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If you been around the Internet as much as I have, you should have heard of the story of a young black woman who claims that the successful movie series The Matrix was actually an idea stolen from her book entitled “The Third Eye“. More »
From: Boston Globe
“Suffering from a fractured vertebra, Blake went home to Fairfield, Connecticut, to recover. But life was about to hit him another hard serve. More »
I never heard anything about this until I read the story in my paper (LA Times) recently.
Johnny B. Thomas grew up with the story of Emmett Till. It filtered down to children here like a dark fable, one that ended with a black boy wrapped in barbed wire at the bottom of a river.
There is much I could say about modern-day slavery in Mauritania, Niger and Sudan. But let me instead turn to the dirty little secret that so many of us Kenyans know More »
U.S. Census and SBA Loan Programs Reflect Exponential Growth in Entrepreneurship
WASHINGTON, July 29 /PRNewswire/ — The U.S. Census Bureau yesterday released preliminary estimates from its 2002 Survey of Business Owners, indicating that minority groups and women are increasing business ownership at a much faster rate than the national average. More »
Every week around this time, I try to share with you briefly those issues and thoughts that I was not able to cover on this site for the past week.
Voting More »
Mary T. Washington, a bookkeeper who in the 1920s began methodically surmounting racial barriers in business to become the first African-American woman to be a certified public accountant and the head of one of the largest black-owned accounting firms in the nation, died on July 2 at a nursing home in Chicago. She was 99. (more…)
Also click here for additional details on this shining light in our great history.
9 of 10 teens now using the Internet (suntimes.com)
Nearly half have cell phones to keep in touch with home and friends. They text message their friends. They think e-mail is something used to talk to “old people.”
An African-American publishing company is looking for personal essays from the public on loving, supportive fathers.
Kinship Press is a Philadelphia-based imprint designed to publish positive stories and images of African-Americans. (more…)
My people, my people, my people.
If you are not aware of the dangers of partially hydrogenated oils, please read this article.
The diet of most black Americans contain extremely high contents of this poison. These oils More »
In light of the recent terrorist activity that took place in London, I have been wanting to talk about this subject all week. Fortunately, I just came across this article that pretty much makes the same point that I wanted to make:
Such was the case last Tuesday when a powerful and tragic story was spread across the top of the Metro section.
“What happens when the mainstream media, after years of seething over conservative talk radio’s success, discover its alternative got diverted public funds, earmarked instead for inner-city youth and seniors?
The answer, with one key exception: they pretend it didn’t happen. More »
Please bookmark this site and check back often. This site dispells the myth that Cuba should be an example for America to follow regarding how they treat their poor.
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“The police is continuously asking youngsters for their IDs as a form of harassment and intimidation.
Many of these youngsters are sent to jail for one to four years for ‘dangerousness’ even though they haven’t broken any laws. More »
From: seattletimes.com
BOSTON  The governor’s office has instructed hospitals to cross out the word “father” on birth certificates for children of same-sex parents and substitute “second parent,” angering municipal clerks. More »
The hotel industry is stepping up efforts to recruit minority franchisees whose groups have traditionally been left out. More »
Ginger has been used for thousands of years to prevent or treat nausea, leading researchers at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center to believe that the plant could also help people with cancer avoid the nausea induced by chemotherapy. (more…)
I was recently told about this article in the LA Times that is accuses Tiger Woods as being “too boring” because of his successful career with “seemingly” no struggle. More »
These are the words of Sam Logan Jr. publisher of the black newspaper Front Page and the Michigan Chronicle. In his commentary, he is talking about the failures of the “us versus them” policy within the black business community and how it is having an negative effect on the Detroit economy as a whole. More »
First the news:
Jolting organized labor, the Teamsters and a massive service employees’ union decided Sunday to bolt the AFL-CIO, paving way for two other labor groups to sever ties in the movement’s biggest schism since the 1930s.
