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This Revolution is Being Digitized
It's time to take a little Black American self-assessment test. We used to say the "Revolution" would not be televised, thank you and rest in power Gil Scott Heron: Deet- Deet- dot- dot- dot- deet- deet. Right now, in today's so-called "Black Conscious Movement," it...
Somebody Is Watching You!
Did you know the mannequins in your favorite store can listen to your conversations and take your picture? The minute you enter the mall you are being tracked. The driveways into the mall track your license plate. All of your information is being stored in a massive...
Usher’s New Look
Grammy Award winning artist Usher has raised another $1,000,098,000.00 (One million ninety-eight thousand dollars) for his long-running organization, Usher's "New Look." The foundation takes youth from grade eight to post-secondary and prepares them for real world...
Mid-terms 2014: What’s Really Wrong with the GOP’s “Tea Party” Faction
It's an election year (Mid-terms 2014) and all of the snakes and serpents of olden times and ancient Eden raise their heads out of their dens and nests every election year, sniffing the air looking for trouble like old Beelzebul himself. They often come with apples or...
GET OUT: Mugabe Tells Remaining White Farmers To Leave Zimbabwe
This week, the President of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe reiterated his mandate that all white farmers had to give up their land and leave the country without compensation. Zimbabwe is not a place for white land owners. Period. According to AllAfrica, Mugabe was speaking at...
All I Do Is Win w/Rapper & Mixtape Cypher Winner Que
“Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing.” -Vince Lombardi Like it or not, the world thrives on competition. We all have an inherent desire to be the best in the world at what we do. Our desire to be at the top of our field is the fuel that moves and pushes us....
Domestic Violence and Abuse in Black America
Ah, it wasn't that long ago that MSNBC's Toure got in some deep muckety-muck for using the words "The power of whiteness," in response to a transgender "Jewish" female who said that her ancestors survived the Holocaust, came to America with "nothing" and "made it."...
Black Violin: Dynamic Duo on Strings Finds Salvation in Music
Wil (Wilner) Baptiste said that he and his partner, Kevin Sylvester, came into their career as violinists in different ways. "Kevin used to get in trouble in school and his mother forced him to take a Saturday music class, which is where he learned to play, but when I...
Where do the ‘Monolithic’ We Go from Here?
It's been interesting. To say the least. In the past few months, many of us Black folk throughout America have proudly managed to go on to mainstream social media, like Facebook and others, and shut down quite a few white racist operative "Tea Party"-ish groups who...
New Private Entities Invest in White House Initiative “My Brother’s Keeper”
Prologue Two hundred million over five years does not promise to knock a 'small dent' in President Obama's White House Initiative "My Brother's Keeper," but thanks to another $100 million -a recent booster shot investment- we not only observe President Obama gliding...
Black Men & The Rape Culture: You Set the Face of the Future
"No longer will it be said in Jerusalem that the parents eat the sour grapes and the children's teeth are set on edge." (Jeremiah 31:29) Generational curses are prevalent in the Black community and have been since nearly the beginning of time. Maybe CeeLo Green hasn't...
PTSS: 10 Keys to Understanding Black Mental Health
Definition: Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing (P.T.S.S.) is a 2005 book by Joy DeGruy which describes a set of historical and transgenerational behaviors, beliefs and actions associated with or, related to...
