Looking Black

SOURCE (CNN) It was ‘”mo’ money, mo’ problems” for Memphis-based rapper Blac Youngsta on Friday. A case of mistaken identity led to the rapper being briefly detained outside an Atlanta bank after withdrawing $200,000. On Friday, Atlanta police received a call that a man was cashing a forged check at a Wells Fargo bank. Coincidentally, rapper […]

Looking Black, National, Proud

Thurgood Marshall, was a civil rights hero who became the first African-American Supreme Court Judge In The United States . source 

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What better way to discuss the N-word on MLK day. It was a huge stir up when Nas tried to title his CD the N-word.  In recent gossip, Quentin Jerome Tarantino, an American film director, screenwriter, producer, and actor.  Has been accused of using the N-word a little too much! Other actors such as “Kramer” played […]

What’s going on Wiznation family? Ya boy Skillz back again with another Dj spotlight! Black Music Month is still moving on so here is todays lesson. Who is Grandmaster Flash? Your lesson begins now! There are lots of stories about the birth of jazz and the beginning of rock n’ roll, but hip-hop has founding fathers: […]

VIA:  SmokeyRobinson.Com The dictionary defines the popular term “comfort food” as “food prepared in a traditional style having a usually nostalgic or sentimental appeal.” It has been known to have a buffering effect as it soothes the soul and spurs memories of more “comforting” times. If that concept holds up in the kitchen, then it […]

VIA:  AltheaGibson.Com Born August 25, 1927 in Silver, SC, A right-hander, grew up in Harlem. Her family was poor, but she was fortunate in coming to the attention of Dr. Walter Johnson, a Lynchburg VA physician who was active in the black tennis community. He became her patron as he would later for Arthur Ashe, […]

Washington, D.C., native Taraji P. Henson didn’t always know that her smoldering charisma and beautiful face would make her a professional actress. On the contrary, she originally studied electrical engineering when she enrolled at North Carolina Agric & Tech. She later transferred to Howard University, where she attended classes while working as a secretary at […]

VIA:  YAHOO MOVIES.COM: Denzel Washington burst onto the big screen with an Oscar and Golden Globe-winning role in the Civil War epic “Glory” (1989). But over the following decade, the matinee-idol handsome actor became the first of his generation’s African-American movie stars to land squarely on Hollywood’s A-list – as likely to be tapped to […]

VIA: SpeakOutNow.Org Through her activism and her scholarship over the last decades, Angela Davis has been deeply involved in our nation’s quest for social justice. Her work as an educator – both at the university level and in the larger public sphere – has always emphasized the importance of building communities of struggle for economic, […]

VIA:  JudgeMathisTV.Com The real-life story of Judge Mathis is heartwarming and inspirational.  Greg Mathis was a gang member who dropped out of school, was in and out of jail and then overcame these adversities to become the youngest judge in the history of the state of Michigan. The inspiration for his own TV court show, […]