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I was on a website this morning whose stated mission is quoted in the subject of this post; "Our goal is to empower all Black communities to invest in one [an]other." I have added it to my site list Black-owned websites, but I could not help but think this site has prominent links to Facebook, Twitter, Google, and Pinterest social media platforms! Surely there are Black owned social media platforms we can promote.instead? @NubianFellow can you list a few Black owned social media platforms that provide a social sharing icon that can be used by web sites that purportedly invest and empower Black communities? At some point we HAVE to stop feeding the beast and recognize the fact that every time we prominently display the logos of Facebook and Twitter on our sites we providing FREE promotion for these sites (as if they need it) and telling the world we think these sites are important -- indeed more important than our own! We are also are hurting our own indie websites in the process. Now if I wanted to promote AALBC on that site that supposedly invests in Black folks, I better have some money! Does anyone see how messed up this is? Sure, I understand why folks do it. I have social haring buttons on AALBC. Markers say you have to be where audience is. However if your goal is to invest in one another we have to actually do that.

@NubianFellow You repeatedly stress how blacks were uprooted from their African roots. To this day they are still America's step children. Everything that you are claiming and advocating about black hair is nothing new. It has been a subject of discussion for at least a century. Back in the 1960s, a "black is beautiful" craze swept the country and Afros were in. But gradually things leveled off and what black women did with their hair split out. So, why was black brainwashing unable to permanently uproot white brain washing when it came to hair? Possibly because that ol adage about "when in Rome, do as the Romans do" permeated the subconscious minds of black women who are aware that their hair is a manifestation of their past. But, perhaps because the past is so depressing, they want to live in the present where they can exercise their freedom to wear their hair any way they choose. Yeah, i know we are supposed to learn from the past. But maybe that's what the lesson is. And I wouldn't bet on little black girls not choosing a Nikki Minaj doll over a Lady GaGa one or a Michelle Obama picture over a Melania Trump one in today's America. Give it rest, handsome. (why did you delete your video?) You also have choices, and there are plenty of bushy-haired sistas out there, ready to rock your world!

@Pioneer1 because you are confusing my reality with your reality. You also believe that YOUR reality is the ONLY reality. Reality is relative.

Ida B. Wells is a Chicago treasure. Her descendants still live here and she is buried here. i went to the U of Illinois with 2 of her grandsons. A large housing project once bore her name but was eventually demolished. Recently her great-grandaughter was instrumental in having a major thoroughfare in the city named after her. A great woman, indeed.