Black Intel

UC Berkeley became the scene of yet another protest Monday when a group of students and supporters staged a “Blackout 2010” blockade of Sather Gate. The group—comprised mainly of black students on campus—wore black clothing, with black scarves around their mouth, to silently protest racist acts at UC San Diego, including an off-campus event mocking Black History Month. The situation escalated when a noose was found hanging in UCSD’s Geisel Library two weeks lat

SAN DIEGO – University of California San Diego police were investigating a KKK-style hood that was placed on a statue outside the main campus library.

The incident was the third targeting black students at UC San Diego in as many weeks. The other incidents were a “Compton Cookout” party that mocked Black History month and a noose in a library.

After rallying across the South last week, black farmers plan to be in Washington, D.C., on Monday to call on the government to “pay up” on its more than 10-year-old promise to compensate for discrimination. Despite the conditions of the 1999 civil rights settlement, more than 70,000 black farmers have yet to see a penny.

Reid is making a point that describes how if Obama’s skin tone was darker and his speech resembled a more Negro dialect that he wouldn’t be accepted as president because his perception as a darker skinned Black with a Negro dialect would vastly differ from that of what mainstream America is capable of tolerating. I think Reid is onto something RACE which is still a taboo topic for most Americans regardless of the tone of their skin red, white, yellow, brown and BLACK.

Another story about Black Women not finding Black Men

So about 5 years ago, I decided to stop perming my hair.  It was a very interesting process that started out as a solution to repairing my very damaged hair and led me on a journey to self-acceptance.  One day I realized that my hair would stay straight with a simple flat iron.  It was [...]

I’m grown and have been for a while now, so when comes to getting my “freak on” I gets it in, that means, I push my limitations sexually, and in this case electronically. No, not everyone gets the “business” but it does get doled out from time to time. Now with this disclaimer out of [...]

Miles’ family and attorney said he was hit with a stun gun and hospitalized after the violent Homewood struggle during which a chunk of his hair was yanked out and a tree branch went through his gums.

Color had been made the mark of enslavement and was taken to be also the mark of inferiority; for prejudice does not reason, or it would not be prejudice…If prejudice could reason, it would dispel itself,” a quote from author, orator and journalist, William Pickens.

ROME — More than a thousand African workers were put aboard buses and trains in the southern Italian region of Calabria over the weekend and shipped out to immigrant detention centers, following some of the country’s worst riots in years.