Years ago, the Stevie Wonder b-side made popular by Michael Jackson inspired many to stand and do on behalf of children worldwide. Born 13 years after MJ’s release is Lawrence…
Just as the people who call themselves “Jews” never fail to miss an opportunity in any way, shape or fashioned manner of speaking to remind humanity that six million of…
Killing In the Name, Bomb Track, Testify, Maggie’s Farm, Bulls On Parade, and Zapatista are a few of Rage Against the Machine’s more potent musical expressions remaining relevant to this…
The 1968 image of this post pictures Tommie Smith and John Carlos, teammates in track & field and in the Civil Rights struggle of their day. Little did they know,…
The candid you see is a testament to an optimistic spirit that endured to well … not the end, but to realize new beginnings! You are bearing witness to a…
Marques Carroll has become one of the most diverse sought-out trumpet players the city of Chicago has to offer. It is St. Louis and his upbringing that he claims as…
I am Black. We Are Black. We are “black people”. We are not African-American. Save your breath. We must come out of our confused and frustrated quandary over what to…
The perspectives from Joseph Zrnchik, political analyst published in a recent post online at Presstv.com offers a vantage point seldom delivered, if ever by Western media dispatchers. Zrnchik said the…
Perceptions are reality. Assumptions are too often unproven judgements wrongfully condemning people of color to fates unimaginable. Ask Mr. Emmett Till. Such is the case of Trayvon Martin. We need…
Fact: July 4th, 1776, held nothing of tangible benefit for people of color in this “western” culture. Truth is, it still doesn’t to this day. The application of the words…
Besides doing what I love and loving what I do and my family … imagery. Imagery. And more imagery serves as among my greatest motivators. Images hit hard. Imagery is…
After reading the book, “The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, Or, Africa for the Africans” by Amy Jacques Garvey (Author) and Marcus Garvey (Author), I now know why it…
Given the attack indigenous people(s) are under on the daily, “self preservation” needs to be our foundational premise from which we base every thought, deed and action in our lives.…
Before the trend of graffiti art and graff and tag artist became a popularized mode of defiant “authentic” expression and well before it became commercialized as with the branding and…
What could you do if you …
Fact: Black and Hispanic women have the highest teen pregnancy rates. Fact: Over the past 5 years, 8,000 to 9,000 Black people on average have been killed every year. 93%…
Me and Jabari were elbow tannin’ and sippin’ on some bean on our way to the driving range engaged in our usual exchange of observations, perceptions and responses to life’s…
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