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Two REAL BIG MONEY Lessons for Black America from Donald “How to Get Rich” Trump
There are many stories floating "over the transom" with regard to financial accountability in Black America, but most people tend to take three major money moguls -Donald Trump, Bill Gates, and Warren Buffett - seriously when it come to advice on how to "get"...
The Other F Word
No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women... When black people are talked about the focus tends to be on black men; and when women are talked about the focus tends to be on white women. – Bell Hooks Feminism is...
Sound The Alarm: Holding Our Historically Black Colleges Accountable
Sound the alarm. If the HBCU’s will not respond to the black community needs then we have no choice but to stop support and decrease funding. It’s that time of the year again. Colleges, Universities and institutions of higher learning are eager to publish the racial...
Suit and Tie: The Outfit of Progression
Another violent weekend in Chicago claimed the lives of four and wounded 32 others. Many Chicago neighborhoods are similar to warzones, where residents are being held hostage by the constant threat of danger. Sadly, a blatant disregard for life, hopelessness, and the...
Reparations, The Attempt To Get Away With Murder
The wellknown 40 acres of land (and a mule was added later) for the enslaved African came from the Union General William T. Sherman. At the end of the Civil War, around 400,000 acres of land in Florida, Georgia and South Carolina were taken from former slave owners...
“Rebuilding Our Broken” Credit and Debt Recovery That Works
Okay UI here’s the deal… We often on this blog talk about the problems in the Black community but do not offer many solutions. We preach daily on what we are doing wrong, praise the few things we are doing right, but never address what we can do to fix those wrongs....
Hip Hop Cares: Common And Kanye West Join Forces To Create 20,000 Jobs For Chicago Youth
They say Hip Hop isn't doing anything for the youth and culture of the black community, but two of the music genre's biggest names are joining forces with the Chicago Urban League to bring an end to this perception. “Obviously, one of the biggest reasons our kids are...
‘Crack Babies’ Come of Age: Studies Show Poverty is Worse than Drug Abuse
Who wants to believe that drug abuse or sheer laziness leads to poverty? Especially when some of the laziest people in the world have never been broke? The studies are in and the popular assumptions about 'certain people' seem to be conclusively wrong. Poverty can...
Always Be a Lady
''I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.'' - Maya Angelou (b. 1928), U.S. author. originally published in Girl About Town (Oct. 13, 1986). Kicking Ass (interview), Conversations with Maya...
Femininity Is Dead
“One thing that Momma taught me when I was little is that outer beauty is important but it isn’t everything. ‘A woman should have more to offer than how good she looks,’ she’d always tell me, ‘The true value of a young black woman is her mind.’” -Aaliyah Anderson,...
The First Church of Sasha Fierce
Quote from Blacknews.com "The National Church of Bey, an organization that recently formed the new religion Beyism (based on pop star Beyoncé Knowles), is a real organization based in Atlanta, Georgia. Although Beyoncé herself is not believed to be a part of it, she...
“In Our Defense” Responsibility in Black America
Responsibility… Seems like a basic concept. The definition of the word according to the English dictionary it is “The quality or state of being responsible: as a moral, legal, or mental accountability “This is one of the most basic functions of human beings. We are...
