It was both a walk down memory lane and a call to action when singer, actor, civil rights activist and international humanitarian Harry Belafonte spoke at St. Sabina Church. Part of a Black History Month program that also brought Princeton Professor Cornel West to the South Side church on... Read more...
A black Navy veteran credited with saving the lives of some of his shipmates during a World War II battle will be getting a long-awaited medal for his heroism, a Northern California congresswoman said. Carl Clark, 95, will be awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal with the Combat Dist... Read more...
So, this week I really didn’t feel like writing about anything in particular; so I am going to share a few things that have been on my mind lately. Here are a few things that grinds my gears, a little list I like to call my “Shut the f*ck up” list. Women who sobs on Facebook about... Read more...
As the men of Alpha Phi Alpha were concluding their centennial celebration in 2006, thousands of men in crimson and cream and purple and gold were gearing up for theirs in 2011. By the end of July 2011, two other historically black fraternities, Kappa Alpha Psi and Omega Psi Phi, would have hosted... Read more...
But no word about the nasty diarrhea inducing fake food huh? Solid.... Making the Twitter rounds on a super-sized scale over the weekend (under the hashtag of #seriouslymcdonalds) was this obviously fake sign that’s allegedly in a McDonald’s restaurant. It claims that “African-America... Read more...
THE legal scholar Derrick A. Bell foresaw that mass incarceration, like earlier systems of racial control, would continue to exist as long as it served the perceived interests of white elites. Thirty years of civil rights litigation and advocacy have failed to slow the pace of a racially biased d... Read more...
This is for those middle class White people with upper class attitudes with their six dollar Starbuck coffees, five hundred dollar small dogs, and their fifteen hundred dollar a month small studio apartments. Ignorant isn’t bliss, it’s stupid. The type of ignorance that some these middle cla... Read more...
For years, the SAT has come under attack for having a certain bent. From the Harvard Educational Review to the Princeton Review, the measurement tool has been called a "white preference test." Last year, Harvard published a study arguing that SAT questions in the verbal section favored white stu... Read more...
While some, like Packers RB Ryan Grant, have taken exception to Petersons statement Grant makes the point that there is, you know, still ACTUAL slavery in the world Steelers RB Rashard Mendenhall sees Petersons point. Writes Mendenhall on his Twitter page (this transcript, by the way, is... Read more...