Fort Negley in Nashville, Tennessee, has been named as a “Site of Memory” by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The “Site of Memory”
Burrell Communications is a transcultural communication and marketing agency known for its leadership, forward-thinking approach and more than 40 years of experience connecting with consumers across
Nearly 8 out of 10 American workers say they live paycheck to paycheck to make ends meet, according to a CBS News report. Additional concerns include job
In a video that has now gone wildly viral and been viewed over 4M times on YouTube, two young African American men — Rashon Nelson and
I have had the honor of interacting with a number of people who have received their ancestry results. One of the most memorable reveals was with a graduate student at the University of Maryland. Even before taking an African Ancestry MatriClan Test, he was convinced that his maternal ancestry was Sierra Leonean.
This summer marks the 100th anniversary of the National Parks Service, and it just so happens this writer has a goal over the next few years
On the anniversary of her birthday, Dr. Donda West continues to affect the world in a positive way through the organization that was named for
If you put a frog in a pot of boiling water he’ll jump out; however, if you put him in a pot of cold water and slowly increase the temperature, he adjusts to the increasing heat until his system can no longer compensate. Then, stressed and overwhelmed with what he has endured, he dies. The frog will stay in the increasingly unhealthy, dangerous situation because it happened gradually over time and he ignored his natural ability to sense the danger and get out of the situation. Are African Americans behaving like this frog?
Rapper Lil Boosie’s recent comments have brought a significant amount of criticism for the Louisiana hip-hop star. During an appearance on “NiteCap” with Peter Bailey, Boosie spoke about crime, the glorification of prison and racism
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Dealing with a heartbreaking illness A mother’s story of a bipolar son This Fragile Life Award-winning professor Charlotte Pierce-Baker is the mother and author of
Since the end of the Bush administration, we have seen poverty rates in America continue to rise. Last year, almost 1 in 6 people were
A new report by Congressional Research Services notes that since the early 1980s, there has been a historically unprecedented increase in the federal prison population.
In nine days, the U.S. government enact automatic spending cuts due to what is called sequestration. Specifically speaking, the sequester refers to the drastic and
Americans watch a lot of television, with minority youth consuming way more “media” than white youth. To be more exact, black youth watch an average
“After freedom you know colored people didn’t have nothing.”— 101 year-old former slave Fountain Hughes
Although the imaginary fiscal cliff was avoided, there are some big issues left for President Obama to deal with pertaining to the economy. The most
President Barack Obama will make his 2013 State of the Union address to America tonight. We know he will touch on immigration reform, gun violence
Diabetes is a major killer of blacks. Many Africans Americans including Halle Berry, former Miss America and “Desperate Housewives” star Vanessa Williams, Damon Dash and
It is undoubtly reasonable to suggest that the Emancipation Proclamation is one of the most important documents in the history of the United States. The
