When our Editorial Manager sent over this piece from Vizier, I was immediately impressed. He cuts cleanly through todays culture of regression with the kind of crisp insight the African Diaspora needs today. I know you will enjoy this article as much as we did. Make sure you check him out at www.hesofficial.blogspot.com. So without [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
This will not be a pretty post. Herein, we discuss very serious mental issues that are the direct result of what we have come to call Post Traumatic Slavery Disorder in Black conscious circles. Post Traumatic Slavery Disorder is the sum total of the emotional and psychological impact of our abduction and separation from Africa, [...]
The following is an anthropological experiment conducted in 1967 ( Sources: Stephenson, G. R. (1967). Cultural acquisition of a specific learned response among rhesus monkeys. In: Starek, D., Schneider, R., and Kuhn, H. J. (eds.), Progress in Primatology, Stuttgart: Fischer, pp. 279-288.) Begin the experiment by placing 5 monkeys is a cage. Tie a banana to the [...]
June is Economic Empowerment Month at United Black America. As we come to the collective realization that the American economy has changed forever, African-Americans find ourselves particularly vulnerable. This month, we will offer strategies and tactics on all things financial and economic. Stay up to date and subscribe to our email list here. “When [...]
Dr. Carter G. Woodson (Dec 19, 1857 – Apr 5, 1950) founder of Black History Month and author of The Miseducation of the Negro discusses problems that still plague African Americans and Africans today. His crowning achievement reveals to us how little progress has been made even a century later. The Miseducation of the Negro [...]
Between 1961 and 1973, six African independence leaders were assassinated by their ex-colonial rulers, including Patrice Lumumba of Congo. Very few Black men and women in America have heard of Lumumba, but his might have been one of the most significant political assassinations of the 20th century. Patrice Émery Lumumba (2 July 1925 – 17 [...]
I delete quite a few comments from idiots and trolls on a dily basis. I dont feel like they contribute to what we are trying to do here. But every now and then, I save particualarly nasty comments to show you what these good Americans secretly think about you. There is always someone who comes [...]
Kwame Nkrumah (21 September 1909 – 27 April 1972) was the first President of the first free nation in Africa – Ghana, and a founding father of the Pan-Africanist movement. His dream was to turn Ghana into a modern industrial utopia – a society shaped by the power of science that would serve as a [...]
