“Malcolm X’s, Marcus Garvey’s, and Martin Delany’s position was that Blacks must financially and economically invest and work for themselves. The results would be profoundly, profoundly, profoundly different. Just today, instead of abandoning Blacks, African Americans are fully capable of investing one billion dollars a week into themselves. That’s 52 BILLION dollars a year. Without […]
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Black Ballerinas
“In 2007, the year that I would be promoted to soloist, an article appeared in the Sunday edition of the New York Times. The headline was ‘Where Are All the Black Swans?’ It spoke of black ballerinas’ thin ranks in American companies. Of how Tai Jimenez became the first member of Dance Theater of Harlem […]
Read the rest of this entry »Book Excerpt Of The Week: Part 2- “What’s Going On” By: Nathan McCall
“One effect of stereotypes is that, among Blacks, they result in a kind of internalized self-hatred. Many Blacks hate themselves as much as racist Whites hate them. Black-on-Black violence is proof of that. The more obvious impact, though, is that those stereotypes, spoken as fact, lead to hostile racial attitudes towards Blacks in general. Politicians, […]
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“African Americans see their access to the American dream perpetually blocked by a brutal contradiction that at times drives them truly mad. The contradiction is this: Whites pretend to embrace the notion of equal opportunity as part of the dream, but at the same time, Whites cannot- they will not tolerate an America where that’s […]
Read the rest of this entry »Book Excerpt Of The Week: “Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome” By: Dr. Joy Leary
“One of the beliefs that Black people have been taught about themselves is that as a group they could and should not trust one another. Sowing the seeds of distrust was an important tool employed by slave owners as a way of preventing slave uprisings. In some cases this worked so well that some slaves […]
Read the rest of this entry »Book Excerpt Of The Week: “Clemente: The True Legacy of an Undying Hero” By: The Clemente Family
What happened in Montreal was immensely complicated and has been the subject of fervent historical debate by some baseball historians. In the end, there is little doubt that Clemente was hidden in the Dodgers’ minor-league system so another club could not draft him in the off-season. The key was Clemente’s salary and bonus, which totaled […]
Read the rest of this entry »Book Excerpt Of The Week: “The Family: The Real Story Of The Bush Dynasty” By: Kitty Kelley
“Early in his administration, President George W. Bush moved to make sure that the family’s personal, financial, and political secrets, particularly his and his father’s remained sealed forever. After placing his records as Governor of Texas in his father’s presidential library, Bush signed an executive order on November 1, 2001, that blocks the release of […]
Read the rest of this entry »Book Excerpt Of The Week: “Slavery: The African American Psychic Trauma,” By: Sultan Latif & Naimah Latif
“Prior to the Transatlantic slave trade, Africans were held in high esteem internationally. Then, in answer to the critics who labeled the slave trade as barbaric, European scholars began to develop “scientific” theories of black inferiority. Books were written to support these theories, which were taught in European and American universities… The history of African […]
Read the rest of this entry »BOOK EXCERPT OF THE WEEK: Part 2- From, “Acts Of Faith” By: Iyanla Vanzant
“Cheap thoughts bring cheap returns. When you place yourself in low vibration, you draw things that vibrate on the low level. Do you begrudgingly spend money? Do you hate to pay your bills? If so, you are violating the law of correspondence. What you withhold from the universe will be withheld from you. If you […]
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“The universe is extremely responsive to our strongest thoughts and emotions. The forces of life are eager to bring us the very things we give force to. When we are unhappy, dissatisfied or unfulfilled, we give a great deal of energy to the condition we are in. We must realize that complaining about where we […]
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