Culture, Race & Economy

It appears that society is becoming more and more complex and complicated to the point that soon you'll need to be a high IQ genius or have some extra super human talent just to be able to make a decent living, let alone be very successful. Back when I was a kid, and especially before..... All you had to be was of normal intelligence, normal looks, and pretty much no special talents.....and you could get a good job, build a loving family, and live a great middle class life. If you graduated from high school, were able bodied, and stayed out of jail....those were the ONLY qualifications needed to: -Get a good job. -Buy a house. -Buy a new car ever so m…

Well, now Barry is going to go on TV with the Republicans and discuss health care. It will be an above board discussion with no politics or dirty tricks. Right. The day after this atrocity he is going to look like an even bigger jackass than he does right now. What is wrong with the President? Is he Crazy? On a Mission? Over confident? Getting Bad Advice. He ought to just hang a sign on his back that sez "Kick Me" and get it over with.

"I come to realize that I'm wasting way too much time on here. The real movers and shakers aren't on here, just us everyday working joes. I want to be a mover and shaker. It's time to get my hustle on, so I will only be checking my FB once a week to post any signings or dj gigs I might have. FB is keeping us from making any real moves, it's a drug and I need to stop being a junky." --Anthony L. Wallace Is he right?

PATTY JACKSON'S 4-1-1 WEEK ENDING: May 27th 2011 After 14 years, Singer Faith Evans and her husband Todd Russaw are calling it quits. In court papers, they listed their separation year as 2005, but they had a child together in 2007. The couple is saying their split was a mutual decision. Evans is in talks to do a reality show with KeKe Wyatt, Kelly Price and Angie Stone. Motown Founder Berry Gordy says it’s time to set the record straight. He is putting together a Motown musical said to be costing $100 million. The music will detail his life and how he stared the famed label. Will he tell the truth? Will he talk about the love affair and secret love child with…

NEWS,THE BLACK CHURCH NOT SUPPORTING THE PRESIDENT BECAUSE OF GAY MARRIAGE..THE BLACK CHURCH SUPPORTS PREACHERS WHO CHEAT ON THEIR WIVES,BEAT THEIR WIVES AND KILL THEIR WIVES.YES BLACK PREACHERS HAVE KILLED THEIR WIVES...BLACK PREACHERS SUPPORT NAZI KLAN POLITICIANS FOR MONEY... HOMOSEXUALS ,IF THOSE PEOPLE ARE THE SPAWNS OF SATAN,WHY IS BISHOP EDDIE LONG ON THE PILPIT.BISHOP EDDIE LONG WAS SEXUALLY ROMANCING YOUNG BLACK MALES..WHY DID THE CHURCH NOT CONFRONT BISHOP EDDIE LONG,OR JESSE JACKSON,JESSE JACKSON JR SEX SCANDALS..PREACHER HENRY LYONS IN THE 1990'S WAS LOCKED UP FOR STEALING 4 MILLION DOLLARS.MONEY THAT WAS FOR BLACK CHURCHES THAT WAS BURNED …

Landmark documentary about residents' reaction to first black middle class family in (all white middle class area) Levittown (PA)

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Kanye West is a magnet for controversy. Love him or hate him, he bears watching because he epitomizes the excess and egoism that genius and success can give rise to. Here's a link to an article entitled: "Kanye's Frantz Fanon complex". I thought this article by Jessica Ann Mitchell was interesting. "I recently wrote an article called, “Harry Belafonte Was Right About Jay-Z.” The article went viral, generating a huge response from the Black community and beyond. A few readers were puzzled when I stated, “Kanye West…often laments about racism but strives to uphold the same materialistic values that help drive economic disparities.” Now, I will explore this more…

I have been looking at the truth for a bit more than a year yet I couldn't see it. When you get angryupset annoyed, it is not them it is you. So the anger or the love you feel to the other is the anger or love you feel for yourself. So being compassionate for others will save your life.

Your Presidency By: JonRenee Author: of Poetic Lyric Verse 1 ©2015 In 2004, I remember hearing a sermon by Pastor Trunell Felder from Chicago praying a prophetic word that, “In 2008, Barack Obama’s voice would be heard, not from his seat in the senate, but propelled in a position of presidency. Amen…..but men, have tried to bring him down and defame his character in the most disrespectful way. A black man in the white house, we thought we would never see the day….but this day, in my day, have I ever witnessed so much hate. I felt the pains of my ancestors at the same time the joy that mark the history of this day. His …

Well, I went out and did my civic duty by exercising the right those who came before me fought and died for. Casting my vote for a women for president now belongs right up there with the the other historical milestones I participated in when I voted for John F. Kennedy, the first Catholic president, and Barack Obama, the first black one, not to mention being a witness to the Chicago Cubs winning their first world series in 108 years. Now what? Is the turmoil that America is currently experiencing the natural result of a republic where the diverse population gradually evolved into "a house divided against itself". Can we stand? Are we overacting? Will this hectic…

ESPN Sports Talker Jemelle Hill Said President Trump Is A,Racist. Whitehouse Said She Should Be Fired. Trump Said Obama Was Not Born In This Country,,Trump Supports Neo Nazi,,He Has Done,Enough To Be Impeached,Said President Obama Was Spying On Him. ESPN Accepted Jemelle Hill Apology...Trump Is,Racist ESPN Knows It ,The Whitehouse Knows It. Trump Had,Neo Nazi Friends In The Whitehouse.....

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If. Jussie Smollett Is. Guilty. Of Organizing. The. Attack. On. ,Him,Putting. A. Noose ,Around. His. On. Neck,He. Should. Appologies,To. All The. Black. People. In. This. Country,Our Black,History Of Hangings,Lynchings,Black Women Were. ,Also,Hung From Trees. The Picture Of Emmett. Till. Brutal-Murder. The White Trash Woman Who Lied Accusing Emmett-Till,,She Is Alive,Living In Mississippi.She Admit She Lied..Neo, Nazi Police. Uniform Have Murdered. Black People, Deliberately...In ,front. Of,The. News,Cameras ,,Jussie Smollett Should. Apologies. To,His. People. Those. Alive. And. Those Dead.....Read…

For years I've been maintaining a list of the most popular Black-owned websites. That list of 50 websites is actually derived from a much longer list of over 300 websites. The idea was to track the web's largest Black-owned websites who attracted the most visitors. Again, I started the list years ago and expected it to grow, but to a point where it would be difficult to manage. Despite the pages being one of the most popular on the website, the list has actually been shrinking! I have to review the list periodically to check for websites that are no longer active. Usually the domains are quickly snapped up by other, often unrelated, websites trying to take…

Regardless of who wins this presidential election, how do you think African Americans currently see their social and political power potential for initiating needed changes? (After 30 years of teaching political science to the millennial generation, I'm curious about your perceptions of pessimism or optimism.)

There seems to be no functional relationship or cooperation on sustained basis between different communities of black people in the United States in the struggle against racism: African Americans, Africans, and Afro-Caribbeans. The initiative in the quest for solidarity among these groups seems to come from us, African Americans, although black people from Africa and from the Caribbean who come to the United States as immigrants and as students face the same problems we do as victims of racism. Solidarity with Africans on our part was demonstrated during the struggle against apartheid when African-Americans mobilized forces across the United State…

Black individuals know what they want for self. Many of us know the phrases. I want to be respected. I want money. I want to be a star. I want to be president. I is very easy for Black individuals in the usa or elsewhere. But if someone ask, What do you want for the Black community 50 years from now? that is when you get idealized or simplified or dysfunctional answers. In this very forum, I read many collective desires. Some examples I think black people need to think like me ,as if their mindset is absent any flaw I think black people need to stop blaming abuse by white people, as if white people never harm anyone black I think black peop…

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Information on panels and links to videos, the content has to be viewed on youtube, cause of its sensitive topic Organized by Loretta Green Williams , owner of Caribeme Magazine https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2130&type=status

Thoughts to her new work and the inspiration behind it, she stated in the video below https://music.tumblr.com/post/719620189872881664/artist-of-the-moment-janelle-mon%C3%A1e

So with all of these White men and women who've been calling the cops lying on innocent Black citizens, falsely accusing them of assault, falsely accusing them of having guns, swatting their homes with 911 calls, filing false police reports on Black folks and in so many of these cases innocent Black folks end up being killed or seriously injured because of LIES told on them -yet the LIARS don't get so much as time in the county jail. Not even a sentence to do community service and pick up some damn trash on the side of the highway. But look who DOES end up getting prison time for a silly attention-grabbing stunt in which NO ONE even got hurt: Woman who faked h…

New York State has levied more than $25 million in fines against unlicensed smoke shops while it has collected $22,500 in fines from unlicensed shops. Where is no mercy. Where is the black church? Where are the people in various black communities, offline or online like this one, that constantly complain about drug use or drug activity? I remember being a child in New York City, so many self righteous black people would get on white media and preach daily about drugs in the black community. Criminalizing any black person just trying to get by. Where are they now? Most people in the usa don't have a high school diploma, near 70%. Why did some Black people make it s…

I subscribe to YouTube Music and this popped up in my feed. I guess Google knows I would find this “interesting.” While I don’t purport to have my finger on the pulse of social media. I have not heard anyone wishing trump was killed.

Both of these countries are nuclear powers, and they're trading blows right now as we speak. Is World War 3 about to break out? Even though neither nation is technically "white", anything that threatens major and massive destruction on a global scale is a potential threat to White racist hegemony because of it's destablizing effects on the global economy and infrastructure. You KNOW it's serious because earlier this morning the war was on every media outlet. India hit Pakistan with missiles and airstrikes and Pakistan shot down several Indian fighter jets. That was this morning. Now a hot war between two nuclear powers is 5th or 6th down the story lin…

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-preparing-seize-more-tankers-off-venezuelas-coast-after-first-ship-taken-2025-12-11/ First, the US was blowing up boats under the guise of narco-terrorism. This week, the US has escalated into seizing oil tankers. Clearly, the US is in the process of forcing a regime change in Venezuela. The goal is to force President Nicolas Maduro into stepping down. POTUS OJ wasn't a warmonger during his 1st term. I'm guessing he feels weakened since Russian President Vlady Putin won't stop pummeling Ukraine. POTUS OJ has found a punching bag In Venezuela. There is no real outrage or push-back a…

Today’s Wall Street Journal in an interesting article titled; ”Obesity? Big Feet? Blame Darwin”, sites a 2009 Gallup poll which found 44% of Americans believe that God created human beings, in their present form, within the past 10,000 years. 'nuff said

Well, Troy, you asked me whether it was easier to raise kids 60 years ago than it is now, and - you know what happens when you pose a question to me… Back then, kids were kids. Having a baby was just a routine part of life. You got married in your early twenties and in a couple of years started a family. Children were kept in perspective. You had em, you raised em and tried to teach em right from wrong. You often made sacrifices for them. If they were ambitious enough to want to go to college, you got a second job and sent them off to an institution of higher learning. You might have even exhausted your bank account to give your daughter a big wedding. Then, you c…

Something else to share in my ongoing quest to add an "eclectic" flavor to this board. Holy Land in 3D 360 degrees all around Amazing! After you are viewing, you can take your curser and look up &down anywhere as if you were standing there......read all of the directions first. http://www.360tr.com/kudus/kiyamet_eng/index.html This is the Church of Holy Sepulcher. The place Jesus died and was buried. There are nine pictured 3D areas that you can access. The last one is inside the Crypt, where he was buried. This is really something..You might say it's the next best thing to being there.This is amazing. It is your trip to the H…

Oscar Grant's Shooting was recorded by witnesses and uploaded to Youtube: Grants story was captured in the new film Fruitvale Station, which we reviewed. What I don't understand is why I had never heard this story until I learned about this film. I did a search of Oscar Grants name on this website and there was nothing (other the information about this film) which is unusual -- especially back then -- because we usually hit on most of the topics of the day. This story, unlike Travon's was captured on film and has tons of eye witnesses. The shooting was inexplicable. The police officer who served just two years in prison say he was confuse…

THE 15TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION OF SLAM, LAUNCHING A 4-DAY MASTERCLASS SERIES WITH AWARD-WINNING FILMMAKER MARC LEVIN (DECEMBER 5-8, 2013) Tonight the Maysles Cinema brings you the film that captivated critics and judges from Sundance to Cannes and turned slam poetry into the global phenomenon it is today: Marc Levin's SLAM. Join acclaimed poet and performer Saul Williams, Sonja Sohn (of The Wire), Bonz Malone, Bob Holman, Liza Jessie Peterson, Richard Stratton and Marc Levin at the Dempsey Auditorium in Harlem (127 W. 127th Street) for the 15th Anniversary of this seminal film and the first gathering of the talent behind it since 1998. The discussion will be…

DONALD STERLING SEEM TO BE OBSESSED WITH MAGIC JOHNSON/I SUPPOSE ITS BECAUSE WHILE HE OWN THE CLIPPERS 30 YEARS,HE WATCHED MAGIC AND THE LAKERS WHEN CHAMPIONSHIPS//LEBRON JAMES SAID IF DONALD STERLING STILL OWNS THE CLIPPERS WHEN NEXT SEASON BEGINS THERE SHOULD BE A NBA BOYCOTT//UNLIKE SOME BLACK ENTERTAINERS MAGIC JOHNSON IT INVOLVED IN THE BLACK COMMUNITY/AS FOR DONALD STERLING PLANTATION SOUNDING..THERE ARE BLACK PREACHERS,POLITICIANS AND NAACP ACT LIKE HOUSE NEGROES, PLANTATION OVERSEER'S OF THEIR OWN PEOPLE//AVERAGE BLACK PEOPLE HAVE TO PUT UP WITH DONALD STERLINGS…

We will be interviewing Jordan Davis's parents on Friday, if you have any question for them please post them below, we will try to work them into the interview. In 3 1⁄2 MINUTES, TEN BULLETS, two lives intersected and were forever altered. On Black Friday in 2012, two cars parked next to each other at a Florida gas station. A white middle-aged male and a black teenager exchanged angry words over the volume of the music in the boy’s car. A gun entered the exchange, and one of them was left dead. Michael Dunn fired 10 bullets at a car full of unarmed teenagers and then fled. Three of those bullets hit 17-year-old Jordan Davis, who died at the scene. Arrested the next day,…

“...[Trump] may not be good for America, but it’s damn good for CBS...” This is outrageous admission from a news organization, and clearly articulates the problem with what we euphemistically describe as journalism today. The behavior of CBS and their peers is THE reason Donald has a great chance of actually becoming the president of the united states. Ok we know the POTUS is a figurehead largely responsible for doing the bidding of the ultra rich, but to actually elect of of these guys is alarming. But hey in a culture fed on reality TV and celebrity, what do you expect? The most outrageous and the most popular wins.

Hillary Clinton did win the popular vote. So her entrenched constituency came through for her. Her problem was that she didn't make any converts. Apparently, the "undecided" voters ended up going for Donald Trump because they were fed up with the Black lives matter movement, with the LGBT community, with Plannned Parenthood, with Mexican Immigrants, with the Muslim presence, with Native American protests, with the assumption that celebrities would influence how they voted, and last but no least, with the idea of Hillary Clinton perpetuating the liberal agenda that Barak Obama represented. Opposing all of this is what they truly believed would make America great again. Thi…

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Honestly, don't know if these are the oldest Black-owned websites. They are the oldest ones in my database of 300+ websites, which by my reckoning, is as good a source as any for this information. Of course it you are aware of a site I've missed please be sure to tell me. I'm mostly interested in larger content rich websites, not the site of an individual blogger, but if there is a Black blogger out there who has been be producing content for 20, 25 years or longer, on the same domain, I'm DEFINITELY interested in that writer. That said Howard University sites will be 30 years old next year -- that is ancient by web standards. Today I teach a college cou…

How could we know until we understand consciousness? I don't think any symbol is real. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-the-universe-made-of-math-excerpt/ https://medium.com/however-mathematics/everything-in-our-life-has-only-mathematical-patterns-504a0e87ab3 How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought which is independent of experience, is so admirably appropriate to the objects of reality? Albert Einstein… One evening a few years ago, I was with friends from the college at the backyard of the college, and talking about the relationship between science and mathematics. One of my friends’ friends made a comment,…

Chev @Chevdove You said: But the Assyrians [ie White Syrians] formed late Ok, so the Assyrians were the White Syrians? Assyrians = White Syrians? I just want to confirm and put a check next to that so I can continue. But the Assyrians [ie White Syrians] formed late at the time of the Greater Babylonian Empire times, around 2000s BC. Ok, now WHO was running Babylon by the time of around 500 BC? Around the time when Jews were allegedly being held captive in Bab'il....was it the Assyrians/ "white Syrians" still, or another group primarily in charge of Bab'il? …

I am the editor of a new anthology of liminality entitled, The Liminal Loop: Astonishing Stories of Discovery and Hope (The Lutterworth Press, 2022). 200 pages, 65,000 words, trade paperback. Eighteen international contributors. Of special interest to AALBC and this Forum is one particular chapter of the anthology, a contribution that is absolutely unique. Phil Jones, Jr. has written a poem/reflection on how the black experience is liminal experience, defined by the margins, intersections, and culture of the in-between. His chapter is entitled, "Unknownland, Blackness and Liminality." His words are powerful, deeply informed, and integrate a whole n…

@Chevdove @Franchesca ((but obviously anyone can chime in)) Why did God allow it? Both of you seem to love quoting the Bible and the prophecies of the Bible and how it relates to the plight and destiny of Black people here in the United States. An often favorite prophecy pointed to is the one in Genesis where "Abraham's seed" is supposed to be oppressed for over 400 years and then rescued. But my question to you two is why did God ALLOW our people to go through that in the first place? I know it's prophecied in scripture, however did it HAVE TO go down that way? What was the purpose of allowing our people to suffer for hundreds …

Florida. Governor. Hates. Black. History. Want. To. Stop. It. From,Being. Taught. In. Florida.. Republican. Governor. Just. Like ,,Trump ..Trying. To. Keep. White. Supremacy. Going.....The. Racist,White. Know. Black. History. Better. Than. A. Lot. Of. Black. ,People. .Black. Inventors. Inventions. Help. Evolve. The. World......The. Black. Athletes. In. Florida. Needs. To. Protest. ,,If. The,Colleges. Support. The. Governor. Trying. To. Stop. Black. ,History. Being. Taught. .They. Want. Black. Athletes. To. Help. Win,Games. But. Their. History. Not. Important Enough. To. Be,Taught......Super. Bowl. Eagles. Were. Robbed. Game,. Was. ,Fixed. For. The. Chiefs. Referees. …

Well, Black people got a huge basket of good news on Thursday, June 8. Because the U.S. Supreme Court did not shatter what’s left of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Instead, by a 5-4 margin, a coalition of conservative and liberal justices reaffirmed the court's 1986 precedent interpreting how legislative districts must be drawn under the landmark voting rights act, as amended in 1982. After years of court defeats and being battered backwards by state after state when it comes to voting rights, the Supreme Court did something so surprising, even that dreaded oaf Clarence Thomas filed a 50-page complaint-objection. The court said that in Alabama, a state where there …

The answer is: NEITHER ONE Both the Jews and Palestinians are descendants of invaders who came to that land to displace the former inhabitants. Most of the Jews of today are White and of European descent who took the land from the Palestinians after WWII. Most of the Palestinians are mixed raced descendants of Arab and Greeks who invaded and took the land thousands of years ago from the Original owners. If you believe the Bible, the Israelites who USED to live on the land for hundreds of years before becoming dispossessed a couple times themselves took it from the Original owners. Well, who are these "original owners" that I speak of? The Kena'ani…

https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/15/politics/kfile-jd-vance-comments-trump/index.html Former POTUS Orange Julius has selected Senator JD Vance (Ohio) as VP pick. Sen. Vance is 39 years old. Look no further than 2016 when JD Vance couldn't stand former POTUS OJ. His criticism is available for everyone to read and hear. Somehow, as POTUS, OJ supposedly made JD Vance believer in his vision for America. Yeah right.😁 White folks will change political parties and ideologies as easily as changing clothes or dance partners. The Dems might start begging and pleading with Black folks votes if they're interested in maintainin…

How about that? The new Pope is from Chicago . Let's hear it for LeoXIV!

Comedian Jimmy Kimmel ran afoul of the current administration in his monolgue referencing the unalived white nationalist was killed by one of MAGA's own. The FCC chairman had already threatened to punish Jimmy Kimmel for his remarks. Parent company Nexstar went a step further in sitting him down indefinitely. This comes on the heels of AG Pam Bondi saying hate speech will be prosecuted. Nevermind having to hurdle the 1st amendment. Jimmy Kimmel is already rich. He's not worried about having a job or money. Being censored is the bigger concern. Now, the average person with a *job* has to worry about what they tweet, post or…

https://www.npr.org/2025/12/09/nx-s1-5637426/democratic-rep-jasmine-crockett-launches-bid-for-u-s-senate-in-texas Rep. Crockett has already been a rising star in the democratic party. She's definitely one ofnits nail fire brand politician. I hope Rep. Crockett has a top notch security detail. She needs to be protected. 😎

Sooo, what happened to Pioneer's post registering a protest over my posts responding to his attacks - push-backs that he attributed to my being so enamoured of his charms that I couldn't refrain from harassing him, daring to have the gall to deflate his ego and render him unable to take what he dished out. Maybe Pioneer took this post down after ProdD, our resident voice of reason, defused his ire. Or perhaps, as Troy warned could happen, Pioneer's "ultimatum" got lost in the shuffle of this forum being re-vamped. Whatever, since Trump has become his new role model, 🤡 maybe Pioneer will just declare a victory and move on to his next fiasco. Me? I'…

Quick... Rabbi Marvin Hier? What, his name is not on the Who's Who of the great black leaders of history. Well, of course not. How about Simon Wiesenthal, have you heard of him? Of course you have... I think? Rabbi Marvin Hier is the Dean and Founder of the Los Angeles based, Simon Wiesenthal Center. But Carey, what does that have to do with Black History Month? Well, I can show you, better than I can tell you. Come on, I'm gonna take you by a friend's house. He's actually a turtle but we are going to listen in on a conversation between him and The Wizard. There they are over there, over there by that Wishing Well. Hush up, be quiet, listen: Wizard: …