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Lil Wayne and Nicki Minaj…Teacher Awards?

When a rapper with racy lyrics and an image portraying sex and drugs is just a way of life and a female rapper confusing the a generation of females to think they’re all Barbies… is honoring them as teachers just society laying down and accepting the status quo? I’m just sayin Via BlackNews.com Nationwide (February [...]

Eddie Barnett Jr. Foundation – Still keeping his memory alive

By Landra Glover It’s been seven years since that fatal day when Teena Johnson’s son Eddie Barnett Jr. collapsed on Madison High School’s gymnasium floor while playing in a basketball game. An autopsy later revealed that Eddie had died due to a heart condition called Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (HCM)which is usually discovered after it’s too late. [...]

Real Talk: Roundtable with Mayor Sam Adams on the Oppression of Black Nightlife

If you like this post..Please be sure to check my boy’s Blog Black Collar In a medium-sized city like Portland, Oregon where Black people make up a dismal 6% of the population, it’s not hard to imagine that African American culture is stifled at every turn. Two huge parts of any culture are music and [...]

African-Americans buying power to reach $1.1 trillion…

My question is what are we buying and why are we not investing?? African Americans wield considerable consumer power by Staff October 19, 2011 WASHINGTON, D.C.– African-Americans’ buying power is expected to reach $1.1 trillion by 2015, according to The State of the African-American Consumer Report, released today, collaboratively by Nielsen, a leading global provider [...]