S9 Architecture New York recently awarded a $3.5 million capital grant to help build the world’s first museum dedicated to hip-hop music and culture. According to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the $80 million Universal Hip Hop Museum will open in 2023 in the South Bronx – which is considered the birthplace of hip hop. The museum is currently…
The FBI Admits Black Lives Matter Was Never a Threat. It’s White People You Should Be Worried About
Screenshot: Fox Business (YouTube) Last week, as Donald Trump curtsied before the Queen; as Congressional Democrats continued to cower from their constitutional obligations; while we took our horses down to Old Town Road, mounted Megan Thee Stallion’s bandwagon and watched what happens When They See Us, the Federal Bureau of Investigation admitted that prejudiced assumptions…
24-Hour Black News Channel Launches In February
CNN changed the game in 1980 when it launched as the first 24-hour news channel. The world is about to change again with the launch of the Black News Channel (BNC). Launching on February 20, BNC will be the only television news network with news programming gathered, written, and produced “by Black people for Black…
US city to pay reparations to African-American community with tax on marijuana sales
A city in Illinois has announced it will create a reparations fund for its African American community through a new tax on marijuana sales. Recreational use of the drug will become legal in the state from January and officials in Evanston, which is 12 miles north of Chicago, have voted to approve a 3 per…
The little-known engineer who designed NASA’s 1968 Apollo 6 camera system
Mildred Europa Taylor is a writer and content creator. She loves writing about health and women’s issues in Africa and the African diaspora. Shelby Jacobs designed a camera system which flew on the unmanned Apollo 6 flight in April 1968. Pic credit: The San Diego Union-Tribune Growing up as the son of a preacher in…
China Is Not In Africa For Charity, But To Control Its Resources
Key point: China is in Africa now not to advance Maoism, but to control its resources, people, and potential. Africa is on the cusp of a new period in its history, its renaissance. Freed from centuries of colonialism and neo-imperialism, Africa has the opportunity to become a center of economic might to provide prosperity to the…
