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  T.I. IS NOT ONE TO HOLD HIS TONGUE  & THIS TIME HE’S SPEAKING OUT ON THE RECENT SCHOOL SHOOTINGS  A total of 100 mass shootings have occurred in the United States of America this year alone as of May 17th. The statistics are staggering in regards to the amount of gun violence that takes […]

ART PURCHASED BY DIDDY   Diddy just made HISTORY  by purchasing what is believed to be the most expensive art piece created by a living African-American artist!! Diddy bought a piece called ‘Past Times’ by #KerryJamesMarshall which shows black people enjoying a day at the park in Chicago.  Back in 1998, Marshall explained the inspiration […]

We’re living in a time where music seems to come and go. Where are all the timeless classics? Some of the best examples of this come from the year 1996. Hip-hop and R&B was at its prime and the replay value on albums seemed endless. Unfortunately, it was also the year the world lost Tupac. Hip-hop […]

        TODAY HAS BEEN VERY INSIGHTFUL! THE CONCLUSION OF THE WHOLE Kyrie Iriving NOT HAPPY WITH THE CLEVELAND CAVALIERS… THE WHOLE KYRIE IRVING RUMOR RIFT BEGUN  feb. 29th (LEAP DAY) WITH STEPHEN A. SMITH STATING THE STAR POINT GUARD WAS NOT HAPPY IN CLEVELAND AND WANTED OUT! “Dating back to last year, I’ve been told […]

Two-thirds of Black male students who start at public colleges and universities do not graduate within six years, which is the lowest college completion rate among both sexes and all racial groups in U.S. higher education. Researchers in the past decade have called attention to these high attrition rates and other troubling trends concerning this […]

For all those going off to college or returning, even students in high school, this video is a HUGE wake up call! It shows the danger of exposing too much information on those social network sites!

<div>Legendary baseball player Jackie Robinson was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1962.</div>

ABC-TV begins televising the Roots mini-series in 1977 (which would go on to be the most watched mini-series in history), based on Alex Haley’s book.

<div>Singer Sam Cooke, the son of a minister and believed by many to be the first father of soul music, was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1931.</div>

On January 20, 2001, Colin Luther Powell is sworn in by President George W. Bush as Secretary of State. He is the first black secretary of state in U.S. history.

On January 19, 1918 John H Johnson, publisher of “Ebony Magazine” and “Jet” was born. In 1982 he became the first African-American to appear on the Forbes 400.

On January 18, 1975, “The Jeffersons” premiered on television. It aired for 11 seasons, making it the longest-running series with a predominantly black cast.