Archive for November, 2014

Book Review: “Sweet Poison: How the World’s Most Popular Artificial Sweetener Is Killing Us” By: Janet Starr Hull

“Sweet Poison: How The World’s Most Popular Artificial Sweetener Is Killing Us- My Story,” By: Janet Starr Hull is a tome that was published in 1999 but is still shockingly relevant today. In this book, the author engagingly recounts how she discovered the deadly dangers of ingesting foods that are plied with toxic artificial ingredients. […]

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TODAY IS BUY BLACK FRIDAY

PLEASE PASS THIS ON! (EACH ONE TEACH ONE OR TWO!) THIS IS PHASE ONE ON HOW WE CAN HELP TO STRENGTHEN & EMPOWER OUR COMMUNITY: The 2008 not guilty verdict in the Sean Bell case evoked outrage, emotion, and debate. It is not an anomaly that the police officers involved in the Sean Bell slaying […]

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Quote Of The Day

“Black revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions; shaped by our oppress=ion. We are manufactured in droves in the ghetto streets.” -Assata Shakur Tweet

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Video Of The Week: Culture, Thanksgiving & Holidays

The lecturers discuss: The definition of culture, the definition of holiday, the 10-song radio rotation list, the co-opting of culture, and social engineering. At the 30-minute mark, Native American, Guy Jones, discusses: Thanksgiving, nations vs. tribes, love and hate, relationships, the capitalist system, and prayer. [SIDEBAR: Black Love Day & Maafa Recognition Day- Genius!] Tweet

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Book Excerpt Of The Week: “The Power Broker: Robert Moses and The Fall of New York” By: Robert A. Caro

“Robert Moses was America’s greatest builder. He was the shaper of the greatest city in the New World. But what did he build? What was the shape into which he pounded the city? To build the highways, Moses threw out of their homes 250,000 persons- more people than lived in Albany or Chattanooga, or in […]

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TODAY IS BUY BLACK FRIDAY

PLEASE PASS THIS ON! (EACH ONE TEACH ONE OR TWO!) THIS IS PHASE ONE ON HOW WE CAN HELP TO STRENGTHEN & EMPOWER OUR COMMUNITY: The 2008 not guilty verdict in the Sean Bell case evoked outrage, emotion, and debate. It is not an anomaly that the police officers involved in the Sean Bell slaying […]

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Quote Of The Day

“Once you stand for something, that means you have opposition. You have to be well prepared.” -Lauryn Hill Tweet

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How Films Make Puppets Out Of Film Watchers

“You will now start to notice how, over the sense, what the really great artists- the people who make us laugh and cry and wonder; the people who fill our world with color and dark stories that can fill us with fear and provoke us to action; the people who fill the world with music […]

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Black History Fact Of The Day

Dr. Velma Scantlebury is the America’s first African-American female transplant surgeon. “Dr. Scantlebury has stated that she refuses to retire until there are ten more black women in transplant surgery in the United States. Currently there is only one other black woman transplant surgeon.” [SOURCE: Black America Web] Tweet

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Quote Of The Day

“The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.” -Muhammad Tweet

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