A$AP Rocky didn't realize he was black until he got arrested in Sweden. Like OJ & MJ, A$AP never wanted to be seen as a black activist. Now he wants to use his blackness as credit card for convenience. Should Black Activists stand up for A$AP? Is A$AP Rocky a sellout or solider? What do you think? Let us know in the comments. #AsapRockyQuotes #AsapRocky
Background how Dawn Dickson circumvented VCs. https://link.medium.com/LZWl6Ho4AX Dawn Dickson’s start https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.blackenterprise.com/the-road-to-1-million-can-start-at-the-entrepreneurs-summit/amp/ Dickson’s Medical Marijuana Machines https://www.google.com/amp/www.blacknews.com/news/dawn-dickson-black-woman-raising-900k-medical-marijuana-vending-machines/amp/ Interview on Breakfast Club https://youtu.be/oejOtgPDkLU...
Zero Tolerance Trump https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/20/cost-us-immigrant-detention-trump-zero-tolerance-tents-cages.html 24 immigrants have died in ICE custody during the Trump Administration: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/24-immigrants-have-died-ice-custody-during-trump-administration-n1015291 1224 complaints reveal a staggering pattern of sexual abuse in immigration detention. Half of those accused worked for ICE. https://theintercept.com/2018/04/11/immigration-detention-sexual-ab...
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Rivers’ favorite bourbon to-date is Buffalo Trace Distillery’s Stagg Jr. and she has developed a fondness for the Paper Plane cocktail originated by mixologist Sam Ross. https://www.cuisinenoirmag.com/samara-rivers-black-bourbon-society/ Blacks drink bourbon you can't tell by the marketing https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/20/dining/drinks/bourbon-african-americans.html The decline of black businesses post integration https://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/marchaprilmay-2017/the-decline-of-black-b...
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline 800-273-TALK (8255) Stark Mental Health and Addiction Recovery https://starkmhar.org/ National Alliance in Mental Illness https://www.coreyempowers.com/ Visit: https://www.nami.org/About-NAMI Text: NAMI to 741741 for crosier intervention Call: 800-950-6264 Referenced Articles https://www.google.com/amp/s/theconversation.com/amp/how-to-heal-african-americans-traumatic-history-98298 https://www.yesmagazine.org/mental-health/research-shows-entire-black-communiti...
Patrol Agents joking about migrants racist about Latino lawmakers https://www.propublica.org/article/secret-border-patrol-facebook-group-agents-joke-about-migrant-deaths-post-sexist-memes Middle School Teacher side job was a ”secret” white supremacist podcast. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ja8BFVVTHI White Contractor turned away https://www.huffpost.com/entry/allison-zeke-brown-confederate-flag_n_5d1d2dd4e4b0f312567e7eac July 4th Nike, Kapernick and the original 13 star flag https://www.cnbc.co...
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Conservative Parkland survivor rejected for racist comments from Harvard https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/17/us/parkland-kyle-kashuv-harvard.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage Kyle Kashuv apologizes for using n word https://www.huffpost.com/entry/parkland-teen-kyle-kashuv-apologizes-racist-remarks_n_5ce6908be4b09b23e65ead62 Students agree with Harvard https://www.theblaze.com/news/poll-finds-that-most-people-seem-to-agree-with-harvard-university-and-not-parkland-studen...
Mitch Mcconnell Obama’s election was reparations https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/politics/2019/06/19/mitch-mcconnell-reparations-slavery-compensation-not-needed-after-obama-presidency/1497461001/ Balancing the Ledger on Juneteenth https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/06/juneteenth-and-reparations-hearing-house/592036/ Ta Nehisi Coates gives Mcconnell a lesson https://www.vox.com/identities/2019/6/19/18691735/ta-nehisi-coates-mitch-mcconnell-reparations-history-racism-slavery Slav...
Deval Laurdine Patrick is one of only 2 African-Americans to ever be elected governor in the United States. Born and raised by a single mother on the South Side of Chicago, Patrick earned a scholarship to Milton Academy in Massachusetts in the eighth grade. He went on to attend Harvard College and Harvard Law School, where he was president of the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau. After graduating, he practiced law with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund and later joined a Boston law firm, wher...
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Mueller tells Congress it’s your job to impeach. Republicans and Democrats have to decide will they do what’s politically convenient or will they fight for the rule of law and America. We are a nation of laws and we started in rebellion to a King. This is about our constitution and holding on to the principle that no one is above the law. I don’t care about losing an election as much as losing freedom and the rule of law.
Kirk Perry is an example of what opportunity can and should be in America. From the outside looking in Kirk Perry looks as if he had a seamless path. Working for two decades at Proctor and Gamble and now leading Google Brands. Mr. Perry is responsible for driving Google's revenue a trillion dollar company, with the world's largest advertisers and advertising agencies. But his path wasn’t always so easy, from growing up poor, to almost not making it through college, to health scares of cancer wit...
Maxine Waters was born in St. Louis, Missouri, the fifth of 13 children reared by a single mother. She began working at age 13 in factories and segregated restaurants. After moving to Los Angeles, she worked in garment factories and at the telephone company. She attended California State University at Los Angeles, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree. She began her career in public service as a teacher and a volunteer coordinator in the Head Start program. She is married to Sidney Williams...
Holley learned the ropes from Johnny Cochran during the Oj Simpson trail dubbed “the trial of the century.” In May 2018, Ms. Holley and Kim Kardashian West met with President Donald Trump at the White House to lobby for the release of Alice Marie Johnson, a first-time, non-violent drug offender who was serving a sentence of life without the possibility of parole. Ms. Holley and Ms. West were successful in persuading Mr. Trump to commute Ms. Johnson’s sentence in her twenty-second year of impriso...
Does black male privilege exist? If you talk to most black men they will openly agree that privilege is a real thing among their white male counterparts. However, if you ask is their black male privilege there is a wide variety of reactions and opinions. What does black male privilege look like? Is it the same white male privilege? Are there any unique responsibilities or obligations black men have toward black women?
Privilege is a loaded word that invokes strong reactions; especially from white people. After a Jazz fan got into a heated argument with Russel Westbrook, it was later discovered the fan had made racially charged comments. As Kyle Korver detailed in his article on white privilege; dealing with overt racism is easy, the harder issue is dealing with subtle racism that has overt results from education, employment, and our criminal justice system.
Something that was overlooked by the mainstream media in the coverage of the Mueller Report was how Russia focused on fueling racial tensions to influence the election. The Internet Research Agency was an organization created by Russia that stoked white fears and connected with the black protest movement to increase the chances of a Trump victory.
According to Michelle Alexander, author of the New Jim Crow, more black men are in prison or jail, on probation or parole than were enslaved in 1850, before the Civil War began. The recent Kerry Lanthan incarceration demonstrates how our criminal justice system is applied in ways that is oppressive to black men without regard for whether it is making us safer or rehabilitating people. The most logical explanation may be that the ideal of a fair administration of justice by the criminal justice s...
Laura Ingraham’s coverage of Nipsey Hussle continues to demonstrate her lack of skills as a journalist and as a human being. She can’t understand why others would mourn Nipsey’s death. This is because Ingraham doesn’t care about what is good for this country or what is even accurate. It’s all about inflaming the base to make money for Fox. Ingraham didn’t actually talk to people on the ground, instead she laughed at them. A father, community member and leader was shot down. I guess it’s too much...
Conspiracy theories popped up all over black Twitter and social media following the murder of Nipsey Hussle. Why did so many think his death was a conspiracy? Perhaps the answer is America has confirmed conspiracies against African Americans.
Nipsey Hussle was in many ways the personification of the American dream. He started off in the streets, joining the gang the 60s (Crips), going to prison but eventually turning his life around and having success as a rapper and entrepreneur. He went from hustling on the corner to owning the same corner he used to hustle on. When he became famous he didn’t move out or stop coming, instead, he came more became more accessible. He started STEM classes for kids, provided jobs for local youth and sh...
Andrew Gillum was not supposed to be the Democratic nominee for Florida governor. For the entire century nearly every gubernatorial candidate Democrat and Republican were millionaires. So when the political class, Democrats and Republicans saw he was running they all said he would lose. No way the son of a construction worker and bus driver will become the nominee.. He proved them wrong the nomination, along with the hearts and minds of millions. Though he lost the governor’s race by less than h...
Governing is hard but leading a diverse nation is even harder. More homogeneous democracies often have greater levels of social welfare (e.g. Sweden, Switzerland) Can anything be done about the discomfort some people will feel in diverse settings? Do diverse societies invite or create divisions that lead to scapegoating, which prevents underlying problems from being acknowledged and/or solved? Or does division and scapegoating always exist?
Growth in urban communities has been accelerating in the last decade. Areas that were for years considered unattractive and crime ridden have become the areas of economic growth and activity. This has had the unintended consequence (or intended consequences depending on your perspective) of dislocating poorer black and brown communities who have been there for decades. Our Disruptor of the week Terry Booty discusses how his company, Urban Farmers tackles the issues. Urban Farmers seeks to succes...
We are used to hearing scandals involving the recruitment of NCAA athletes. However, I have never heard of a scandal involving students posing as athletes. That is until actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin, along with multiple wealthy parents, paid a middleman (through a fake non profit) over 25 million dollars to bribe admissions officers and coaches to admit their kids as student athletes. Colleges will often admit athletes and lower the standards providing often sub par educational o...
The human brain is wired to be bias. The science is clear, everyone is bias without exception. Our minds tend to default to what we think know or what makes sense to us versus exploring the facts of each situation. While more information is available to us than ever before, society’s focus on insta twitter and instagram news allows everyone to conclude they are right without exception. Exploration, investigation and due process become secondary and all the while social media through programming ...
The fear of socialism is nothing new in America; But beyond the name what actually is socialism? How did the word socialism become such a tainted word? Now with Bernie Sanders and AOC socialism gaining in popularity. The ideas and the concepts around some so-claims have been around and are even part of the American fabric just as capitalism is. This current socialist scare isn't about socialism, it's about challenging the status quo.
