Accessory Liability
As I always say, being an ex-con makes me somewhat of a subject matter expert of most things all criminal justicey. Articles like the one analyzed earlier today always make me want to jump through my laptop and choke the person writing this nonsense. I agree,...
Crime and Economics – Part 3
The lie that is told to our people is that we don't snitch. That crime wouldn't be so bad in the hood if we would just tell what we see. They even have public service announcement to drive home this nonsense. What is it . . . Just Tell It? Notwithstanding the fact...
Crime and Economics – Part 2
That is just one small example in the overwhelming flood of cases that are prosecuted in this country every day of the working week; and sometimes on the weekend if the court is really clogged up. For the powers that be, there is no incentive, NONE, in reducing crime...
LAPD Brass Answers To Police Commission For Recording Device Tampering By Officers In Black Neighborhoods
Los Angeles, California – The Los Angeles Police Departments highest ranking officials were under fire this past week as the police commission took on the issue of equipment tampering by officers policing black LA neighborhoods. The commission took up the...
The Boss Life Pt. 1 w/Author & Publisher Rahiem Brooks
“Literature is indispensable to the world. The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way a person looks at reality, then you can change it.” -James Baldwin All my life, I wanted to be a self-made man. I dreamed...
Hi Hater w/ Master Motivator Nawlinz Robinson
“Sometimes you got to hurt something to help something. Sometimes you have to plow under one thing in order for something else to grow.” -Ernest Gaines If anything, I personally believe that having people that doubt your goals is the cornerstone of success. It’s so...
Preacher’s Daughters: What’s the Deal with the Media Beatin’ Up on Black Women?
Ever hear the saying "I am the bitch you created me to be"? In the age of the same-o, same-o tired beatdown old reality show, the producers and directors of these aimless wanderings are still pawing and clawing at Black women in America to use as leverage to make a...
Hank Aaron Still Carries The Hammer
This past April 8th marked the 40th anniversary of Major League Baseball Hall of Famer, and current Atlanta Braves’ senior vice president Hank Aaron becoming baseball’s all-time home run champion. It was on that day in 1974 that Mr. Aaron passed Babe Ruth by hitting...
Attracting Abundance w/Master Motivator Nawlinz Robinson
“The man who has learned to do something better than anyone else, has learned to do a common thing in an uncommon manner, is the man who has a power and influence that no adverse circumstances can take from him.” -Booker T. Washington, The Case of The Negro You know...
Overcoming Obstacles w/Author Nathan Welch
“You either got time or money, can't have ‘em both. A n***** with money, don’t have no time. A n***** with time, don't have no money. We don't have a lot of time around here ‘cause time is money.” -Big Meech Ever since it was announced that I’d be getting my first...
The extreme extent of hair extensions.
You know when you think something is so great that you say it’s to die for? Well, don’t speak too quickly because that’s exactly what is happening to women in their extreme extent to obtain long, straightened, manageable hair. Seriously, there has been a barrage of...
Two REAL BIG MONEY Lessons for Black America from Donald “How to Get Rich” Trump
There are many stories floating "over the transom" with regard to financial accountability in Black America, but most people tend to take three major money moguls -Donald Trump, Bill Gates, and Warren Buffett - seriously when it come to advice on how to "get"...
The Other F Word
No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women... When black people are talked about the focus tends to be on black men; and when women are talked about the focus tends to be on white women. – Bell Hooks Feminism is...
Sound The Alarm: Holding Our Historically Black Colleges Accountable
Sound the alarm. If the HBCU’s will not respond to the black community needs then we have no choice but to stop support and decrease funding. It’s that time of the year again. Colleges, Universities and institutions of higher learning are eager to publish the racial...
Suit and Tie: The Outfit of Progression
Another violent weekend in Chicago claimed the lives of four and wounded 32 others. Many Chicago neighborhoods are similar to warzones, where residents are being held hostage by the constant threat of danger. Sadly, a blatant disregard for life, hopelessness, and the...
Reparations, The Attempt To Get Away With Murder
The wellknown 40 acres of land (and a mule was added later) for the enslaved African came from the Union General William T. Sherman. At the end of the Civil War, around 400,000 acres of land in Florida, Georgia and South Carolina were taken from former slave owners...
“Rebuilding Our Broken” Credit and Debt Recovery That Works
Okay UI here’s the deal… We often on this blog talk about the problems in the Black community but do not offer many solutions. We preach daily on what we are doing wrong, praise the few things we are doing right, but never address what we can do to fix those wrongs....
Hip Hop Cares: Common And Kanye West Join Forces To Create 20,000 Jobs For Chicago Youth
They say Hip Hop isn't doing anything for the youth and culture of the black community, but two of the music genre's biggest names are joining forces with the Chicago Urban League to bring an end to this perception. “Obviously, one of the biggest reasons our kids are...
‘Crack Babies’ Come of Age: Studies Show Poverty is Worse than Drug Abuse
Who wants to believe that drug abuse or sheer laziness leads to poverty? Especially when some of the laziest people in the world have never been broke? The studies are in and the popular assumptions about 'certain people' seem to be conclusively wrong. Poverty can...
Oakland Tech’s 5.0 GPA, 2100 SAT Akintunde Ahmad, Rastafarian Principles, and Take-Aways for Spiritual Upliftment
"People looking at me funny is so common that it doesn't stick out for me anymore. It's something I've gotten used to... I'll leave this school and there will be teachers who never knew I was one of the people on the honor roll," stated Akintunde Ahmad when being...
