OP-ED: For Reparations, Black America Needs Power, Not New Names

OP-ED: For Reparations, Black America Needs Power, Not New Names

Attendees representing various groups at the 2019 Congressional hearing on reparations. Source: NurPhoto / Getty Since Ta-Nehisi Coates’ “The Case For Reparations” was published by The Atlantic, conversations about reparations have grown substantially. For many, reparations went from a passing…

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Lyda Newman designed a brush for you and your Black hair

Lyda Newman designed a brush for you and your Black hair

Listen to this article here Inventor and women’s rights advocate Lyda Newman is best known for a newly-designed hairbrush patent. Newman did not invent the hairbrush, but she did revolutionize its design to resemble the brushes in use more today. According…

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Jayland Walker’s Family Wants The DOJ To Takeover Investigation Into His Killing

Jayland Walker’s Family Wants The DOJ To Takeover Investigation Into His Killing

The family of Jayland Walker requests the DOJ take over the investigation into his killing from the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation. Source: Angelo Merendino / Getty The family of Jayland Walker want the Department of Justice to take over…

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NYC Judge Overturns Convictions For Three Men Found Guilty on ‘Questionable’ Police Tactics In Getting Confessions For Putting Subway Token Clerk on Fire 

NYC Judge Overturns Convictions For Three Men Found Guilty on ‘Questionable’ Police Tactics In Getting Confessions For Putting Subway Token Clerk on Fire 

NEW YORK (AP) — After decades in prison, three men were cleared Friday in one of the most horrifying crimes of New York’s violent 1990s — the killing of a clerk who was set on fire in a subway toll…

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Entrepreneur From Michigan Opens Africa’s Newest Black-Owned Safari in Tanzania

Entrepreneur From Michigan Opens Africa’s Newest Black-Owned Safari in Tanzania

Nationwide — Paul Allen Billings, an African American entrepreneur from Muskegon, Michigan, is the owner of his very own safari in the East African country of Tanzania called VisitTanzania4Less.com. Africa is known for having the most wildlife in the world….

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