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(VIDEO) Watch This Rare Color Footage Of Black Wall Street
Apparently this footage of Greenwood 'Black Wall Street' has not been seen for over 50 years and man, it;s mesmerizing. Just seeing these folks who were building a future for themselves in Greenwood, going about daily business. I could watch this over and over again...
WORD: 2 Chainz’s Turned The Pink ‘Trap House’ Into A HIV Clinic For 4th July
2 Chainz’s just keeps on putting himself out there. Sometimes he is hustling some business idea, next thing he is doing great things for the Black community. The guy never stops! He created the Pink Trap House in Atlanta in June. People have flocked to Atlanta to see...
Police Raid Vatican Priest’s Drug-Fueled ‘Gay Orgy’ In Apartment Related To Dept. Investigating Clergy’s Abuse Against Minors
I'm going to put this out there, I don't really care if consenting adults engage in drugs, an orgy, a gay orgy, whatever. It's their business, as long as they don't harm anyone. Not my thing but each to its own. HOWEVER, when it's done by a Vatican Priest, someone who...
JAY-Z Releases Footnotes For ‘The Story of O.J.’, Still Ni**a
When Jay-Z dropped ‘The Story of O.J.' I was floored. I'm not a big fan of Jay-Z but this song and the accompanying video really reeled me in. A deep and true song with a masterful video stacked full of references. In fact I have been trying to catch them all but it...
Mahershala Ali Could Give Us All A Reason To Get Excited About True Detective Season 3
True Detective's first season was TV at it's finest. Down and dirty, complex character interaction with gritty Southern soul and an epically tense story. I waited with anticipation for Season 2, and oh my god, I was hit in the face with a shovel. It was like some...
Don Cheadle to Produce and Star in Movie about the First Black Millionaire
Don Cheadle will be producing and starring in a movie about the first black millionaire. He is teaming up with Steven Baigelman to bring Shane White’s Prince of Darkness to the big screen. Cheadle will produce and star in Prince of Darkness and Baigelman will be...
(VIDEO) Kaepernick In Ghana “How can we truly celebrate independence on a day that intentionally robbed our ancestors of theirs?”
Kaepernick was in his ancestral home of Ghana (he discovered using a DNA test last year that Nigeria and Ghana are his biological homelands via his father) yesterday as part of his mission to learn more about his past and culture. He wrote on Twitter along with a...
WATCH: Danny Glover “The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro”
When Frederick Douglass was asked to give a speech at Rochester, New York on July 5, 1852, related to the fourth of July, he shocked by giving a condemnation and brutally honest account of where he stood. Fact is, really not a lot has changed! Danny Glover...
“Stand Your Ground Law” Ruled Unconstitutional By Florida Judge
Like I always say, a broken clock is right twice a day. Yesterday, a judge ruled that the “Stand Your Ground Law” is unconstitutional. The law required prosecutors to disprove a defendant's self-defense case at pretrial hearings, ala the George Zimmerman case back in...
History Repeating Itself: Two Sisters From Compton Ready To Take Over Golf
In the world you find out that no idea is original. There’s nothing new under the sun. Everything that we’ve seen and thought has been done before. From the nineties to present day, we’ve seen the Williams Sisters (Venus & Serena) completely dominate the tennis...
Wake Up: Future Please Don’t “Do It For the Culture”
We have to stop supporting artists like Future. We need to start holding entertainers responsible for the messages they promote. This is about more than just the drug culture these new rappers are promoting. They have to understand that their words and actions inspire...
Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf, Returns To USA, Continues Anthem Protest in Ice Cube’s Big3 League, Supports Kaepernick
Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf caused a controversy and received death threats for his anthem protest many years before Kaepernick took the knee and was more or less forced to go and play Basketball abroad. buy symbicort inhaler online...
