This is Walker getting out into the media to tell...
Black 11 Year Old’s IQ Is Higher Than Einstein
Black is beautiful. Black is intelligence. Black is excellence. And thanks to an 11 year old boy from the United Kingdom, we have just one more reminder of the genius that lie inside of our children. Hopefully, more stories like this will surface and encourage more...
Black University President Gives Up $90,000 In Salary So Minimum Wage Workers Can Have a Raise
File this under something you rarely hear. The interim president at Kentucky State University decided to forgo $90,000 of his $350,000 a year salary to the lowest paid workers on campus. This according to the Lexington herald- Leader. His name is Raymond Burse. People...
Introspection: About “The Seventy-Two Percenters”
Disclaimer: This article is by no means intended to promote or encourage single Black women as the "new Mom & Dad," it is meant to delve into single parenting amongst African-American women and all women of color when it comes to the truth ABOUT the truth. This is...
A couple of days ago, I was having lunch with a friend. We were having an intellectually stimulating conversation with topics that ranged from hip-hop to social caste systems to history. Definitely learned alot from that conversation. In the midst of discussing the...
10 Reasons The Side Chick Phenomenon Seems To Be Growing In The Black Community
This opinion could get me into some hot water with some folks, but it is something that has been bubbling up inside of me for quite some time. It seems quite apparent to me, the black culture (or what is left of it) is going not moving in the right direction and we...
This Revolution is Being Digitized
It's time to take a little Black American self-assessment test. We used to say the "Revolution" would not be televised, thank you and rest in power Gil Scott Heron: Deet- Deet- dot- dot- dot- deet- deet. Right now, in today's so-called "Black Conscious Movement," it...
11 Reasons All Black Women Should Wear Natural Hair Styles According To This Black Man
This article is a follow up to a post I made on the UI Facebook page encouraging black women to "Grow Their Mane." I tried to make it abundantly clear that people are going to do what they please, but this is just my opinion, wish and desire that every black woman...
Somebody Is Watching You!
Did you know the mannequins in your favorite store can listen to your conversations and take your picture? The minute you enter the mall you are being tracked. The driveways into the mall track your license plate. All of your information is being stored in a massive...
Usher’s New Look
Grammy Award winning artist Usher has raised another $1,000,098,000.00 (One million ninety-eight thousand dollars) for his long-running organization, Usher's "New Look." The foundation takes youth from grade eight to post-secondary and prepares them for real world...
Mid-terms 2014: What’s Really Wrong with the GOP’s “Tea Party” Faction
It's an election year (Mid-terms 2014) and all of the snakes and serpents of olden times and ancient Eden raise their heads out of their dens and nests every election year, sniffing the air looking for trouble like old Beelzebul himself. They often come with apples or...
GET OUT: Mugabe Tells Remaining White Farmers To Leave Zimbabwe
This week, the President of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe reiterated his mandate that all white farmers had to give up their land and leave the country without compensation. Zimbabwe is not a place for white land owners. Period. According to AllAfrica, Mugabe was speaking at...
All I Do Is Win w/Rapper & Mixtape Cypher Winner Que
“Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing.” -Vince Lombardi Like it or not, the world thrives on competition. We all have an inherent desire to be the best in the world at what we do. Our desire to be at the top of our field is the fuel that moves and pushes us....
Domestic Violence and Abuse in Black America
Ah, it wasn't that long ago that MSNBC's Toure got in some deep muckety-muck for using the words "The power of whiteness," in response to a transgender "Jewish" female who said that her ancestors survived the Holocaust, came to America with "nothing" and "made it."...
8 Tips for Reducing the Stress of Student Life
No matter whether you’re learning in a traditional or online classroom, there are ways to combat the stress of being a student. With that being said, here are eight tips for reducing the stress of student life. Sleep So You Can Study You need a restful seven and a...
9 Year Old Children Smoking Weed is Part of Black Culture
Interesting that Steven A. Smith found himself in hot water for poor word choice while basically articulating something that most of us agree with (it's not okay for women to hit or antagonize men just like it's not okay for men to EVER hit or antagonize women), but...
Black Violin: Dynamic Duo on Strings Finds Salvation in Music
Wil (Wilner) Baptiste said that he and his partner, Kevin Sylvester, came into their career as violinists in different ways. "Kevin used to get in trouble in school and his mother forced him to take a Saturday music class, which is where he learned to play, but when I...
Where do the ‘Monolithic’ We Go from Here?
It's been interesting. To say the least. In the past few months, many of us Black folk throughout America have proudly managed to go on to mainstream social media, like Facebook and others, and shut down quite a few white racist operative "Tea Party"-ish groups who...
New Private Entities Invest in White House Initiative “My Brother’s Keeper”
Prologue Two hundred million over five years does not promise to knock a 'small dent' in President Obama's White House Initiative "My Brother's Keeper," but thanks to another $100 million -a recent booster shot investment- we not only observe President Obama gliding...
“More Than A Mother”: Emotional Incest In Black Culture
Hello UI. Again the Spirit of Thoth is upon me and I feel the need to speak to the UI world. This post is more informational than anything else. There is a growing awareness of "ratchet" pictures of African American parents engaging in acts that only pedophiles would...
