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2019: The NFL & Colin Kaepernick-Super Bowl XVwhatever
Dateline: February 3, 2019-Somewhere in Atlanta GA not too far from Stone Mountain Park...where American terrorists lay immortal on a wall carving and the right of #BlackLives to survive in their own country lay in heaps of rubble. *** We've been told over and over...
Meet the Only Black Man to Fight the United States for Over 50 Years in the 1800s & Live to Tell About It, John Horse
John Horse was an African and Seminole military leader, who became known under many names, such as John Cowaya, Gopher John, and Juan Caballo. While there isn’t much known about his early life, we believe he came into this world in 1812. It’s also known that by the...
Aging While Black and Historic: Elders As Disenfranchised Libraries
Disenfranchised "They say when an elder dies, a whole library burns to the ground." *** As a child, I learned that for myself. But I was an 'old kindred spirit' of a little girl who loved sitting around the knees listening to the old folks' run their traps about...
Did You Know that “Negro History Week” was the Root of “Black History Month”?
The month of February is considered “Black History Month” across the United States. But it had a much earlier predecessor called “Negro History Week”. This recognition was the brainchild of an African-American historian, Dr. Carter G. Woodson. He is considered by...
The Very Narrow Radical Divide Between Evangelicalism and Racism
I must admit, I had a dark moment when President Obama was in office, and that is when he went well and far beyond the scope of what many refer to as "Christianity" in endorsing gay marriage. They lit the White House up in rainbow colors and dubbed him "The First Gay...
Racism occurs because Whites feel inferior to Blacks – Frances Cress Welsing (A profile of her life).
Frances Cress Welsing is an American Afrocentrist psychiatrist who became known for her 1970 essay The Cress Theory of Color-Confrontation and Racism, which became the beginning of the Isis Papers. Born on March 18, 1935, in Chicago, Illinois, her father, Henry, was a...
The Thief Cometh Not …
Since the early 1500s, more to the point, the mid-1500s (around 1564), Africans kidnapped and sold off to America have faced one never-ending trial and horrific tribulation after another. This is of no credit to the enemy(ies) of our souls, but to their shame; and to...
Death & The BET Awards
A UI article written by news reporter Randall Barnes on June 22, 2017 spoke of the deaths of some of our most magnificent and notable icons in the music industry and how they were honored at the BET Awards for that year or the following. He stated and I repeat ......
UI Says “Goodnight and Godspeed” to Magnificent R&B Song Stylist James Ingram
For those Millennials too young to remember, ask your grandmothers. The world and Urban Intellectuals mourns James Ingram, now in concert, as Debbie Allen said of him "In the Celestial Choir". You will likely hear a lot about him in the days to come. More than we can...
Drop those Zeroes – Get Yourself A Hero
MY HOW ... The. Chickens. Home. Roost. #draintheswamp So MUCH winning: The REAL Heroes Have ZERO Crimes...
Genesis 9: How The Scriptures Once Used Against Black People Reinforce The Godly Black Presence in the World
Genesis 9 New International Version (NIV) God’s Covenant With Noah Then God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth. 2 The fear and dread of you will fall on all the beasts of the earth, and on all the birds in...
Vacant Lots in Detroit Are Being Reclaimed By Black Beekeepers!
This story is amazing and one that should inspire each and every one of us to do something in our local community! Detroit natives Timothy Paule and Nicole Lindsey are making use of vacant lots in the city and decided that they would be perfect not only for raising...
