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The Siege of “The Boondocks”
“Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.” -Jim Morrison The world was left in shock when it was announced that The Boondocks would return for its fourth season without creator Aaron McGruder. Users of social media were taken aback by the news. Many took to...
NCAA Earns Millions Annually Off Modern Day Servitude
March Madness is well upon us as I write this. Filling out a bracket based on a field of 68 teams vying to become the NCAA champion of college basketball in an effort to win money (or bragging rights for correctly choosing a champion) is a rush that many never thought...
Big Mama to Black America: ‘Go Git ‘Dem Kids!’
Okay, we don't like calling our children "kids" any more. If it ain't one nit-picky thing with Black folk, it's another. BUT ... As a grandmother of seven (last count), I am no less than amazed at all of the thought, talk, and speculation that goes along with...
Thot Intervention: How To Really Get a Baller
“It just isn’t fair how girls get treated differently than guys when it comes to sex. A guy can sleep with every girl in the school and get called a player. A girl can sleep with only a few boys and get called a “hoe”. That’s why girls should keep their sexual lives...
Here is What Black Teachers Should Know
No matter your location, your school district, your pitfalls, setbacks, or mountains ahead to climb you are the next life changing influence in a room full of desirable minds who need your best that you can give on your worst day at work and vice versa. If you are...
Nick Cannon White Face Controversy : How It Hurts The Cause Of Racial Equality
Television personality and comedian Nick Cannon debuted his white faced alter-ego "Connor Smallnut" this week on Instagram. The backlash on both sides was immediate, predictable and, as usual, completely overblown. From one side, cries of "reverse racism" came raining...
Top 5 Reasons Why White America Failed Its Black Citizens
When I was growing up in the 1960s and 1970s, "came of age," so to speak, we were taught in American civics and citizenship classes that the ultimate redemption in all of life, and the quality of living, is based on attitudes, values, and beliefs. Attitudes, values,...
Yes White Teachers are Often Unqualified to Teach Black Children
Says Heather Mac Donald, from The National Review Online: "Actually, what Ms. Smith-Evans should be trying to fathom is the black crime rate, which explains the school-suspension rate. Black males between the ages of 14 and 17 commit homicide at ten times the rate of...
Fighting in Blackface: What the Popularity of Black Boxers Says About the Fans
Following a victory over Paul Malignaggi, Adrien Broner responds to a question in a post-fight interview saying: “I took his belt…and his girl,” in reference to a controversy over a mutual female acquaintance they shared. While the crowd roared in reaction to such a...
BI: The Scandal
Black inferiority goes very deep to the point where it has a sublime life line within our community. BI roots come from being in a mental, physical, financial and spiritual states of consciousness/awareness that lead to a deep seeded envy, jealousy, and hate (EJH)...
Why Watch Porn?
Quote: "Online pornography is a multi-billion dollar industry where every second over 3000 dollars are spent and almost 30,000 people are fapping...Unless someone shuts down the internet, pornography will continue to be an online powerhouse." - Daily Infographic Why...
The Black America ‘Truth or Dare’
Rules of Engagement: One player starts the game by asking another to choose "Truth or Dare?" If the player chooses "truth", then the first player poses a question, usually an embarrassing one, which the second player must answer truthfully. If the player instead...
