AME ON FIRE: don’ let us drown As we enter into the second half of the year it is a good time to do a quick evaluation. Most people have started to return to a level of normal and Covid restrictions have been lifted or reduced in many areas. That being said, I want to Read More…
Month: October 2021
AME CHURCH RECORDER
AME CHURCH RECORDER. On the Edge of Ignorance and Knowing: Black Preaching and the Black Church Are We In Trouble? Recently, a video of Pastor Marvin Winans of Perfecting Church, Detroit MI., while preaching in Independence Kentucky, to a predominantly white congregation made willfully ignorant, damaging, and completely false statements about the legitimacy of the Read More…
Committee Week
Committee week, in Florida Capital – Festival of Ignorance. It’s all about sparing white people’s feelings, y’all. Legislators came to town for the autumn ritual of political harlotry they call “committee week.” Tallahassee’s collective IQ dropped by a good 60 points. That’s bad, but what they propose doing to Florida is worse. Seems Sen. Joe Read More…
HBCU
HBCU Student Mikayla Harris Earns $15K Astronaut Scholarship, Mikayla Harris, an African American student from Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland, is one of the winners of the prestigious Astronaut Scholarship Foundation award. She received $15,000 in scholarship awards, among others. Harris, who is a senior from the School of Computer, Mathematical and Natural Sciences, Read More…
Black Descendant of 4th U.S. President James Madison
Black Descendant of 4th U.S. President James Madison Publishes Book About His Black Family. Santa Fe, NM — Dr. Bettye Kearse, retired pediatrician and black descendant of President James Madison, is the author of the award-winning book The Other Madisons: The Lost History of A President’s Black Family (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020). In recounting the struggles, perseverance, and Read More…
Non-Profit Prison Reform Organization
Non-Profit Prison Reform Organization to Review 1,000 Wrongful Conviction Cases, The Prison Reform Project, a California-based non-profit organization, has set the goal of reviewing at least 1,000 wrongful conviction cases from across the country. The organization is led by its director, Clyde Beasley, who himself was once wrongfully incarcerated and was able to skillfully exonerate himself Read More…
Morgan E. Taylor 1st Black Miss Pre Teen
Morgan E. Taylor, Children’s Book Co-Author, is Crowned 1st Black Miss Pre Teen International. Morgan E. Taylor popped on the scene when she was 5-years old as the co-author of Daddy’s Little Princess, a nonfiction children’s book that introduces real princesses of color from around the world. Now, the preteen who envisioned being a princess Read More…
Lawrence Brooks 112 Year old VET
Lawrence Brooks 112 Year’s old is the oldest WWII Veteran alive. The National WWII Museum organized a drive-by celebration last Sunday to honor Brooks with a Jeep parade and live performances from the Museum’s vocal trio, The Victory Belles, as well as other local musicians. It has been a yearly tradition but it was brought Read More…
This is What it Means to be Dyscalculic
This is What it Means to be Dyscalculic: The learning disability hardly anyone knows about KINDERGARTEN I don’t care because I don’t understand it so it’s easier not to care. I am in kindergarten. I love books. I love to read. I love books so much my mother has to purchase a set of of Read More…
Batuku, the famous Cape Verde dance banned by colonizers for being ‘too African’
UNBELIEVABLE: Batuku, the famous Cape Verde dance BANNED Cape Verde is one of the most visited countries in Africa thanks to its wonderful beaches and breathtaking 5-star hotels and resorts that keep tourists coming back for more. The country is also well known for its songs, proverbs, popular beliefs, superstitions, among other oral traditions. A popular Read More…