When the Bough Breaks: Damon Dash Shows Us What NOT To Do with Money
For the record, let's set the record straight. When the bough breaks, the whole danged crib falls - not just the cradle. Celebrity news is not news unless it has some applicable reference to the rest of us who are reading about it. Celebrity news just for the sake of...
Pics Expose More Than First Reported
As quickly as it appeared it was gone. A black and white image depicting two individuals casually laying around, him with no shirt on, her staring into the camera looking comfortable in her surroundings. Controversy just around the corner waiting to jump on the next...
Hip Hop Cares: Nas Creates Minority Web Development Scholarship
The media loves to dump on the hip hop, and black, community in general for not wanting to give back. Most recently, one could point to Donald Sterlings ignorant comments on black people not wanting to help their people and trying to point out Magic Johnson. However,...
Struggling to Graduate: 4 Careers That are Worth the Effort
Doing all the work necessary to receive a degree is no easy task. It becomes even more complicated when you're taking care of a family and holding down multiple jobs. But don't allow discouragement to rob you of the bright future that put you on the path to a degree...
7 Ways to Get Involved with Your Local Politicians
One of the things Black folk are often accused of is not staying on top of their local government political processes. Non-involvement wreaks havoc on the way our governments and democratic processes work. It's not enough that people actually put their lives on the...
Is The Amber Alert System Doing the Job?
UPDATE: 05/22/2014 8:32 pm Eastern Standard Time According to 10 News Tampa Bay local authorities filed new charges against 35-year-old Granville Ritchie, including four counts of having sex with a minor, however non of the charges are related to the murder of...
Privacy, does it even matter?
I know Patrick Irvine posted this yesterday but my expounding on it became a bit too long so I decided to flesh it out a bit. Let me throw another angle at you guys. I personally could care less if Donald Sterling is fined or if he pays it. It will not benefit us....
Achieving Greatness w/Master Motivator Nawlinz Robinson
“I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin' hell, but as long as they ain't free, I ain't free.” -Muhammad Ali I must admit, LeBron James is my favorite athlete period. Never mind the fact that I have a strong dislike for the Miami Heat and I...
Blame it on the Bougie
The Negro race, like all races, is going to be saved by its exceptional men. The problem of education, then, among Negroes must first of all deal with the Talented Tenth; it is the problem of developing the Best of this race that they may guide the Mass away from the...
What We Don’t Know About Each Other… Accountability in Intellectuality
I recently realized how little I know about a majority of the people that I am constantly around on a day to day basis. I know almost everything about them in terms of what classes they are taking, what they like to do for fun and whether or not they are politically...
5 Reasons Why We Need A Think-tank
According to Meriam-Webster's online dictionary, Think-tank is defined as: an institute, corporation, or group organized for interdisciplinary research (as in technological and social problems) —called also think factory The full definition reads: Institute,...
Who Speaks For The Black Community?
The Short Story on "The Black Community" is that it is spiritually, morally and mentally deceased, as well as physically inactive. I buried it a few weeks back for lack of righteous standing in America for going on 50 years now. If we had a "black community" any more,...
It Ain’t What They Call You …
It's what you answer to. [Which may explain why the Good Lord doesn't answer most people's prayers when they address Him as "Jesus," but I digress.] Let's face it. Black folks, especially American Black folk, are suffering from quite a few mental health issues and...
Why Black America Calls SCOTUS Justice Clarence Thomas “Uncle Tom”-ish
Okay, most Black folk 'hate' Clarence Thomas is a strong thing to imply. But he isn't an "Uncle Tom." Uncle Tom was a hero who sacrificed his life so some other slaves could escape the plantation. Too old to run himself, they killed him for refusing to tell where they...
Oprah’s Network, Michael Sam Documentary Follows First Gay NFL Player’s Quest To Make The Rams
History will be made as the Oprah Winfrey Network follows the NFL's first openly gay players quest to make an NFL team, according to the Associated Press. The St. Louis Rams selected Michael Sam in the seventh round of the NFL Draft. Sam was the SEC Defensive Player...
The Op-Ed Project: Kinda ‘In Memory of Zoe Barnes and Slug Line’
It wasn't so long ago that I attended an Op-Ed journalism conference in Atlanta for women writers. The idea behind it was to start to take the conversation about what women can be and should be “allowed” to write about ('think pink' topics like features, recipes,...
Recommended Reading: Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man”
By Renwick Miller Life's been full of synchronicities for me this last month or so, not least of which is finding and devouring Ralph Ellison's iconic novel "Invisible Man" some 25 or more years after becoming aware of it in my early teens. It's the coming of age...
Innovation w/Author & Publisher Thomas Long
“Most of us understand that innovation is enormously important. It's the only insurance against irrelevance. It's the only guarantee of long-term customer loyalty. It's the only strategy for out-performing a dismal economy.” - Gary Hamel Sometime, to get in the mood...
What Do You Expect Our Children To Do With The Worst Educational Systems In The Country?
“The mere imparting of information is not education.” -Cater G. Woodson The public school system sucks! Trust me, I’m a witness! Ever since first grade, I’ve been going to some type of public school. I’m currently a junior in high school experiencing the absolute...
JayZ and Solange Fight In An Elevator As Beyonce Watched
TMZ, ever the ones to intentionally seek out and be the first to report a story (they broke the news about the death of Michael Jackson before anyone else heard it), has reported an elevator chance fight of literal "video fisticuffs" between rapper/hiphop mogul Sean...
