Don Cornelius, ‘Soul Train’ Creator, Is Dead Don Cornelius was a part of my childhood. I can clearly remember Saturaday mornings in Grandmommas house dancing down the line. Suicide? Robbery? Regardless, Don will live forever in my memories!
Don Cornelius, ‘Soul Train’ Creator, Is Dead Don Cornelius was a part of my childhood. I can clearly remember Saturaday mornings in Grandmommas house dancing down the line. Suicide? Robbery? Regardless, Don will live forever in my memories!
BOOKMARK THIS PAGE! YOU WILL WANT TO COME BACK TO IT OVER AND OVER AGAIN! You wont find this list anywhere else on the web, because it is my personal list. I subscribe to each and every one of theses sites, and use them as reference points for what I do here – both online and offline. If you...
Another warrior passes into legend. The boxing great Joe Frazier died last night in hospice care from terminal liver cancer. Frazier, who won a gold at the 1964 Olympics, had a bomb of a left hook and the agility of a ballerina. He approached the boxing ring wine intelligence of a chess master and the heart of a real...
Is it contradictory for “Christians” to be celebrating a holiday like Halloween? Are you caving into societal pressure by letting your kids dress like demons and knock on strangers’ doors to beg for chemically engineered “treats”? We already know that holidays have become platforms for corporate profiteering (North American almanacs of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century give...
Its took Ghana 50 years to recover from supporting the CIA led overthrowing and killing of Kwame Nkrumah. I hope we Africans can learn from our past mistakes and stop repeating them by supporting the Imperialists wars. “How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don’t think” — Adolf Hitler “The media’s the most powerful entity on earth....
“A politician is someone who gets in front of a mob and tries to call it a parade.” – Unknown I am not a big fan of America’s first Black President lately. Its one thing to launch all these diversionary tactics in a half baked attempt to distract Americans from the real issues at hand, its another to hypocritically...
With 5,157 Facebook likes in just a few short days, the #OccupytheHood movement seems to be gaining some positive momentum. I swear, this is a beautiful thing! Occupy the Hood is the brainchild of Malik Rhasaan, a construction worker and father of three from South Jamaica, Queens, and Ife Johari Uhuru, a stylist specializing in natural hair and mother...
In October, we honor Christopher Columbus, who opened the Atlantic slave trade and launched one of the greatest waves of genocide known in history. Most children educated in the United States can remember singing about “when Columbus sailed the ocean, blue”, but why is it that he is celebrated as a hero? Why are our children taught to glorify...
Sylvia Robinson passed into legend on September 29, 2011 of heart failure at the age of 75. She came onto the music scene in the 1950s and had several hits, including “Love Is Strange,” which was a No. 1 R&B song in 1956. She also had a solo hit in 1973 with her self-made “Pillow Talk.” She was credited...
Listen up people, United Black America needs your help! A lot of you found the 13 Best Black Sites on the Web pretty useful, and that got us to wondering; What sites are out there that we haven’t heard of? We love the big sites (Very Smart Bros, Afro Nerd) and we are no strangers to the FreshXpress, but...