by admin | Aug 31, 2017 | CULTURE, Uncategorized
By Dr. Edward Beasley In many American public schools, Africa has been presented as a continent lacking a creditable history. Students have been taught to think of a dark continent far removed from civilization. But research reveals that students use African products...
by admin | Aug 30, 2017 | BUSINESS, Uncategorized
Interview With A Business Woman of Extraordinary Warmth by Bill Singleton, Jr. SINGLETON: You cannot do everything. LEWIS: That’s again one of the lessons Mr. Lewis learned. He was his own lawyer, his own accountant, his own engineer, his own and on and on, and...
by admin | Aug 30, 2017 | HUMAN RIGHTS
THE MEDIA & THE BLACK COMMUNITY BY C.Stone Brown Malcolm X once said that the mass media are able to make the victim appear to be the perpetrator and the perpetrator the victim. Malcolm X may have been one of the first black political scientist to observe this...
by admin | Aug 30, 2017 | MUSIC, Uncategorized
by Guadulesa As Blacks migrated in the late 1800’s from the Mississippi Delta, they carried their songs to industrial centers like St. Louis and Chicago. The blues, spirituals accompanied by staccato handclaps and the foot-produced drum sounds of plantation...
by admin | Aug 30, 2017 | BUSINESS
by Tracy Dixon Arthur G. Gaston, Sr. has amassed a fortune believed to be worth over $140 million from businesses he established to fill needs in the Black community. In the 1920s, when Blacks could not get decent burials, he founded a burial society. When White...
