Michael Jordan: The Nike Prison Industrial Complex Connection
America, that certain sector of American society, that is, cannot get enough of its addiction to slavery. According to Global Research, March 31, 2014, contributor Vicky Palaez says “[Former] Oregon State Representative Kevin Mannix recently urged Nike to cut its...
Seattle Washington: First To Raise Minimum Wage To $15 an Hour
Seattle business owners woke up Tuesday to a city set to have the highest minimum wage in the country, throwing them into uncharted territory. The city council unanimously approved an increase to $15 an hour, which will be phased in over several years. It's a...
Malcolm X Explains Our History Was Destroyed By Slavery
Rare color footage of Malcolm X appearing on a television show in Chicago called "City Desk" on March 17, 1963. "My father didn't know his last name. My father got his last name from his grandfather and his grandfather got it from his grandfather who got it from the...
Mark Jackson and Why Black Folks Don’t Much Care for the ‘G-Word’
Quote from The Source, by Shay Marie: "During a shoot-around on a road trip before [Jason] Collins signed, reporters asked then-Golden State Warriors Head Coach Mark Jackson his opinion of several big men as possible additions. After someone joked about the signing...
Kendrick Lamar Buys Modest House Instead of Mansion
One of the hottest rappers, poets, artists out there, Kendrick Lamar has plenty of bragging rights, he could hand gold off his neck and represent materialism at it's most pure, however, time and time again, this young man, shows us what it is to be a man. His...
Firearms and That Very False Sense of Security
Well, it has happened again: Elliott Rodger, another "good guy with a gun" has become the most recent headline news and re-labeled a criminal. Funny thing about those future "bad guys with guns"...by the time they get labeled as such, it's too late. An on-going debate...
How Amazon Took Control Of The Book Industry
“Amazon has well passed any expectations of its ability to change distribution and marketing.” - Eric Schmidt Amazon has been in the word news lately for its public dispute with big name publisher Hatchette, the home of authors such as James Patterson and J.K....
I Damn Near Almost Forgot To Breathe
We all should have heard by now that our good and black President has incarcerated more Mexicans than his predecessors. I was listening to the Mellissa Harris-Perry show this morning on this subject. The Mexicans are locked away in jails, indefinitely. I damn near...
Do Not Believe The Hype About STEM Schools
STEM, science, technology, engineering, math, is one of the new hot buttons being promoted as the savior of the under resourced urban educational system. As an eternal optimist, I wanted to believe that if schools adopted a STEM curriculum it would provide a stable...
They Stopped Talking About Guantanamo Bay Until…
If I was a prisoner in Guantanamo I would be so f****** angry I could not think straight. I empathize with the prisoners but I cannot imagine the sheer level of craziness involved in their daily lives. The United States government has tortured these men for years. We...
High School Graduations: What’s The Big Deal?
“Imagine 4 years. Four years, two suicides, one death, one rape, two pregnancies (one abortion), three overdoses, countless drunken antics, pantsings, spilled food, theft, fights, broken limbs, turf wars–every day, a turf war–six months until graduation and no one...
Judge Tells Police Officer, “Your testimony is a stretch . . .” | In other words, “You’s a LIE!”, and “CASE DISMISSED”.
[Sometimes it is necessary to flash back to a moment when the law actually works for the people.] Last fall, a St. Petersburg Florida police officer pulls over a green sport utility vehicle for a rolling right-hand turn at a red light according to the Tampa Bay Times....
Balancing the scales with the “Death Penalty”!
REPORTING FOR NEWS TEAM ONE Covering the U.S. Southern Region: Louisiana, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, North and South Carolina Recently the states of Tennessee and Florida have debated on re-instituting the electric chair for delivering a death...
When the News Becomes the News
[REPORTING FOR NEWS TEAMS ONE for the Mid-West Region: N/S Dakota, Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, Montana, and Alaska] San Antonio - Telemundo news reporter Jorge Enrique DeSantiago got the surprise of his life when, while taping the confession of a...
Are Public Urban Schools As Bad As You Think? YES!!!!
For years in urban education the emphasis was on reading, We sometimes dedicated a ninety minute block to reading daily. Ninety minutes out of a six hour day minus 40 minutes for lunch minus 40 minutes for a planning period. How many hour is left for teaching , let's...
Houston Officer Looking for White Guy – Beats Black Guy Up On the Way
[REPORTING FOR NEWS TEAM ONE Mid-West Region: N/S Dakota, Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, Montana, and Alaska] Houston - Apparently, a Black man can no longer hang out with his family while Black; even while celebrating his wife's birthday party. Kevin...
Did Charles Jenkins Bring Shame on the Name of the Lord?
Somebody has to have 'that' conversation about a church that overlooks the sins and shenanigans of Pastors and Preachers and Ministers and says things like "They are human, too." Well, kinda sorta d'uh. But one also expects that a pastor should be held to a higher...
Texas Senate Democrat Kesha Rogers Loses Primary Runoff
[REPORTING FOR NEWS TEAM ONE Mid-West Region: N/S Dakota, Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, Montana, and Alaska] 22nd Congressional District - There is a lesson to be learned about local politics, particularly in a deep red state that did not elect...
Apple, Beats By Dre Deal Finalized
“Anyone that's trying to do something to improve sound... that's all good.” -Dr. Dre For the past couple of weeks, the world has waited for the announcement that would crown gangster rap pioneer Dr. Dre the covenant “Hip-Hop Cash King”. However, there was a major hold...
Taking the Race out of Racism
I read good article in Slate today (url below) about young people's attitudes about race and racism. The authors outlined various studies that had been conducted as well as poll results showing that young people are just as fucked up about race as we are. There is a...
