Black Students At FSU Not Welcomed??
THE GENUINE SCHOLAR - As a college administrator, a person who attended 3 predominantly White institutions (PWIs), and someone who has researched the experiences of Black students at PWIs, I have been one of the biggest advocates for creating resources for students of...
African American Teenage Girl Youngest To Pass The Bar Exam
Another brilliant African American teenager has pushed the barriers of color by breaking another scholastic record. Gabrielle Turnquest from Windermere, Florida is the youngest person to graduate from Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va., with an undergrad degree in...
Kid Entrepreneurs Jaden Wheeler And Amaya Selmon’s ‘Kool’ Idea Leads To Food Truck Business
AfricanAmerican.org - Jaden Wheeler and Amaya Selmon are the youngest owners of a food truck in Memphis, and by a few critical years. Neither is yet a teenager. The brother and sister team -- he's 12, she's 11 -- own and operate Kool Kidz Sno Konez, a little...
7 Symptoms of a Poverty Mentality
Have you ever wondered why some people make it past the financial constraints of poverty while others don’t? It all boils down to interests, attitude and focus. Read through these 7 Symptoms of a Poverty Mentality, to be sure you don’t need to be diagnosed with this...
Black Woman Scores Major Court Win Against Black Boss Who Repeatedly Called Her The N-Word
NEW YORK (TheBlaze/AP) — Is it racist for a black boss to call a black employee the N-word? In an an odd case that has come to a fascinating conclusion, a jury ruled yes. And the lawyer for a black woman whose hostile workplace claim against her boss’s N-word rant...
Obama’s Anti-Black Rant
Obama’s twisted view of Black people and their history was on full display at the March on Washington anniversary. The president spewed slanders and lies, conjuring up welfare queens, crazed Black militants and his old stand-by, bad Black parents. “To put it bluntly,...
Federal jury rules it’s illegal to use the N-word while at work even if you’re black
A federal jury has ruled that use of the 'N-word' is discriminatory workplace behavior, even when used among blacks. A black New York City employment agency worker who was the target of a slur-laced rant by her black boss has been awarded $250,000 in compensatory...
Tulsa School Sends Black Girl Home Over Dreadlocks
(Fox 23) Tulsa - Deborah Brown Community School is one student short for the remainder of the school year. Terrance Parker said the school hassled him and didn't leave him a choice. Parker said he yanked his 7-year-old daughter, Tiana, out of classes because of a...
Meeting in Wyo. between NAACP, Klan heads marks history
DENVER (AP) — A meeting between the Wyoming chapter of the NAACP and an organizer for the Ku Klux Klan over the weekend is believed to be the first of its kind. The meeting between Jimmy Simmons, president of the Casper NAACP, and John Abarr, a KKK organizer from...
10 Year Old Nigerian Girl Makes History As Youngest Person To Be Interviewed by Forbes
A Nigerian girl, 10-year old Zuriel Oduwole has made history as the youngest person ever to be interviewed on popular magazine Forbes. The interview with the award winning documentary film maker, conference speaker and writer is featured in the August 2013 edition of...
Tavis Smiley: Obama “Dishonoring” MLK’s Memory With Push For War in Syria
Appearing on This Week with George Stephanopoulos, Tavis Smiley made no qualms about contrasting Martin Luther King Jr.’s nonviolent legacy and President Obama’s call for war with Syria. In Smiley’s view, President Obama, who recently spoke at the commemoration of the...
15 Year Old, Black Student Builds Multi-Million Dollar Tech Company
(KTVI) – Jaylen Bledsoe is a 15-year-old sophomore at Hazelwood West High School who started his own tech company that is now worth $3.5 million in just three years. Jaylen sat down with John Pertzborn to explain how he starting building a company when he was only 12....
Cornel West: MLK 50 Was ‘Coronation of Bonafide House Negro of Obama Plantation…Al Sharpton’
Unless you have been under a rock the last few months, you have heard many of the comments Cornell West has made about President Obama. He has challenged the President's policies, the black communities undying devotion to POTUS, and has even called him a global George...
Fundraising Helps Black Teen Go From Homeless to Howard U.
When most kids start their freshman year of college, it takes some time to get used to the small, cramped living spaces and to sharing a bathroom with a dozen people. But not James Ward. The Howard University student spent much of his childhood homeless, alternating...
All this Rallying for A $15/hr Minimum Wage Is Nonsense. Build Skill, Don’t Beg For A Hand Up. (Part 1)
I have been sitting back watching this beef (pun intended) over minimum wage develop over the past few years. It has escalated over the past few months and culminated in a massive organized rally, march and walk out by fast food workers across the country. They are...
All this Rallying for A $15/hr Minimum Wage Is Nonsense. Build Skill, Don’t Beg For A Hand Up. (Part 2)
2) Doubling minimum wage undermines all the people that have worked hard to move up the pay scale. Because people are suppose to magically double your salary, what happens to all those people that put in the hours of work, study, long nights of application developing...
Young Black Men “Caught” On Store Camera
As you read this title and saw the featured image, what did you think? If you're like most people who sees or even hears of a young black man with dreads no less, you thought that he was caught doing some sort of criminal activity. Well I am please to say nope, not...
If We Invented It… Then Why Is It Taboo In Our Community?
Hello UI fam. Most people would think if a person invents a thing, then they should be able to enjoy it without ridicule, or remarks about you betraying your own people... Right? Well, I have another one of life's internal questions that desperately needs an answer....
Hampton University Bans Twerking: Who Runs This School, The Klan?
What in the world is going on at the Historically Black College, Hampton University? They have made news for a variety of poor decisions this year that has left much of the African American community astonished. Today, we are finding out they are doing it again with...
You Aren’t White If You Have To Tell Your Kids This. Sad, But True.
Merging the sharp criticism of critical race and gender theory with comedic know how, poetic lyricism and hip-hop rhyme schemes, Javon Johnson quickly became one of the most awarded, well known spoken word/slam poets. He began writing in 2001 and won back-to-back...
