The widower of slain rapper Magnolia Shorty has been shot dead just weeks before the first anniversary of his wife's murder.
The hip-hop star - real name Renetta Lowe - was gunned down in her native New Orleans, Louisiana on December 2010.
Now ...
Posted Friday, November 18th 2011 at 1:27PM
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FLORIDA--The flames of hate rarely relight a dimming flicker of love, but L.B. Williams of Panama City decided to stage a fake KKK-style cross burning in his front yard as a last-ditch effort to get his wife to call off their planned divorce. Instead ...
Posted Friday, November 18th 2011 at 1:05PM
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Peace Family,
The reality is that the Black community is in aweful shape. In the schools, in the churches, in the prisons....everywhere: we are suffering.
Black boys are placed in special education classes at a higher rate than any of their c ...
Posted Friday, November 18th 2011 at 12:27PM
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Peace To All:
Almost all emotional problems indicate a lack of self-love. (Only a few very rare problems which are caused entirely by physical disease can be excluded.)
DO YOU LOVE YOURSELF?
I'm going to be giving you a lot of examples of h ...
Posted Friday, November 18th 2011 at 11:33AM
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Peace To All,
Nearly every other ethnic group has taken turns exploiting the Black community. Some of us are old enough to have seen the stores in our communities go from Jewish-owned, to Asian-owned to Arab-owned. They all come to the U.S. and g ...
Posted Sunday, November 6th 2011 at 4:49PM
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Peace,
Slavery, as an institution still exist in the world today. It exists on the physical level, example: involuntary servitude, sexual slavery and other forms.
Debt is also a form of slavery. There is a saying. "The debtor is a slave to the ...
Posted Wednesday, October 26th 2011 at 12:41PM
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NEW ORLEANS -- There are several political signs attracting all kinds of attention in one Uptown New Orleans neighborhood.
A group of about 60 people protested outside a New Orleans home where a man mounted a sign depicting President Barack Obama ...
Posted Friday, September 30th 2011 at 11:56AM
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10. Flirting is all about attitude. A good flirt is self-confident and not afraid to take risks. Be enthusiastic, open and positive. It works!
9. Start a conversation. The best opening line is saying hello. Talk about the surroundings, ask a quest ...
Posted Thursday, September 8th 2011 at 1:29PM
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Peace,
I'm often being asked for recipes on this site, so I decided to start a blog including a few dishes that you may find unique adding on as I see fit...and I have included some that are child friendly and that you can make with your own child ...
Posted Monday, September 5th 2011 at 4:56PM
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Mary J. Blige has opened up about her new album, her movie roles, and her favorite artists in anticipation of her upcoming new album.
Blige revealed that her new album will be entitled My Life II: The Journey Continues, telling MTV of the album's ...
Posted Monday, September 5th 2011 at 4:13PM
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Kinfolks Cards are produced and distributed by Texas-based company, Amazon Creations. Owner, Georgia Williams, is also the author and artist of all Kinfolks Cards collections. The company began on line in the fall of 2009, but made its wholesale debu ...
Posted Monday, September 5th 2011 at 3:58PM
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BET.com--An activist has filed a complaint with the US Attorney General’s Office regarding the treatment that rapper T.I. has been receiving.
Najee Ali, Executive Director of Project Islamic H.O.P.E. believes that the rapper is being harassed by t ...
Posted Monday, September 5th 2011 at 3:52PM
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Peace,
I often notice the outrageous comments on Black female celebrities dating men of other races, well what about black male celebrities dating women of other races? I realized that many successful black male celebrities don't mess with black w ...
Posted Sunday, September 4th 2011 at 5:15PM
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We’ve all been there. You’re walking down the street with your man and a beautiful girl passes you both. What does your man do? Does he keep his eyes fixated on you or does he break his neck to watch this other chick walk by?
If your man has the c ...
Posted Monday, May 30th 2011 at 3:26PM
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BET.com--Whether it’s the new car, new handbag, new shoes or new something, there’s no doubt that Black folk will stay sharp, but at what cost is it to keep up with the Jones?
It may not cost anything the moment the purchase is made, but billions ...
Posted Monday, May 30th 2011 at 2:54PM
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TheRoot.com--Three years before the commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic called on Union veterans’ organizations to decorate the graves of dead soldiers, blacks in Charleston, South Carolina in 1865 launched the first Decoration Day i ...
Posted Saturday, May 28th 2011 at 7:24PM
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(FinalCall.com) - The foundation of American White supremacy sits tenuously on a rickety base of lies and deceptions about how Whites gained their wealth and status. A century and a half after slavery the median wealth of White families is $100,000; ...
Posted Saturday, May 28th 2011 at 4:58PM
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The following text is excerpted from an interview with the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, originally appearing as Part 2 of a five-part Final Call Newspaper series on health in 1991.
THE HONORABLE MINISTER LOUIS FARRAKHAN:
Allah (God), in ...
Posted Saturday, May 28th 2011 at 4:46PM
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BET.com--Earlier this month, the popular magazine Psychology Today published an article by evolutionary psychologist Satoshi Kanazawa titled “Why Are Black Women Less Physically Attractive Than Other Women?" that was met, expectedly, with mass outrag ...
Posted Saturday, May 28th 2011 at 4:39PM
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CHICAGO--GIL Scott-Heron, a poet and songwriter dubbed the Godfather of Rap, has died aged 62.
Scott-Heron, whose ground-breaking spoken-word performances set to music included The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, passed away at a New York hospi ...
Posted Saturday, May 28th 2011 at 4:19PM
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(CNN) -- A top Nation of Islam official arrested in Guyana on suspicion of terrorism was released by police Friday afternoon and is demanding a formal apology, he and his lawyer there told CNN.
Painting himself as the victim of a "smear campaign," ...
Posted Thursday, May 26th 2011 at 12:07PM
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