by Koba | Nov 2, 2015 | Culture
If you haven’t heard about Gloria Johnson-Cusack, then you might be missing something. Gloria was named CEO of the National Human Services Assembly. The company, according to CNN Financial, leverages roughly $24 billion dollars in purchasing power, giving her a great...
by Furious | Oct 30, 2015 | Business, History
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by Freddie Ra | Oct 28, 2015 | Business, Modern History
Like it or not, money makes this world go around. Unfortunately, we haven’t seen many African Americans master the game of economics unless they were an athlete or an entertainer. However, this stigma doesn’t apply to all wealthy black people. Meet Mr. Robert Smith,...
by Chum Sejimon | Oct 22, 2015 | Blog, Business, Modern History, Positivity
Dethroning Oprah Winfrey as the richest black woman in the world, Nigerian fashion designer turned oil financier, Folorunsho Alakija, is worth an estimated $7 billion. She began building a fortune in the 1980s with the development of a successful fashion design and...
by Furious | Oct 20, 2015 | Culture, Modern History
By Eric Easter – The debate over what black people call themselves spans centuries. While people think it is a relatively recent term, “African-American” has always had a prominent place in that debate. In fact, Yale scholar and associate librarian...
by Dez Smith | Oct 16, 2015 | Modern History
That is just what Lt. Col Tengesdal does every day as a U-2 pilot. What’s so special about this you may wonder? Lt. Col Merryl Tengesdal is a women, an African American women and she is the first ever in history to pilot the U-2, which is a reconnaissance aircraft...
by Patrick Irvine | Oct 14, 2015 | Modern History, Positivity
September 22, 2015 more than 40 FAMU Law graduates were sworn in. In a city and a state that is constantly trying to dismantle the historic HBCU and hand the pieces as well as the funding over to FSU, FAMU continues to exist and continues to prove that it is one of...
by Freddie Ra | Oct 13, 2015 | Culture, Modern History
By Michael H. Cottman and Courtney Bledsoe, Urban News Service October 12, 2015 WASHINGTON—The most surprising element of Saturday’s Million ManMarch was its women. The 20th anniversary celebration of 1995’s landmark gathering included women of all racial origins,...
by Freddie Ra | Oct 13, 2015 | Celebrities, Modern History
The little girl who stole our hearts on the big screen will not make the minds of children dance with her new literary adventures as an artist. The youngest actress ever to receive a best actress Academy Award nomination for her role in Beasts of the Southern Wild...
by Koba | Oct 12, 2015 | Culture, Modern History
Leonard F. Muhammad, a Co-Director of the #JusticeOrElse movement, stood on the steps of the U.S. Capitol Oct. 9 to forthrightly address thinly veiled accusations hurled at the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, those working with him to commemorate the 20th...
