by Reneegede | Dec 17, 2014 | Opinion
Urban Intellectuals would like to say congratulations to Jahvaris Fulton, the brother of slain Sanford, Florida teenager Trayvon Martin — an up and coming college graduate who never got to fulfill his dreams because of the sacrilegious deed of a vile and hateful...
by Reneegede | Dec 4, 2014 | Opinion
UI Meme of the Day, a Daily Series… Mr. President Barack H. Obama Jr., I have been one of your staunchest supporters up to now, but this non-indictment of the murderer of Eric Garner yesterday has gone over the top. Not that YOU didn’t indict him, but what...
by Reneegede | Dec 2, 2014 | Opinion
UI Meme of the Day, a Daily Series… Once again, we’ve seen the American standard of lynching Black people applied to the Nth degree in America, and the good news is that today’s so-called “new” Blacks are witnessing what their parents and...
by Reneegede | Oct 7, 2014 | Opinion
I am sorry that it took the deaths of Michael Brown of Ferguson MO, Jordan Davis of Marietta GA, John Crawford of Beavercreek, OH, Troy Davis of Savannah GA, Chris Garner of New York City, Trayvon Martin of Sanford FL (as if Trayvon’s murder wasn’t enough...
by Reneegede | Sep 25, 2014 | Opinion
UI Meme of the Day, a daily series… The Ella Baker Center for Human Rights is named after a largely unsung hero of the civil rights Freedom Movement who inspired and guided emerging leaders. Ms. Baker played a key role in some of the most influential organizations of...
by Reneegede | Sep 6, 2014 | Opinion
Well, a lot of us bowed out on the conversation and media hype surrounding the lynching murder of Michael Brown, late of Ferguson, Missouri. Older Black people bowed out because we’ve been listening to this kind of thing most of our lives, and the general...
by Ghostndamachine | Aug 12, 2014 | News
I originally wrote this post after the Trayvon Martin verdict. In many ways, the concept holds the same. We are understandably heartbroken about the latest tragedy to befall our community. We have had three in the last month, killed by police officers doing...
by Reneegede | Aug 4, 2014 | Opinion
It’s time to take a little Black American self-assessment test. We used to say the “Revolution” would not be televised, thank you and rest in power Gil Scott Heron: Deet- Deet- dot- dot- dot- deet- deet. Right now, in today’s so-called...
by Reneegede | Jul 10, 2014 | Opinion
Once again, we Black people and Americans find ourselves stuck in the middle of someone else’s controversial Internet heatwave. This time the “stick-and-move hit’n’run race-mongering apologist” company is called Just Add A Kid, which is...
by Patrick Irvine | Jun 20, 2014 | Blog
So as we move forward in our struggles and everyone continues to talk about the need to repeal SYG laws it becomes important to examine what those laws actually are because things can get confusing with all the rhetoric going on. One point of mention here is that...
