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Jessie Jackson: Benton Harbor Needs An Uprising

Jessie Jackson: Benton Harbor Needs An Uprising

This is pretty scary.. Under Michigan’s new law, elected officials can be stripped of their powers and a corporate head can be appointed to run the city…This is what happens when you don’t vote as folks in Michigan are finding out..Extremist get into office and run the table -Davey D- Benton Harbor, Mich., is a [...]

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Rhymefest Forces a Runoff for Chicago Alderman-Here’s our Interview

Rhymefest Forces a Runoff for Chicago Alderman-Here’s our Interview

Big shout out to Chicago’s Rhymefest for forcing a run off as he continues his bid for alderman in Chi-Towns 20th ward.  It’s a classic battle in which a young Grammy Award winning artist is going up against an older incumbent retired police officer named Willie Cochran. Rhymefest  recently got the endorsement of his rivals [...]

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An Open letter to President Obama about Oscar Grant

     I sent this to the White house. Although it may never reach him, I sent it anyway. “The price of having hope is sometimes disappointment, but the price of having no hope is always failure…” ~ Immortal Technique Dear Mr. President, I am writing to ask that you bring national attention to the [...]

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The Rise of Facism: More & More Journalists are Being Attacked by Police

Seems like with each passing day we are hearing and seeing more and more police getting drunk with power. Even though most are one of two paychecks away from being in deep financial trouble, many ignorantly like to go overboard and smash on people who they know are legitimately protesting policies that in the long [...]

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Is T-Pain an Uncle Tom? Should Hip Hop Treat Him the Way Country Treated the Dixie Chicks?

Is T-Pain an Uncle Tom?: The Coming Out of Closet Conservatives by Paul Scott “But they use you for an example. They would rep’ but our heroes got their hands full” -These are our Heroes-Na-s Sellout; Sambo; Uncle Tom. These are all terms to describe someone who turns his back on the black community to serve [...]

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League of Young Voters Teams Up w/ Hip Hop Artists to Encourage Folks to Fill Out Census

The League of Young Voters Latest Initiative Aims to Get Our Nation’s Youth Involved in the 2010 Census Through the Innovative Platform of 99Problems.org   Los Angeles, CA (April 6, 2010) – Nearly a year after Barack Obama was sworn in as the nation’s first African American president, today The League of Young Voters Education [...]

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Did a Racist Coup in a Northern Louisiana Town Overthrow its Black Mayor and Police Chief?

 Waterproof, Louisiana, and the region around it may be majority Black, but White Power is determined to prevail by any means necessary. White parish officials replaced the town’s African American mayor and arrested the Black police chief for kidnapping when he placed a lawbreaker under arrest. “They are determined to let you know you have [...]

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Court Rule For Comcast Net Neutrality Falls on Our Watch-That's a Damn Shame!

Just getting word about the FCC being defeated in court against Comcast over the issue of Net Neutrality. The courts ruled that the FCC has no authority to enforce Net Neutrality principles. This now opens the doors for any of the large telecoms like AT&T and Verizon who have spent millions of dollars  lobbying politicians, [...]

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