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Saying Goodbye to Yvonne Staples …
^^^ South Shore, CHICAGO, IL - Mississippi native, Yvonne Staples, manager and backup singer for the powerhouse soul trio, The Staple Singers, has died. Born to Roebuck "Pops" and Osceola Staples in 1937, she was 80 years old at the time of her death. Bill Carpenter,...
On This Day … Maya, Martin … and Winnie
...On April 14, 2018, the world will officially lay to her final resting place one beautifully strange and misunderstood mischaracterized soul by the name of Winnie Madikizela Mandela. Regardless of what anyone thought of Winnie and her frightful public antics, or...
Only Three Nationalized Observances A Year Are Legitimate and Purposeful for African Americans
Yes, yes, we all know... We DO New Years, Valentine's Day, St. Patrick's Day (as if), The Ides of March, Easter, April Fool's Day, May Day, the Fourth of July, Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas - MAINLY - and then we start all over again on the first of the...
Leah “Still in the Game”
Leah Still will be eight years old this coming May. As everyone knows by now, Little Miss Leah has been dealing with neuroblastoma, a cancer diagnosis she received at the age of four. This month, Urban Intellectuals went to find out how the young lady has been...
The Rashida Effect: Culture of Womanly Black Consciousness In The Information Age
I was recently laughed at, ridiculed really, for having a hidden nickname, something in tune or in touch with "Rashida," as if I'm a known Black conscious soul culture warrior of the Islamic ilk. In a sense, it's amazing to see Black people cut one another up and down...
One Point Three Trillion In Government OMNIBUS Spending
Winners and losers from the $1.3T omnibus Congress is on the verge of passing a $1.3 trillion omnibus that would fund the government through September and provide the biggest federal spending increase in years. The bill is loaded with provisions given its likely...
Moving From “Obamacare” Into Universal SINGLE-PAYER Healthcare Reform
Don't get it twisted about FREE HEALTHCARE, people. "Free" is a lie. Ain't JACK free. This government has never GIVEN anyone anything, ever in its history, especially not Black people. When they call us Black folk 'LAZY', all it means is that they want us for WORK FOR...
Letters from Min. Farrakhan to European Jews and the Black Ecumenical Leadership of America
In June and July of 2010, after so many years of being accused of expressing anti-Semitic influence against America's European Jewish influence --whom we often refer to as 'Ashkenazi' and 'Khazarians'-- the Hon. Min. Louis Farrakhan penned two communal letters to...
D.C. Councilman Trayon White Sr. Disparaged by Zionist-controlled Media for Speaking Truth to Power
It's been out there for a long time. Everyone knows about it, but people fear to speak of it in public. Their greater fear is of being called "crazy" or even worse, "anti-semitic" for telling the discovered and provable truth. *** So-called "conspiracy theories" about...
Cultural Misappropriation and Bruno Mars?! C’mon People-Give It A Rest Already…
Y'all need to leave Bruno Mars outcha mouths, lol. His dad is part-Jewish (note: tribal JEWS are Black; European Jews are not a tribe, they are an adulterated European culture) and Bruno's mom is Filipino? He Black, and INDIGENOUS Black at that, LOL. The Filipinos are...
How Even “Christians” Should Know Betsy DeVos’ Alleged ‘Biblical’ Plan for America’s Schools is Wrong
The evangelical "right" is always wrong, and on two major counts, amongst many others: (1) The "Christian" Bible doesn't say a word, not one thing, about God's Kingdom being advanced on the wings of white-washed rightwing conservative evangelicalism, but ONLY at the...
Columbus GA: Local Media Displays Vitriolic Racism When It Comes to Reporting the News
We've been seeing it since forever ... repeatedly, and time after time again. We have watched the world's biggest racists and lynchers get the best treatment possible in the news media, and we've seen even VICTIMS of white supremacists get worse treatment than they....
