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UIMD: The Return of Stolen Goods
UI MEME OF THE DAY, A DAILY SERIES... Ahma just sit this right here and let it marinate: BRIEF NOTE Whatever Black people do, we tend to excel at. One of the reasons why racist whites come at us the way they do is because they fear and dread, and they have...
Obama Opens Cuba, But Will USA Extradite Assata Shakur?
The unthinkable happened yesterday, President Obama released the freeze on USA relations with Cuba. After 53 years of the cold shoulder, POTUS made an announcement that shocked the country and Cuban world. “Neither the American nor the Cuban people are well-served by...
UIMD: Hey, It wasn’t Us Who said “all Black people are justified” in Killing Unarmed White People
UI MEME OF THE DAY, A DAILY SERIES... When we talk about the senseless killings and murders of unarmed Black men and women, even by other Black people, it often gets treated the same way that white people use to ridicule fat Black women -- by comparing fat Black women...
Trayvon Martin’s Brother Achieves What His Brother’s Killer Never Will: Real Manhood
Urban Intellectuals would like to say congratulations to Jahvaris Fulton, the brother of slain Sanford, Florida teenager Trayvon Martin -- an up and coming college graduate who never got to fulfill his dreams because of the sacrilegious deed of a vile and hateful...
Indiana Uniform Company Tries the “Cut’n’Paste” Response to “I Can’t Breathe”
We've known for a long time now that the village idiot's only response to the truth is to mock those who tell it. When they can't come up with an appropriate and just response, they try taking your own words and knowledge and using a cheap shot of a political move to...
Race-baiting Mainstream Media Spins Out of Control Again on Louis Farrakhan’s Ferguson Speech
The mainstream media's 'awketybawkers' are at it again. Here is what "The Inquisitr" says about Louis Farrakhan's speech on the events that happened in Ferguson, MO. "Watch Louis Farrakhan Demand Ferguson Protesters To ‘Tear This Godd**n Country Up!’ [Video] But when...
Black Frats & Sorors “Stomp the Yard” on Mona Scott-Young’s Black Greek Letter Project
Well well well, oh well, and LOL. Yet another attempt by the Hollywood Black-ish brigade to disparage and bring down the root of Black history in American HBCU's has been 'almost' burned to the ground. Mona Scott-Young, the 'behind-the-scenes' creative mogul who...
UIMD: Better Things Than Oprah That Would Make Tyler Perry a Billionaire
UI MEME OF THE DAY, A DAILY SERIES... Today's Meme is a actually a WishList. A young man, Y'Mahel, put out a YouTube video with a cast of characters in it called KING DAVID. This cast is more True Life when it comes to the Bible stories and allegories. And he placed...
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Movie Review: Chris Rock Leads the Way [Out] in “Top Five”
***WARNING: Potential Spoiler, but maybe not...*** There are moments in time when it must be said that a man should stick with what a man does best. This is one of those moments. Chris Rock is a phenomenal comedian, and a pretty decent "bit" actor. The movie roles he...
Mychal Bell of ‘Jena 6’ Graduates from Southern University with Degree in Education
When there is media hysteria and a frenzy over another overblown incident of high caliber racialized treatment of more Black children in places like Lowdown Louisiana, the young people who get the media attention are expected to go on with their lives and do better...
UIMD: The Tried, The Test and The Tested
UI MEME OF THE DAY, A DAILY SERIES... It was once said of this life -- "I feel like I've been invited to a big huge stupid crazy birthday party without even so much as the right to refuse the invitation. And just when the party gets real good, feeling good, the music...
Al Sharpton’s VIP Section At DC Protest Fractures The Movement
Saturday, Al Sharpton and the National Action Networked called for a national march on Washington, DC, to protest the police brutality and the unarmed murder of black men in this country. The event drew tens of thousands of people from all over the country who were...
