2014

Unforgivable Blackness Jack Johnson Heavyweight Champ of the World: Boxing and Politics Part 1

Once upon a time the fine art of pugilism better known as boxing was the most popular sport in America. It was one of the oldest sport and was seen as the ultimate test of sportsmanship and manhood. What other [...]

Doing Business by the Good Book: Americas Largest Black Owned Business

If a poll were taken among the American people, blacks in particular to name the largest (in terms of revenue) black owned business in the United States you would get answers such as: Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo [...]

IT Project Management: Elements of Scrum Faster, Better, Cheaper

Project Management is a discipline used in all businesses to accomplish work that has a beginning and an end. There are work task that are done on a routine basis that fall under the category of operations. [...]

Scholar as Warrior: Cheikh Anta Diop and the African Origins of Civilization

While it is fashionable to see great public leaders such as W.E.B. Dubois, Marcus Garvey, Dr. King, Malcolm X, Thurgood Marshall, Adam Clayton Powell and others as having been on the front lines engaged in war [...]

The Price of the Ticket: Black Politics 2014

There is the old saying in politics that “there are no permanent friends and no permanent enemies; only permanent interest.” Black Americans have often learned this lesson the hard way, and in many ways [...]

What Killed Dr. Martin Luther King?

“Like any man I would like to live a long life; longevity has its place. But I’m really not concerned about that now because I just want to do Gods will. And He’s allowed me to go up to the mountain. And [...]

Deadlift – The King of all Lifts

One of the single best exercises a man can do to improve his overall health is one of the oldest and simplest exercises – introducing the deadlift. Regardless of what your training objective is; [...]

Black Labor White Wealth *****

Every now and then a book is written that has within its’ pages the chance to change the course of human events. When such books are written and their impact begins to be felt – these books are referred to [...]

Race and Class in 2014

I am often reminded by the saying that injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. Nowhere is this saying more true and applicable than in the United States of America. Throughout human history when [...]

Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael) – Revisited

Kwame Ture AKA Stokely Carmichael may have been the premier political thinker of his generation; however his cogent analysis of racism and what oppressed, aggrieved and disenfranchised people must do have [...]

Ray Rice – Domestic Abuse or Media Lynching of the Black Male Image

The domestic abuse case of Ray Rice the former Baltimore Ravens running back and Rutgers star is dominating the headlines of the major “corporate owned” media outlets. The question to be asked is to what [...]

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