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11 Historically Black Colleges & Universities That Have Closed
Historically Black Colleges and Universities, or HBCUs as they are called, have been in the news lately for a variety of different reasons. Many of which have been lack of enrollment, the lack of funding, and questions about the curriculum if they are really and truly...
UIMD: Poverty in Africa is Man-Made
UI Meme of the Day, a daily series… The continent of Africa and its 'middle eastern' (i.e., Northern African) partition -as mandated by Europeans- has been raided, looted, raped, ravaged, and pillaged for at least the past 500 or more years. For a continent that was...
UIMD: It’s Mother’s Day Every Day
UI Meme of the Day, a daily series… Black women - always the womb, the wet nurse, the "belly" as Dr. Ameena Ali of the Bellies of Grracee ("grace") Foundation would put it - of the world. We know that every time a child wants to go to default and blame someone else...
Coming up at the top of the hour: Topic #1: The trials of tribulations of Jameis Winston Topic #2: Should some HCBUs be closed in order to improve others. Topic #3: Free for all. Come join the discussion!!! www.freeconferencecall.com/wall/ui
The G20 and Mid-term Elections: A Glimpse Outside the USA on the Black Work Ethic
The Group of 20 (G20) Summit was developed in order to sustain a dying economic Asian world. The G20 is made up of 19 countries plus the European Union. The "member" countries are as follows -- (a-keep in mind that nations in the African Union are...
Part 2: Tracking Obama’s Response to the Economic and Housing Crises in Black America
Part 2 of a 5-part series... [Click Here for PART 1] Obama speech to The National Economic Council, March 2009 I want to talk this morning about our understanding of the roots of our current economic crisis, the rationale for the administration's recovery strategy,...
UI in Ferguson Helping to Demand The Arrest of Officer Darren Wilson
Final numbers are not in yet, but it looks like upwards of 5,000 people came together in downtown St. Louis in support of "Hands Up, Don't Shoot!” Coalition and campaign. This rally was sponsored by the AFL-CIO and had the participation of of around one groups coming...
UIMD: Asleep No More The Meme
UI Meme of the Day, a daily series… It took a Black man getting elected President to wake Black people across the nation up from that deep long slumber that was going on between 1970 and 2008. It also took that same Black man getting elected President to alert white...
UIMD: 40 Acres and A Trillion Pounds of Flesh
UI Meme of the Day, a daily series… America's post-Antebellum bloodstains won't be washed out by a few cheaply laid out trinket government programs and some hat-in-hand backstroking social assimilation statuses. That has never worked out for us, and it never will. The...
Part 1: Tracking Obama’s Response to the Economic and Housing Crisis in Black America
Part 1 of a 5-part Series... Yes, WE can. Y'all remember that, right? Bet you're probably wondering who "we" is now, right? When the Black folks down south and in spots around the nation pulled up on the electoral train's Caboose during the 2008 nationals, President...
Remembering 2007: FLOTUS in Iowa is Still in RARE Form Some 7-odd Years Later
This is the entirety of First Lady Michelle Obama's speech in support of Bruce Braley in the State of Iowa. No, she wasn't thoroughly classless like Mitt Romney's Iowa faux pas. Didn't even mention once the fact that his grandfather was born in Mexico and his...
Continuing Our Right To Vote as African Americans
I was convicted in my soul to write this article. Let's first understand where it was began. African Americans have a history in both major political parties of the United States. After the Civil War almost all Blacks considered them-selves Republicans. It was the...
