Mic Check 1-Two! is hosting our second annual Prom Drive!! This year we have added new locations and new dynamics to ensure a more lasting community impact. Last year, we hosted two prom dress drives for young girls in high school and junior high school who were in need of formal gowns but d... Read more...
Focusing on the extraordinary women behind the two men who would change history, " Betty & Coretta " tells the similar true stories of Coretta Scott King (Angela Bassett), wife of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (Malik Yoba), and Dr. Betty Shabazz (Mary J. Blige), wife of Malcolm X (Lindsay Owen Pi... Read more...
The grandson of late civil rights leader Malcolm X was arrested by the FBI on Monday on his way to Iran to attend a Hollywoodism conference. The Hollywoodism conference occurs annually and brings together filmmakers, directors, actors, and movie critics as well as politicians and economists who ... Read more...
Cerebellum H2O 28 Day Challenge! Start Your New Year Off Right. Get Healthy. Drink Cerebellum H2O USE YOUR CEREBELLUM® THINK ABOUT IT! BEFORE YOU DRINK IT!™ Drink Water Re-Hydrate Your Mind, Revive Your Body. How to Enter: To enter you must create a “pic stitch... Read more...
Says Zuri (Instructor at Youth Build Philly) MLK Day is one of the biggest days of nationwide community service. While most of us are off from school or work, many schools, community centers, and nonprofit organizations get much needed renovations and donations through the service done o... Read more...
“We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now.” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. penned these words in Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community, the last book he published before his assassination in 1968. More than forty years after Dr... Read more...
...like Trayvon Martin America loves Black men like Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X and even Trayvon Martin - after they are dead... TRAYVON MARTIN is more valuable to America as a dead young black man then he ever was alive! As a dead symbol, the president can claim him as a son ... Read more...
Not unexpectedly, Adele's "21" album spends a 22nd week atop the Billboard 200, selling 297,000 (down 59%), according to Nielsen SoundScan. It's now the longest-running No. 1 since Prince & the Revolution's "Purple Rain" soundtrack scored 24 weeks at No. 1 in 1984 and 1985. This is also the... Read more...
Annie Spencer Annie Bethel Spencer was a poet and active participant in the New Negro Movement and Harlem Renaissance period. Anne was the first Virginian and first African-American to have her poetry included in the Norton Anthology of American Poetry. Also an activist ... Read more...