SMH Did Racism Shut Down a Major NBA All Star Event in Indianapolis?
The Indianapolis Super Bowl Event Scandal – What Other Cities like Dallas can Learn A peculiar business discrepancy occurred during
Category: History
Why America Really Hates the Black National Anthem, Pt 2
The original poem over 120 years ago that would later be adopted as the Black National Anthem was really a
So You Really Think Black Americans Got Reparations?
Brothas and sistas, it is quite baffling that there are a lot of people who still believe we got reparations
Do We Know Our Real Identity?
This Fall, a series of videos will explore who we really are. Not from a spiritual standpoint, but from an
Could Madame CJ Walker Have Become a Billionaire?
After becoming successful, she adopted social activism into her business model. That’s fine, but I think she should have sold her supply chain operation as a service so that she could then sell her hair and beauty business to someone else. She could then charge them for supply chain management. Next, she could’ve serviced black clothing manufacturers, food companies/farmers, oil companies, insurance products, funeral home supplies, and other types of black owned businesses.
Shouldn’t Juneteenth Be About More Than Slavery?
The most damaging outcome of the segregation laws was that the fake good cops in government started pushing for desegregation laws. Some of our ancestors knew this was a trap so they resisted desegregation as we were doing fine as a nation state within a racist nation. Why get too close to the enemy? But the naïve ones among our people gave in to the socialist strategy and fought for desegregation.
The result? Instead of being an independent thinking state within a state, forging our own political and economic destiny, we all loaded up the moving truck and went from the Republican party to the Democratic party. How has that turned out? We don’t even keep score. Our median incomes and net worth, which was already struggling in the 1930s through 1960s, stayed flat, not far from zero, till this day. That’s a dam shame.
The Case for Reparations Due to Land Theft
While many of us wait for slavery reparations, the far more significant amount of wealth our community lost was due
Revisiting 1968’s Classic Ossie Davis Documentary ‘Inside the Negr0 Middle Class’
In another scene, another very interesting discussion about black women’s hair came up. Surprisingly, or probably not, there was a disagreement about embracing black women going natural. Pro-black sistas were all about that natural hairstyle, but sistas who owned black hair care related businesses, especially the ones that offered blond hairstyles and wigs at the time, vehemently opposed it because it would cost them revenue. I know, very interesting, right?
Black Wall Street Spotlight: John Merrick
In this Black Wall Street history spotlight is well respected businessman John Merrick of North Carolina. He rose out of
Let’s Call it Black Wall Street History Month Instead
Did they tell us the real truth about who really took down all our Black Wall Street communities? Do you
Affluent Blacks of Dallas 