Recently @Pioneer1 asked, "Are Things Better Today Than 40 or 50 Years Ago?" One thing that is worse is the lack of reputable sources of news, covering topic important to Black folks.

There is no shortage of individuals spouting opinions, but far fewer sources of true journalism. Journalism where verified factual information is collected and presented with as little bias as possible.

It is so bad today, people reject facts in favor of anything that comports with their current worldview; even rejected science in favor of their own research typically sources from individuals spouting opinions or just outright lying.

I lean liberal so I listen to NPR fairly regularly and I'll get headline from Democracy Now every now and then. I have subscriptions to the Amsterdam News and the Afro. That sadly is about it for me. I really liked Emerge back in the day.

Where do you consume news and information important to Black folks?

First of all let us make an important distinction: There's a huge difference between Black Journalists and Black Journalism

While there are thousands of Black Journalists around the nation.....you can see them on almost every venue....I think Black Journalism has taken a HUGE hit in these past 40 or 50 years.
The schools in the United States simply aren't producing enough professional and qualified pro-Black students who want to grow up and be Journalists for the community to cover our issues (Black Journalism).

I mentioned many times before that back in the day, just like nearly every Black community in America had it's own news paper....nearly every Black highschool and even some middle schools had a news paper!
Black children who were interested and showed talent learned how to gather information and present it to the public.
If you were "fortunate" enough to go to a Black school.....you grew up learning HOW to present information to other Black people who were your primary and target audience.

Integration killed it.

Having said that:

I'll go to the mainstream media for general news including the news the pertains to us and compliment it.
A few sources I go to to compliment the news I get from the mainstream media would be:

News - Final Call News

Indisputable with Dr. Rashad Richey - YouTube

Tariq Radio - YouTube

And several other outlets.

I know many of them aren't official news sources, but the people often present information that they've gathered about a story that affects US that was left out of the mainstream press.

Oh, puleeze. Journalism is journalism. There should be no difference between black journalists and any other ones. The truth is the truth, facts are facts, objectivity is the gold standard. Ideally, jouralism fufills its role of shining the light in dark places in order to expose and report events. (Fox News epitomizes the violation of journalistic principles and, imo, we don't need black counterparts of it.)

Actually, there's no such thing as an official black point of view anymore because Blacks have diversified their politics and are found on both sides of the political spectrum. There's no guarantee that exclusively black oriented news outlets won't be inaccurate and misleading and sponsor-controlled.

Op-ed is the designated domaine for people who want to air grievances and promote their point of view and you dont't have to be a journalist to utilize it.

Admittedly, however, the Fourth Estate, like all of Society's other traditional institutions, has strayed from its principles, and the news media has become compromised, and lost much of its credibility with everybody, not just Blacks.

I confess to gravitating toward any source that reinforces my moderate middle of the road beliefs so I check out the racially-mixed, bi-partisan panel groups on CNN and MSNBC and - dare I say it, snap shots on - FaceBook, that provide a digest of political reels featuring pod casters and pundits and outraged celebrities ranting against Trumpism.

And, because I've become so fed-up with the futility of it all, - with "the- more-things-change-the-more-they-become-the-same" vibe that is permeating the country, I still faithfully watch Bill Maher. I like, in addition to having an interesting cross section of guests, his hilarious MAD MAGAZINE approach to current events, reducing everything to sly humor, deflating and chastising the Far Left, and ridiculing the dumb-ass MAGA crowd.

He's a true iconoclast.

Bill Maher is a straight up racist.
...and banging Black women doesn't change this fact.

41 minutes ago, Pioneer1 said:

Bill Maher is a straight up racist.
...and banging Black women doesn't change this fact.

The same could be said for you.

31 minutes ago, aka Contrarian said:

The same could be said for you.

'specially if YOU'RE the one saying it.

I, likewise, considered the source when responding to your opinion about Bill Maher.

I suspected Bill Maher was a racist years ago when he was criticizing Arabs and asked where was the "Chris Rock" of the Arab world to hold Arabs accountable for their behavior.
.....revealing that he along with many other Whites not only approved of but held Chris Rock's "Blacks vs Niggas" routine in high regard when it comes to criticizing the Black community and wished there were Arabs who were just as bold in doing so.

Everybody is a racist; including you, and your notions about black superiority.

Racism is like a verb. It can be active or passive.

I notice during our little exchange that you have YET to deny that Maher infact IS a racist.

You acknowledge it, and ignore it......because he's a White man you love.

I don' t know whether he's a racist or not.And don'tcare. The only thing I find appealing about him is his humor, not that it's any of your damned business.

5 minutes ago, aka Contrarian said:

I don' t know whether he's a racist or not.And don'tcare. The only thing I find appealing about him is his humor, not that it's any of your damned business.

And therein lays the problem.

He's a white man YOU find appealing......you admit that you don't care if he's racist or not.



If these were the days of Slavery, we know where YOUR loyalty would lie: In between the sheets of your Master.

"Oh massa Bill......
When dem ole nigraz be callin' you a racist
I don't pay them fools no neva' mind!
You'z good to ME...and dat's all dat matters!"

@Pioneer1 As usual , you distorted what I said to compose your strawman argument. You don't know any other way to represent yourself. Lying is second nature to you.

You are truly one of the few black man I can't stand. You are the embodiment of everything that I dislike in a person.

Technology has lowered the barrier to entry in a number of areas.

Journalism is one such area. Even with an abundance of disposable content, there's still outlets for good Black journalism.

Nowadays, good Black journalism can be found in local publications & podcasts. Really depends on what the reader wants to know.😎

Posting pictures of yourself all over the internet grinning and grabbing on different men.
.....that says a lot.

@Pioneer1 You, of all people, complaining about people posting pictures. That says a lot about you and your phony-assed self, not to mention the false claim of the pix being "all over the internet". Incidentally, it's the same person in both photos.

You are so full of BS.

18 hours ago, aka Contrarian said:

Incidentally, it's the same person in both photos.

Good
So now you'll only have to apologize to ONE person for spreading their picture all over the internet without their permission.

As a matter of fact..........

On 6/12/2026 at 10:43 PM, aka Contrarian said:

@Pioneer1 As usual , you distorted what I said to compose your strawman argument. You don't know any other way to represent yourself. Lying is second nature to you.

You are truly one of the few black man I can't stand. You are the embodiment of everything that I dislike in a person.

@Pioneer : I know this will be difficult for you since you're allergic to accuracy but can you, for one moment, divest yourself of the defective lens you view the world through and tell me how those pictures of me are "all over the internet". And WHO is it you mistakenly presume I owe an apology to?

Otherwise, stfu.

On 6/11/2026 at 6:13 PM, Pioneer1 said:

I know many of them aren't official news sources, but the people often present information that they've gathered about a story that affects US that was left out of the mainstream press.

Yes, this is the problem I'm pointing out. Mainstream media never really covert our stories sufficiently and the vacuum left by the dearth of Black journalism is filled by the likes of Rashad and Tariq I'm sure they are entertaining. But like Roland Martin or Steven A. Smith they are just spouting opinions. Probably better than nothing but not the same as having a newsroom.

The Final Call is better than all of the above IMHO, but they have an obvious bias to the Nation's ideals.

On 6/11/2026 at 9:18 PM, aka Contrarian said:

There should be no difference between black journalists and any other ones. The truth is the truth, facts are facts, objectivity is the gold standard. Ideally, jouralism fufills its role of shining the light in dark places in order to expose and report events. (Fox News epitomizes the violation of journalistic principles and, imo, we don't need black counterparts of it.)

Period. ...Mic drop.

On 6/11/2026 at 9:18 PM, aka Contrarian said:

I still faithfully watch Bill Maher.

Yeah, I watch Bill Maher as well. But I would never confuse him we with being source of journalism any more than Tariq Nasheed. What Maher does do is expose me to the opinions of people I would not otherwise encounter. He had Mike Pence on recently and I did now know Mike could smile or any semblance of a personality.

Maher can be funny, but I'm not sure I would actually like him as a person. I suspect Maher is less racist than the average wealthy white man in American. He seems to love Donna Brazille, Neil Degrass-Tyson, John McWorther, Van Jones, Killer Mike, and others liberals and right-wingers are frequently on the show.

IMO, Bill Maher is a comedian who has a platform to use political discourse for entertainment & a distraction away from racism white supremacy while justifying & propping it up. His guests are carefully selected too.😎

Bill Maher is CONTROLED opposition.

He's a racist White man who works for the racists in power to give the so-called "Left" their talking points.
To help stir their argument in a way that is less threatening to the powers that be and less effective in defeating the right-wing.

1 hour ago, Pioneer1 said:

Bill Maher is CONTROLED opposition.

He's a racist White man who works for the racists in power to give the so-called "Left" their talking points.

Bill Maher is a rich atheist who smokes weed & likes to bang Black women.

Maher is the most dangerous type of controlled opposition. A white man who is unafraid to smile in Black folks faces & f8ck them twice. He has zero love for Muslims.😎

@ProfD: Contrary to what that numb skull Pioneer tries to infer, I don't find Maher an attractive, charming Renaissance Man. He probably is a benign racist, like most people are, no matter what color their skin is.

But when it comes to mocking political correctness and the "woke" insomniacs, and deflating those who take themselves too seriously, I'm on Bill's wave length.

Unlike conflicted black patriots infected with the Stockholm Syndrome, who revere the land that has spawned their persecutors, I'll embrace the philosophy of MLK, and judge people by the content of their character.

Maher being an iconoclast resonates with me.

btw, Maher did donate a million dollars to Obama's campaign.

7 hours ago, aka Contrarian said:

btw, Maher did donate a million dollars to Obama's campaign.

Maher definitely put his money where his mouth is in donating to the campiagns of POTUS Obama & other candidates too.

I don't believe Maher is undercover MAGA but he is Democratic racist suspect. He questions why Black folks don't speak up for Jews as if we should have some type of empathy for them & he seems to think Islam is a threat to white supremacy.

I have watched & listened to Bill Maher for a long time. I don't think he would be an ally if a race war popped off.😎

22 hours ago, ProfD said:

Maher is the most dangerous type of controlled opposition. A white man who is unafraid to smile in Black folks faces & f8ck them twice. He has zero love for Muslims.😎

That's how you can tell he's a racist.

He openly talks about them because he considers them "soft targets" to openly unleash his racism on.
He doesn't believe talking about them will get him too much blowback.

I've learned from both observation and experience that if a White man is against ONE minority group...he's usually against ALL of them, lol.

If you're talking about Jews and Latinos to ME.....you're probably talking about Black folks to some of the Latinos or Jews you're kicking it with.

"Black guys are cool.
I like Black guys.
But those camel jockey Arabs........can't stand 'em.
So if I call 'em sand niggers.....don't take offence.
I'm talking about them, not you guys."

Like Maher, I am anti-Muslim too. They are grim and humorless, treat women terribly, and the Koran instructs them to kill anybody who doesn't worship Allah. Arabs couldn't care less about Blacks.

I am also not anti-semitic. Jews and Blacks have a long history of being allies, sharing a burden of rejection and enslavement. Liberal Jews were the first to step up and support the civil rights movement. They are not perfect, but no group is. I'd take a liberal jew any day rather than a right wing black Republican lackey. Zionists are another story.

1 hour ago, aka Contrarian said:

Like Maher, I am anti-Muslim too. They are grim and humorless, treat women terribly, and the Koran instructs them to kill anybody who doesn't worship Allah. Arabs couldn't care less about Blacks.

Arabs still haven't killed nearly as many people as white folks have through wars.

Muslim women don't appear to be fleeing the Middle Eadt en masse as a result of their treatment.

The Quran/Koran does not condone killing people for no reason. It does permit killing for self-defense, resisting oppression & legal justice.

I'm not a Muslim nor do I sympathize with them.

Still, I find it interesting how the west demonizes islam through propaganda & its proxies.

1 hour ago, aka Contrarian said:

I am also not anti-semitic. Jews and Blacks have a long history of being allies, sharing a burden of rejection and enslavement.

Chattel slavery was far more brutal & lasted for centuries.

The holocaust was a few years & 6 million unalived.

Jews were paid for their pain & suffering. The state of Israel receives billions or dollars every year into perpetuity.

Black folks are still waiting for reparations.

1 hour ago, aka Contrarian said:

Liberal Jews were the first to step up and support the civil rights movement.

Brotha Malcolm X mentioned that it was not a good idea to allow white folks fo join Black organizations & movements.

Jews were able to walk away from the Civil Rights movement without any lasting effects from the exercise.

1 hour ago, aka Contrarian said:

They are not perfect, but no group is. I'd take a liberal jew any day rather than a right wing black Republican lackey. Zionists are another story.

No group is perfect nor is perfection required to do business.

Strategic alliances should be built on shared interests & for mutual benefit to all parties involved.

Jews have further enriched themselves using Black talent & labor especially the entertainment industry.

I don't see any wealthy Black institutions &/or infrastructure that sprung up as the result of a Black-Jew alliance.😎

Blacks did and do take advantage of philanthropic grants rich Jews like Julius Rosenwald set up.

Jews don't need me to "defend" them but I give credit where credit is due and don't let other people like the venomous Farakhan dictate who I should hate.

Jewish persecution dates back to biblical times, btw.

11 hours ago, aka Contrarian said:

Blacks did and do take advantage of philanthropic grants rich Jews like Julius Rosenwald set up.

Sure. Black folks have taken advantage of Jew charities & employment opportunitites.

11 hours ago, aka Contrarian said:

Jews don't need me to "defend" them but I give credit where credit is due and don't let other people like the venomous Farakhan dictate who I should hate.

Nobody should be able to dictate who one h8tes.

IMO, Minister Farrakhan highlighted how Jews fuel & benefit from the system of racism white supremacy.

11 hours ago, aka Contrarian said:

Jewish persecution dates back to biblical times, btw.

No doubt...white folks have been persecuting each other for thousands of years.

Yet, chattel slavery was uniquely different from serfdom.

Serfs & indentured servants were treated far more humanely than Black slaves.

To enslave people for 400 years & build wealth upon it leading up to a system of racism white supremacy is next level.

Also, Jews were in the USA when chattel slavery was booming. They were not standing with Black folks to end it.

The Jews do not reference the thousands of years of persecution. The holocaust is their primary sympathy card.

To be clear, I have nothing against Jews or anyone else. I h8te the system of racism of white supremacy.😎

@ProfD: What has Farrakhan done for the over-all black population?

He and I are the same age and I've never known him to do anything for anybody but his bean pie brigade. For as long as I can remember, he has lived a life of leisure in a big mansion on Chicago's south side, emerging once a year to regurgitate his marathon Founder's day tirade. Even his Black Man March never developed into anything permanent. He's currently being kept alive by team of Jewish doctors who he praises in private.

People like him and Thomas Sowell, Cornel West, and the late Neely Fuller have never done anything but sit around critizing Blacks, telling them what they need to do.

As I say, Jews, who were among the founders of the NAACP, don't need me to defend them.

Bottom line is, just WHO is it black Americans can point to as having helped them? Even Africans snub them. Obviously they need to just get on with their lives adopting the each one, teach one approach.

White supremacy exists because it perpetuates itself and wards off all challengers. It is, what it is.

Blacks folks are too busy chasing their tails, competing in the "blacker than thou" contests, trying to dictate to each other what constitutes authentic blackness.

At my age, staying under the radar, is easy. Nobody cares what old people think. And, for me, the feeling is mutual!

C'mon, baby, let's do our thing

1 hour ago, aka Contrarian said:

@ProfD: What has Farrakhan done for the over-all black population?

People like him and Thomas Sowell, Cornel West, and the late Neely Fuller have never done anything but sit around critizing Blacks, telling them what they need to do.

You're right.

Religious leaders, intellectuals & philosophers seem to occupy the same lane in pointing out the problems/issues & telling people what they need to do whether it is 1) meeting the sky fairy, 2) getting into heaven &/or 3) coping with the system of racism white supremacy.

Rarely do these people offer a plan of action & milestones (POAM) providing Black folks with a blueprint in overcoming the system of racism white supremacy.

The late Neely Fuller Jr. has come the closest to providing an actionable item in writing The United Independent Compensatory Code/System/Concept book.

1 hour ago, aka Contrarian said:

As I say, Jews, who were among the founders of the NAACP, don't need me to defend them.

IMO, beyond their part in the civil rights movement, the NAACP has not done much to help Black folks.

After the real Black leaders were assassinated in the late 1960s, the NAACP has collected monies & handed out a few scholarships.

Otherwise, I don't see the fruit of the NAACP existence. They remind me of Black fraternities & sororities. Social clubs.😁

1 hour ago, aka Contrarian said:

Bottom line is, just WHO is it black Americans can point to as having helped them?

The Black folks who marched & died for Civil Rights did the most to help to Black folks.

Getting legislation passed for civil & voting rights & Affirmative Action benefitted many Black folks.

Unfortunately, their efforts helped other people of color & white women too.

1 hour ago, aka Contrarian said:

Even Africans snub them. Obviously they need to just get on with their lives adopting the each one, teach one approach.

Right. AfroAmericans should not be looking for friends &/or allies among other groups of people. Build strategic alliances based on shared interests.

1 hour ago, aka Contrarian said:

White supremacy exists because it perpetuates itself and wards off all challengers. It is, what it is.

Correct. But, the system of racism white supremacy can be toppled like every other empire.

1 hour ago, aka Contrarian said:

Blacks folks are too busy chasing their tails, competing in the "blacker than thou" contests, trying to dictate to each other what constitutes authentic blackness.

True. That is one of the petty aspects of our existence & a thorn in our proverbial side. Definitely makes it more challenging to get more meaningful things done.

Black folks definitely need to resolve the petty differences among us if we are ever going to overthrow the system of racism white supremacy.

1 hour ago, aka Contrarian said:

At my age, staying under the radar, is easy. Nobody cares what old people think. And, for me, the feeling is mutual!

As I mentioned before, you have reached that age in life where racism white supremacy is no longer of concern.🤗

The current situation will not alter &/or make a difference in your life whatsoever.

It is really up to the future generations of Black folks to either maintain the status quo or do something to gain more power & control over their existence.

That should not stop my generation from planting seeds to encourage &/or enable future generations to overthrow the system of racism white supremacy.

Otherwise, the white-washing of history & reinforcing the system of racism of white supremacy will further normalize it. At least until a catastrophic event or natural disaster occurs.😎

ProfD

Believe it or not, I share some of Cynique's views when comparing Jews with Arabs on their treatment of Black people.

Not just AfroAmericans but Black people world wide.

I grew up in the Detroit area which has both a large Jewish and large Arab population and most Black people will tell you that when Jews owned and operated stores in the ghetto they treated Black people much better and with much more respect than the Arabs.

Globally, from my limited observations it seems as if Blacks in Israel live better and have more financial opportunities under Jewish governance than they do in most Arab countries.
Again, this is looking at things from an outsiders point of view so I could be wrong.

.

Brotha Malcolm X mentioned that it was not a good idea to allow white folks fo join Black organizations & movements.

Malcolm was a smart and wise man.

Most of the time White folks only join these organizations so that they can INFILTRATE them and either steer them in a particular direction or act as spies to funnel information to their racists comrades who work for the other side.

2 good examples of this is how Colin Kaepernick was influenced by a White man to protest by "taking a knee" instead of walking out and how White people who infiltrated the Black Lives Matter movement changed the atmosphere from rioting and confrontation to walking around with your hands in the air chanting "hands up don't shoot". Making a pretty much neutered, docile, and powerless protest.

He provided an excellent analogy when he said strong Black coffee keeps you alert but when you start adding milk to it.....it puts you to sleep, lol.

Jews have further enriched themselves using Black talent & labor especially the entertainment industry.

Facts.

They've also done this with their gentile brethren.

The Nation of Islam teaches that the Jews are actually the leaders or "brains" of White civilization.

5 hours ago, aka Contrarian said:

C'mon, baby, let's do our thing

Baby might have to go ahead and do it by himself.
It's going to take YOU all night and half the next morning to get out of them tight ass pants....lol