The music service that we completely try to ignore is making sure that we donāt forget about them. TIDAL is in the news again but for a completely new reason. Jay Zās music platform, in collaboration with Roc Nation, is donating $1.5 million to Black Lives Matter and other local and national social justice groups.
About a week ago, my family and I got together to play some trivia. During one of my turns to choose a category, I picked a round that focused onĀ the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. because I figured it would be fair andĀ give everyone a fair chance. My 15-year-old cousin immediately put that […]
This past weekend, a story broke that a group of black women who are students atĀ the State University of New York in Albany were attacked while on public transportation. The students, whose identities haven’t been revealed, claim they were harassed and assaulted by a group of white men and women on a bus after a […]
It looks like Flint, Michigan is getting help from nearby celebrities. Big Sean is an active participant in helping the Flint, Michigan water crisis, as he launched #HealFlintKids on Thursday, January 21, 2016 along with donating $10,000.
I found myself welling up with tears as I chopped potatoes Sunday morning. It wasn’t the onions and garlic. It wasn’t dust in the air. It was the reminder that the breakfast I was making for my family was the same breakfast my father made for me before he passed away last year.
There is something particularly disturbing about efforts to indoctrinate children with positive ideas about American slavery. Sometimes, the fact that slavery even happened is conveniently overlooked. At other times, it is romanticized to the point of seeming more like a tough but rewarding job than chattel bondage. A new book called A Birthday Cake for […]
Social media has taken over the modern day teenagerās life. This pervasive adoption of technology has heightened the level of Internet protection education, but also the awareness that parents need to be involved with their childās digital behavior. While parents have every right to be involved in the multifaceted lives of their teens, where does […]
After a year of investigation, a grand jury, on Monday, chose not to indict Timothy Loehmann and Frank Garmback, the Cleveland patrolmen involved in the shooting and death of 12-year-old Tamir Rice last year.
A Chicago DJ passed away recently, but not without leaving one final words of wisdom. According to the Chicago Tribune, Timothy Jones, more commonly known by his music monicker “DJ Timbuck2”, died on Dec. 19 at the age of 34 following complications from renal cancer.
Everyone is freaking out after Steve Harvey announced the wrong winner of the Miss UniverseĀ pageant on Sunday evening. This is probably the first time that ever happened. This year was also the first time a contestant wore dreadlocks in the Miss World competition. Suffice it to say, it was an exciting weekendĀ in the pageant world.
There were several important political issuesĀ missing from TuesdayĀ night’s Republican debate in Las Vegas. Most noticeable was the repeated overlooking of recent acts of terror in this country committed by White men, namely the mass killingĀ last month at a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood, and the murder of nine Black congregantsĀ at Emanuel AME this summer. This is […]
A state representative in the Missouri House filed a bill on Monday that aims to punish student athletes who exercise their right to protest.
