Parental Mentors Are Needed In the Black Community
Since we are immersed in conversations with the black community, we are able to keep our fingers on the pulse of our concerns. It is a fortunate position to be in and an interesting one to say the least. One topic of conversation and concern that comes up frequently...
Florida Cop Kills Man By Running Him Over With His Car, Will Not Be Charged
WARNING: Black men in this country are clearly under attack. At the risk of sounding like a broken record, this has been our state of being for the past few hundred years here in America, but many of us refuse to wake to this reality. In yet another stunning piece of...
Family Turns Canceled Wedding Into Dinner For Homeless
There has been so much negativity in the world lately, we are relieved to have a heart warming story to share with you. This is a wonderful story we felt compelled to share with you. Carol and Willie Fowler are wonderful people. they had planned a swanky, upscale...
God Wanted Us to Be Rich – Reality Show to Feature Millionaire Gospel Musicians Lavish Lifestyle
Not sure what you think about the so called "Prosperity Gospel", but be prepared to have it flaunted in your faces via a new reality show set to hit the air waves in November of 2013. The show will feature a Gospel musician and his blended family. It is their claim...
WTF? School Admins Calls All Black Students the N Word on District Issued Cell Phones
How in the world are our children to get a quality education in this country when the school administrators and their officials have no respect for our children. In another effort for us to get the point that we must do for self, two school administrators from...
Harvard FREE? Low Income Students Do Not Pay a Dime at Harvard I Called To Verify
You read that title correctly. Students of low income households can attend Harvard without paying a dime in cost. I'm sure this sounds unbelievable to you, but trust me, I called their financial aid department to verify this personally. And guess what, IT IS TRUE!...
Harvard FREE? Low Income Students Do Not Pay a Dime at Harvard I Called To Verify Part 2
How many openings are available for this opportunity? There is no limit to the number of people that can attend Harvard using the initiative. The only limitation to the program is the student is able to be accepted to the University. This means you have to be in the...
White Dallas man shoots 8-year-old black boy in the face as he plays tag
File this under unbelievable, but a 46 year old white man in Texas shot an 8 year old African American boy in the state of Texas. The boy is still in the fight of his life as you can imagine and at this moment there is no motive on why the shooting occurred. Everyone...
Harvard University Is Now FREE for Students of Low Income Families
Article Update: Be sure to check out the update to this story at the bottom of the article. We CALLED HARVARD Financial Aid Office. Sounds like a crude joke, but it isn't funny because it is true. The University of Harvard, one of the most prestigious universities on...
Cop still fired for calling African-Americans Jigaboo
In 2010, officer David Edgmon, 24, was caught on video tape saying some outlandish things to a group of African American men. The former officer of the Little Rock, Arkansas police department tried to have his firing overturned in the Appelate court system, but to no...
Big Spenders, Small Investors: Blacks Have Little to Show for Hard-Earned Dollars
If you have hung around Urban Intellectuals for any amount of time, you will understand one of my major gripes with the black community is we don't understand community economics. However, this article I was reading today let me know, we don't even understand or...
Florida Man Literally Arrested for Walking While Black
Many people outside of our community will be shocked by the title of this article, but we are not. Violating the law while "Walking or Driving While Black" is something we come to expect in this country, unfortunately. And those that say we will be respected when we...
Reflections on Women of Color and Feminism: Part 1
Woman. A term that not all women of color have often, and arguably until this day, have been excluded from. Since the inception of this country, it was white women who were the quintessential “women.” They were its ideal standard of beauty, chastity, and purity. This...
What is Africana Womanism???
"Dr. Clenora Hudson-Weems: "Africana Womanism is a term I coined and defined in 1987 after nearly two years of publicly debating the importance of self-naming for Africana women. Why the term ‘Africana Womanism’?.... The first part of the coinage, Africana,...
Applebees Calls 911 on Family and Throws them Out Over Noisy Kids
Everyone has been to a restaurant with some rowdy, loud children in it. However, bet you haven't been to one when the police were called on the parents of these children, have you? This is exactly what happened to Eli Gau and his wife Lillian Maliti when visiting an...
Queens of the Universe: African Women in African Civilization
Africans were the first to inhabit the earth. Fossil records as well as DNA analysis give scientific evidence to support this fact. Therefore, the first woman to give birth was a Black African woman. It is from us that all humans have come. The other races of...
Trading In Our Crutches For Fishing Poles… The Food Stamp Dilemma
Okay my UI followers… I am angry. I am angry at the people who are crying and yelling foul over this whole food stamp fiasco. If you don’t already know by now the US government has cut the food stamp program by 40 billion dollars. People are now in an uproar and are...
House approves $40 billion cut in food stamps over 10 years
When I tell you your Government don't give a damn about you, i'm wondering how long is it going to take for you to pay attention. Not that all of you are on welfare or foodstamps, but we all know someone that was at some point or we needed to lean on the system from...
The Only Black Woman-Owned Chemical Manufacturing Company Makes $20M A Year
This is what i'm talking about. Positive, powerful black women out here leading the charge for our future and the next generation. Giving them something to strive for while giving those ready, willing and able employment. Linda McGill Boasmond is the only black women...
Not Our Image
Well UI… Yet again we have been fooled into believing something that we were made to by America’s media. Below you will see 3 separate pictures. These pictures are examples of what America would see as “Safe” black men. I may be older than some of you but I have...
