My heart and prayers go out to the family of our Super Hero, King Chadwick Boseman. He died after a four year battle with colon cancer. He was 42. Boseman gave us his best on the big screen and in the community all while having surgeries and chemotherapy treatments. A job well done, you can […]
Love is verb, an action word. Hate is as well. As a humanitarian, I ground myself in love in order to challenge divisive hate. So when Fox Business Analyst Charles Payne asked me to defend words of mine that were ultimately tweeted by Gavin Long, the alleged shooter of several police officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, […]
A former Nixon aide recently confirmed that the 37th United States president’s war on drugs was indeed a racist endeavor meant to take out blacks as well as liberals. Jeff Johnson explains why this is really no surprise, and what else this information should clue us in on, in this edition of 3 Things You Should Know on “The Rickey Smiley Morning […]
The Atlantic's Ta-Nehisi Coates is back with a probing analysis titled "The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration."
In today’s soul crushing ’80s childhood hero admissions, Hulk Hogan was ousted from the WWE when footage of past racist remarks surfaced. And while…
According to new data from the Department of Education, graduation rates for Black and Hispanic students increased by nearly four percentage points from 2011 to 2013, outpacing…
As Selma opens this weekend in theaters nationwide, a controversy has erupted babout its historical accuracy, and whether then-President Lyndon B. Johnson’s actions were righteous…
Here’s some good news you probably won’t read a lot about: Black and Latino students have cut their dropout rates by more than half over…
Suffering from type 2 diabetes or worried that you might be at risk? The results of a new study show that dodging this all too common disease could be as easy as changing what goes on your plate. African-Americans who follow a vegetarian diet and exercise at least three times a week see significantly reduced […]
When did African Americans join the Republican Party? Actually before and after reconstruction. During the civil rights era of the 1960’s it’s recorded that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr fought against democrats who stood in the schoolhouse doors, turned fire/water hoses on blacks and let loose vicious dogs. http://images.nbra.info/docs/library/NationalBlackRepublicanAssociation2009/Democrats%20Smeared%20MLK%20in%20the%201960’s.pdf Some notable republicans: Condoleeza Rice-First Africian […]
