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INSPIRATIONAL: This Couple Paid Off $50k Debt After Just 1.5 Years Of Marriage!
Debt haunts many of us but there are many many positive role models in the community showing us that it needed drag us down. When the world seems like it's out to get us we need to look at people like this with respect and use them as a point of inspiration. Samuel...
Did You Know Three Siblings Created An App to Help Tackle Police Brutality?
Tamir Rice, Laquan McDonald, Sandra Bland, Michael Brown, Oscar Grant, and the list goes on. I don’t have to explain these stories because most of us are familiar with them. Police brutality has been a problem in the black community since its humble beginnings, when...
A Simple Solution To Fast Food Companies Hiring Burger Making Robots Instead of $15/hr Workers
The surge is on around the country to raise minimum wage for restaurant workers by much of the population. People and politicians realize the corporations are just being greedy and can afford to pay their workers a living wage, but refuse to do so. It would only cost...
At 2 years old, His Dad Taught Him How To Play Chess & Believes Your Child Is Capable of Far Greater
One thing that grinds my gears when it comes to Black people is us being told we are not capable of learning….and accepting it. This entire SCOTUS Scalia madness about black children not being fit for college is absurd and not something i’ve wanted to lend any of my...
Former Fashion Designer now Designs Blankets for NASA Satellites
I make blankets! Sounds easy enough right? Not when you add on the fact that the blanket are for satellites in outer space. Sounds far-fetched? Well meet Paula Cain from Maryland, she designs “space blankets”. Cain started her career with NASA almost eight years ago...
Compassion: In Just 10 Days, Chance The Rapper Raised $60,000 for Chicago’s Homeless Population
If you visit the city of Chicago, there is no doubt you will notice the growing population of homeless people sleeping outdoors. It is a sad sight to see that is compounded when you consider the frigid Chicago winters. How are they able to endure? Thanks to Chance The...
Is Saartjie Baartman Too Important of an Historical Figure for Beyonce To Write & Star in the Biopic?
Is Saartjie Baartman Too Important of an Historical Figure for Beyonce To Write & Star in the Biopic? Update Feb 16, 2016: Beyonce's 2016 Superbowl performance showed her blackness and support for the community. Many are wondering does this add to her credibility and...
ABC News Showed Their Biased, Racist Journalism With This One Simple Oregon Tweet
A lot happened this weekend and you might have missed it between the new year celebrations, resolutions, recovery and general blind happiness of Americans these days. Out in Oregon, a group of white people got together and held a peaceful protest as they TOOK OVER A...
Central Park Five’s Korey Wise Donates $190,000 to the University of Colorado Innocence Project
Do you remember “the Central Park Five”, when five juvenile males of color were convicted of raping a female jogger in New York City’s Central Park in 1990? The Central Park Five were exonerated in 2002 when the real rapist turned himself in and DNA from the crime...
Update: Caesar Sant Child Prodigy Suffering from Sickle Cell Anemia
Caesar Sant started playing the violin at the age of two. This prodigy speaks 7 languages, started doing multiplication at age 4 and has earned the Little Dragon’s black belt in Karate. He has achieved all of this while fighting sickle cell anemia. By the time Caesar...
Heptagon Part 7: One Man Band Plays All Alone
No veiled references this time ... Professor Carl Tone Jones made one his infamous "riding along in my automobile" videos regarding the pettiness of Black people across the transom. #besafe #donttextanddrive. The gist of it was that the indescribable "we" are so...
Weigh In: “If A Black Woman Falls in the Forest…”
"If a Black woman falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does she make a sound?" What is your take on this? Laws to Protect Women (VAWA) are falling apart... Sandra Bland Race Cop to Be Indicted for Perjury and Fired
