by Reneegede | Mar 6, 2019 | Opinion
Women’s History Month usually doesn’t come with the annual fanfare of Black History Month. Yet and still, America has more than its fair share of trailblazing African-American women who paved inroads across the nation when no one else could or would....
by Reneegede | Nov 15, 2018 | Opinion
As everyone has probably heard by now, Georgia gubernatorial candidate and Democratic nominee Stacey Abrams has yet to concede and hand Brian Kemp, her Republican opponent and former Secretary of State, his self-declared “victory” in a too-close-to-call...
by Reneegede | Oct 2, 2018 | Opinion
Recently, WRBL Channel 3 News in Columbus, Georgia did a short but viable report on the problem of escalating criminal and gang activity in the “real streetz” of one of the city’s oldest neighborhoods, East Highland. The Black Contribution to Gang...
by Reneegede | Sep 12, 2018 | Opinion
Black folks, Afrocentric peoples, Colored folks and any other kinds of non-white peoples out there, listen carefully. How many social media websites have you been kicked off of or banned from for what appears to be no REAL reason? Okay don’t admit it, but I hear...
by Reneegede | Jul 18, 2018 | Opinion
Ode to Claflin: “They said they built the train tracks over the Swiss alps between Venice and Vienna before there was a train that could make the trip. They built it anyway. They knew one day the train would come.” Those of you who recognize that small bit...
by Reneegede | May 18, 2018 | Opinion
So much is misunderstood about REAL racism in America. White people misunderstand it as something that can and does happen to them by someone who has no power against them whatsoever, and who can only use words (verbal sticks and stones) that may hurt their feelings....
by Reneegede | Mar 16, 2018 | Opinion
We’ve been seeing it since forever … repeatedly, and time after time again. We have watched the world’s biggest racists and lynchers get the best treatment possible in the news media, and we’ve seen even VICTIMS of white supremacists get worse...
by Reneegede | Feb 18, 2018 | Opinion
Black History Month is all day every day, ALL YEAR LONG…. It’s not a month, it’s a worldwide daily tribal global event. Earlier, we talked about the THREE things Barack Obama did during his eight years in office that ticked off Black America the...
by Reneegede | May 9, 2017 | Opinion
Twice in a row, in the space of one week, two young Black men have been killed in a local area of Columbus, Georgia, circumstantially known as “The Horseshoe.” And that’s just here LATELY, it’s an ongoing thing. But before you get your panties...
by Reneegede | Dec 28, 2016 | Opinion
…You got a message from above, you ain’t no thug, you’re royalty… When we invited Dr. Gary Dennis Hines to a Juneteenth fundraiser sponsored by the King’s Town Family Foundation, Columbus GA, this past year, we already knew of the 45...