Philly Winter Urban Book Festival supporting Best Selling and African American Authors Philly Winter Urban Book Festival supporting African American authors by encouraging readers to broaden their horizons in the literacy world. Philadelphia, PA (November 19, 2012) - The Philly Winter Urban... Read more...
Just what is it? Atlanta is supposed to be the citadel of the civil rights struggle, yet the living history of the era are beat down like they are crack head criminals on the corner. Mukasa ( Willie Ricks ) called last night. From our conversation I understand that Mukasa was on the Morehouse Camp... Read more...
White girl + black man is definitely the elephant in the room Ice (and Erica too…) – but let’s take it a step further. Things have changed – drastically, and let’s just say, us black women don’t like the way black men are currently handling themselves. Check out the top 10 reasons blac... Read more...
It has been 40 days since two men in white collared shirts knocked on Martinez Sutton’s door and told him his 22-year-old sister, Rekia Boyd, had been shot. “Are you Martinez Sutton?” “Yes. What is the problem?” “Are you the brother of Rekia Boyd?” “Yes.” “Your s... Read more...
http://theassatadaughtersproject.tumblr.com/ Iresha Picot and Natasha Butler, Assata’s Daughters, come together to build a collection of work for Black Women, by Black Women, in the name of our Revolutionary Warrior Mama, Assata Shakur. In a 1978 article in the Black Scholar, Assata Shakur... Read more...
_ Psychology Today blogger Satoshi Kanazawa sparked a firestorm with his latest posting entitled, "A Look at the Hard Truths About Human Nature." In it, the evolutionary psychologist at the London School of Economics argues that black women are less physically attractive than other women. Th... Read more...
Snoop Dogg recently announced that he owes it to his women fans to move forward producing more “female-friendly” records. Over his illustrious 18 years as a gangsta rapper, Snoop has agreed that making songs that objectify and exploit women are just not that cool anymore. I guess he finally re... Read more...
So I went to log in to my YAHOO! account to check some emails and the head line for this video caught my eye. Apparently on Wednesday the White house was the scene of a minor showdown between White House press secretary Robert Gibbs and American Urban Radio correspondent April Ryan. During the d... Read more...