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Stephon Clark Was Shot 8 Times, Primarily in the Back

Stephon Clark Was Shot 8 Times, Primarily in the Back Play Mute Current Time1:52 / Duration Time3:52 Loaded: 0% Progress: 0% Share Captions Fullscreen × By ASSOCIATED PRESS Updated: March 22, 2018 10:59 AM ET | Originally published: March 21, 2018 | Courtesy of Time Magazine (SACRAMENTO, Calif.) — Two officers …

Ohio Teens That Killed Black Man Will Receive No Jail Time

Ohio Teens That Killed Black Man Will Receive No Jail Time By Shamone Nelson  – April 8, 2018 | Courtesy of Atlanta Black Star 0 The four teens who threw a sandbag off an overpass that killed an Ohio man will not face jail time. They will instead be sent to …

How Home Ownership Keeps Blacks Poorer Than Whites

DEC 10, 2012 @ 12:28 PM | Courtesy of Forbes | Updated April 7, 2018How Home Ownership Keeps Blacks Poorer Than Whites   Forbes Leadership Forum,  CONTRIBUTORNews, Commentary, and Advice About Leadership Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. This article is by Dorothy Brown, a professor of tax law at Emory University Law School. …

Moms of Family Who Drove Off Cliff Have Dark History of Abuse!

Moms of family who drove off cliff have dark history of abuse By Ruth Brown | Courtesy of the NY Post March 29, 2018 | 1:56pm | Updated Modal Trigger Jennifer and Sarah HartFacebook The moms who fatally veered off a California cliff with at least three of their six adopted kids were being investigated for starving their …

Tennessee Has Fined Residents Nearly $100,000, Just For Braiding Hair

MAR 13, 2018 @ 09:30 AM 137,279 | Courtesy of Forbes Tennessee Has Fined Residents Nearly $100,000, Just For Braiding Hair   When people ask me why is it so difficult for Blacks to close the wealth gap between the Black collective and Whites, I point first to the obvious. It …

1.5 Million Missing Black Men

1.5 Million Missing Black Men By JUSTIN WOLFERS, DAVID LEONHARDT and KEVIN QUEALY APRIL 20, 2015 | Courtesy of NY Times For every 100 black women not in jail, there are only 83 black men. The remaining men – 1.5 million of them – are, in a sense, missing. 17 missing black men for every 100 black …

Preparing Young Black Warriors to Compete & Win In a Racist World!

Preparing Young Black Warriors to Compete & Win In a Racist World! “The fact that African Americans have experienced great success in recent years does not mean that something akin to a racial caste system no longer exists. No caste system in the United States has ever governed all black …

Revisiting the Discussion of Mo’Nique vs Netflix

Revisiting the Discussion of Mo’Nique vs Netflix [Adult Content Disclaimer] Mo’Nique vs Netflix   If Black people would scrutinize half the shit White people shove down our throats every day the way we are scrutinizing and going in on Mo’Nique, we would be in a much better position.   This …

Derrick Jaxn the Self-Love Ambassador is Under Fire ~ What I See

Derrick Jaxn the Self-Love Ambassador is Under Fire We live in a culture in which people gravitate toward those who tell them what they want to hear rather than tell them what they so desperately need to hear. We don’t want anyone who holds us accountable for our own actions …

Wealth gap widens as ‘world’s richest 1% get 82% of the wealth,’ Oxfam says

Wealth gap widens as ‘world’s richest 1% get 82% of the wealth,’ Oxfam says Wealth Gap Widens -Approximately 82 percent of the money generated last year went to the richest 1 percent of the global population, the report said, while the poorest half saw no increase at all Last year, …