“Great Recession” wiped out half of Black Americas wealth

Sure things are tough. And the sad reality is they’re going to get a lot tougher. Particularly if you happen to be a Black person living in America. The thing about economic numbers is they lag years behind the actual reality. So while many of you have been suffering for the past several years, i.e. lost your home, car repo’d, laid off from your job and basically tumbled out of the middle class, the economic data has not been available to validate your dilemma.

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Historic Black 50th and 100th anniversaries: Civil rights, Malcolm and Garvey

July 2014 marked the 50th anniversary of the signing of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. This event was perhaps the most significant achievement and benchmark of the civil rights movement that had been so ably led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and others from 1955-1966. July 2014 also marked the 50th anniversary of Malcolm X’s attendance at the 2nd annual summit of the Organization of African Unity (OAU). It was at this summit in Cairo, Egypt, the Malcolm submitted his famous memorandum to the African heads-of-states that declared ‘African problem are our problems and our problems are African problems’.

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The Queen Of Calypso Returns To Toronto For The Small World Music Festival!

McArtha Lewis, aka Calypso Rose, was born in the small island of Tobago in the West Indies. She started singing at the age of 15, and over 50 years later she is the reigning Queen of Calypso. In a world where men dominate, she was able to stand out through her strong personality and her stage charisma. Calypso Rose has received more honors and medals that any other living Calypsonian. In 1966, she wrote “Fire in Meh Wire”, which has become one of the international anthems of Calypso, translated into eight languages. In 1977, she was the first woman to win the crown of Calypso Monarch (originally called Calypso King re-named Calypso Monarch after her win). From there, there was no stopping this energetic and powerful woman, who has taken Calypso all over the world and has shared the stage with some of the biggest international stars, Miriam Makeba, Tito Puente, Mahalia Jackson, Michael Jackson, Roberta Flack, Bob Marley among others.


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For Black Men in America, There Is No Break From Racism

The events of this summer in Ferguson, Mo., highlighted an ugly truth to mainstream Americans: Black men in this country are viewed as so suspicious by law enforcement that they are often shot first and questioned later. It is a reality that black men have been living with in the United States since the very beginning.

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White Privilege, Racism & the Fallacy of Post-Racial...

It’s absolutely, without a doubt, absurd to claim that we live in a post-racial/colorblind society. Many people know how bogus it is. But there are still people who delude themselves. Maybe they’re trying to convince us. Perhaps it’s both. Right now, it’s whatever. The United States is a white racist society that still has a problem with people of color, especially us Negroes. And a lot of white people are sick with it. Period.

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One Nation Under SWAT: The Militarization of America's Police

Think of it as a different kind of blowback. Even when you fight wars in countries thousands of miles distant, they still have an eerie way of making the long trip home.
Take the latest news from Bergen County, New Jersey, one of the richest counties in the country. Its sheriff’s department is getting two mine-resistant ambush-protected vehicles, or MRAPs -- 15 tons of protective equipment -- for a song from the Pentagon.

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When England abolished slavery, slaveholders received the equivalent of $200B in reparations

(Special from The NorthStar News & Analysis) – August 1 passed quietly, but it shouldn’t have because it is an important day in the history of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade and a strong reminder as to why large numbers of Blacks never got a leg up on the economic ladder.

On August 1, 1834, England, the world’s biggest slave trader, ended 250 years of a “national crime” against Africans, but slaveholders and slave traders were paid millions of British pounds in reparations for the loss of their property, as enslaved Africans were considered.

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