Why does Wayne State University graduate less than 15% of its black students in 6 years? Why do Detroit Public Schools graduate less than 50% of their students in 4 years? Why the incarceration rate for African-American women has increased by 800% since 1986? Has the influx of rappers and entertainers that embrace criminal lifestyles [...]
Some of you loved Part one of this series, some of you didn’t. Some of you ripped my first round of selections pretty viciously. It’s all love over here though, and personally, I enjoy the debate.As I told one commenter, music is subjective. If you are from Los Angeles, your list is most likely different [...]
Of all figures in Black Consciousness, few were as controversial as the former Supreme Captain of the Nation of Islam and Chairman of the New Black Panther Party. Minister Khalid Abdul Muhammad was a towering intellect, a true warrior of Pan-Africanism, and a courageous visionary. He dared to speak truth to power in the face of [...]
As I wrote one of our previous articles, The 127 Best Black Websites Online, I noticed how hard it was for me to find decent, Afrocentric sites that werent pornography or music related. It seems that African-Americans and Blacks worldwide are still behind when it comes to publishing on the internet. Sad, since it is [...]
For those of us who would rather set ourselves on fire than vote for Romney, we might find ourselves forced to vote for the lesser of two evils. I mean, lets be honest – Obama aint done shit to help Black America unless you count his healthcare bill (and even that wasnt our first chice [...]
In the area of America that I currently live in, racism is a way of life. African-Americans in Louisville, Kentucky have been marginalized, preyed upon politically and economically, and isolated from the rest of the city. Many African-Americans within the city live behind an invisible wall – called the 9th Street Wall – that divides [...]
“The limits of tyrants are prescribed by those whom they oppress.” - Frederick Douglass The above quote is powerful, and deserves some meditation. In short, it tells us that we can only be oppressed up to the point that we allow it. We can only be mis-educated, dis-empowered, disenfranchised, and destroyed to the point that we allow [...]
United Black America presents the BEST Black websites, African American websites, African websites, and black dating websites on the net. You wont find a list like this anywhere else! All links are regularly checked. These websites are all alive, malware free, and regularly updated. If you dont see your favorite site on this list, leave [...]
All servants imported and brought into the Country. . . who were not Christians in their native Country. . . shall be accounted and be slaves. All Negro, mulatto and Indian slaves within this dominion. . . shall be held to be real estate. If any slave resists his master. . . correcting such slave, [...]
No, this isnt a post about white supremacists shooting the country up. Ive talked about The Mental Disease of White Supremacy plenty. Yesterday, Nyesuada and I had a conversation about the state of Black culture, and how it came to its current state of decay. I recommended to him (as I recommend to you) a [...]
