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The Devastation of Black Wall Street Tulsa, Oklahoma. 1921. A wave of racial violence destroys an affluent African-American community, seen as a threat to white-dominated American capitalism. Smoke billowing over Tulsa, Oklahoma during 1921 race riots Library of Congress By: Kimberly Fain July 5, 2017 In 1921, Tulsa, Oklahoma’s Greenwood District,Continue Reading

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Wikipedia’s definition: Fop became a pejorative term for a foolish man excessively concerned with his appearance and clothes in 17th-century England. Some of the many similar alternative terms are coxcomb,[1] fribble, popinjay (meaning ‘parrot’), fashion-monger, and ninny. Macaroni was another term of the 18th century more specifically concerned with fashion. The pejorative term today carries the connotation of a person, usuallyContinue Reading

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Curious Kids: Do butterflies remember being caterpillars? August 26, 2018 4.12pm EDT We have caterpillars at home. I would like to know whether they will remember being caterpillars when they are butterflies. – Evan, age 5, Bristol, UK.   Dear Evan, I think it is highly unlikely that a butterfly orContinue Reading

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Reading vs Watching Videos: What Science Says. posted on : november 13, 2019 posted by : the infovore secrets editorial It is a fact; reading culture is being challenged on all fronts by new technology. These new technologies are challenging the predominance of books by presenting information in alternative ways. There was aContinue Reading

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Coronavirus Florida: Lake Worth Beach meeting gets ugly and heated about emergency powers by Jorge Milian LAKE WORTH BEACH — The coronavirus isn’t just causing anxiety and frustration among residents. Thursday night’s Lake Worth Beach city commission meeting turned into a screaming, name-calling, finger-pointing affair between Commissioner Omari Hardy on one sideContinue Reading

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Uncle Tom Was a Man Who Refused to Beat Black Women We need to question the things we take as fact, this is an ongoing process. Uncle Tom was originally a character from Harriet Beecher Stowe’s 1852 novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin. As Wikipedia outlines: “Stowe’s melodramatic story humanized the suffering of slaveryContinue Reading

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Cornel West is a prominent and provocative democratic intellectual. He is the Class of 1943 University Professor at Princeton University. He graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard in three years and obtained his M.A. and Ph.D. in Philosophy at Princeton. He has taught at Union Theological Seminary, Yale, Harvard andContinue Reading

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DR. JOHN HENRIK CLARKE — JANUARY 1, 1915 – JULY 16, 1998″A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience’s attention, then he can teach his lesson.” ~John Henrik Clarke “I saw no African people in the printed and illustrated Sunday school lessons. I began to suspectContinue Reading

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Exploration of the tradition of violence in the United States of America, drawing on the history of invading settlers and native peoples, frontier outlaws and modern-day murderers, racist violence, the urban underclass, and domestic abuse. From the punishment of defenseless Native Americans by Christopher Columbus, to the domestic and raciallyContinue Reading

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Peter Joseph is an American born Musician, Filmmaker, Author and Activist; best known worldwide as the creator of the controversial and award winning “Zeitgeist Film Series” and founder of the “The Zeitgeist Movement”, a social sustainability advocacy group which currently operates in over 70 countries. He is also the curatorContinue Reading

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Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo.   You can praise them, disagree with them, quote them, disbelieve them,Continue Reading

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Sad news: Apple founder and CEO Steve Jobs has died Apple just released the following statement: The man was a true Genius and one of the most remarkable entrepreneurs and inspirational leaders in history. RIP Steve Jobs.Continue Reading

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Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is. ~Thomas Szasz The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom. ~ James Allen A mindContinue Reading

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A native of Fort Worth, Texas, Mr. Marrs earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism from the University of North Texas in 1966 and attended Graduate School at Texas Tech in Lubbock for two years more. He has worked for several Texas newspapers, including the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, whereContinue Reading

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“Man. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; heContinue Reading

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“It’s a must that I bust any mic you’re hand to me, It’s inherited, it’s runs in the family I wrote the rhyme that broke the bull’s back, If that don’t slow ’em up, I carry a full pack. Now I don’t want to have to let off, you shouldContinue Reading

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You don’t know when you’re being watched. That’s one of the weird things about celebrity. It’s my least favorite part of acting, celebrity. ~Denzel Washington If you thought you could not love Denzel Washington more, here is your chance to completely adore him! In a 2012 Times Talk  interview that we’re justContinue Reading

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Poet and songwriter was hailed as ‘Godfather of Rap’ after penning The Revolution Will Not Be Televised Gil Scott-Heron, the poet and musician regarded as the ‘Godfather of Rap’, has died in New York. Photograph: Michael Ochs archives The musician and poet Gil Scott-Heron – best known for his pioneeringContinue Reading

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“A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.” ~Oscar WildeContinue Reading

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“Enjoy the Spring of Love and Youth, to some good angel leave the rest; For Time will teach thee soon the truth, there are no birds in last year’s nest!” ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow “Spring makes its own statement, so loud and clear that the gardener seems to be onlyContinue Reading

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FROM THE FINAL CALL: Minister Louis Farrakhan blasted President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for their “arrogance” in meddling in another sovereign nation’s affairs and publicly recommending regime change. He then instructed Americans to look beneath the surface to see who stands to benefit from the unrest andContinue Reading

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“Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.” ~ JamesContinue Reading

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Each year after the Oscars, I ask myself the same question: Does wealth love celebrity, or does celebrity love wealth? It’s worth remembering that fame and money haven’t always gotten along. The rich once believed themselves superior, not only financially but also culturally and socially, to their entertainers. Even theContinue Reading

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“The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truerContinue Reading

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“For male and female alike, the bodies of the other sex are messages signaling what we must do — they are glowing signifiers of our own necessities.” ~John Updike “I can resist everything except temptation.” ~Oscar WildeContinue Reading

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“Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them.” ~Bill Cosby “Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing.” ~Quincy JonesContinue Reading

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“Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.” ~ Bob Marley “When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.” ~ Bob Marley “A little wine sometimes, that’s all. Spirits are bad. Alcohol wrong. Herb does grow.” ~ Bob MarleyContinue Reading

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Burning of Greenwood, Oklahoma – The Black Wall Street by Samuel Black After the civil war many African-Americans settled in Oklahoma because of employment opportunities from the oil fields. Around 1908 the community of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma was established. The Daily Tulsa Star was an African-American owned newspaper. BusinessesContinue Reading

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“Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction” ~ Antoine de Saint-ExuperyContinue Reading

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The Kepler telescope team announces a trove By Rebecca Boyle Posted 02.02.2011 at 12:12 pm 5 Comments Kepler 10b Closeup NASA Updated: Scores of Earth-like planets orbit sun-like stars scattered throughout the Milky Way, NASA scientists said today. This morning, the agency released data on more than 1,000 new exoplanets,Continue Reading

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  Astute observers of upper-class life commonly quote (or at least paraphrase) Balzac’s observation that behind every great fortune there’s a crime. The phrase endures because, independent of historical context, it seems to express a truth both unsettling and undeniable. All too frequently, reaching the very top of any decentContinue Reading

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For Some Powder-Sniffing Party Animals, Age Is No Obstacle by Jamie Johnson January 11, 2011, 6:56 PM At a recent Christmas party in December, I watched a close friend of mine re-enact a depraved but funny maneuver he had seen an elderly man perform earlier that evening. Using both hisContinue Reading

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Attempting to keep up with Roman Abramovich (second from left) is not advised. Credit: Condé Nast Archive. The days following New Year’s Eve traditionally are a time for reflection. Those wishing to excel in the year ahead tend to review their previous accomplishments and consider areas for improvement. More oftenContinue Reading

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How Did Christmas Come to Be Celebrated on December 25? A. Roman pagans first introduced the holiday of Saturnalia, a week long period of lawlessness celebrated between December 17-25. During this period, Roman courts were closed, and Roman law dictated that no one could be punished for damaging property orContinue Reading

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  Winter Solstice Lunar Eclipse from William Castleman on Vimeo. Why did the Moon turn red? It’s not the color of the Sun. What you are seeing is the color of every sunrise and sunset on Earth’s skies. As the Earth casts its shadows and the Sun’s light hits allContinue Reading

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“It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.” ~Mark Twain “Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson “Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinksContinue Reading

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Art Basel 2009’s opening party at the Mondrian. Photo via PatrickMcMullan.com. Whenever the leaders of the art world stage a major event, vastly rich people are never far from the scene. It’s no secret that both successful artists and the dealers who sell their work draw heavily on the fortunesContinue Reading

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Model with football players, 1939. Photo credit: Conde Nast Archive. It’s a fact of American life that practically the entire nation is devoted to professional football. Each Sunday during the fall and winter months, millions of people from all across the country plant themselves in front of the television orContinue Reading

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Thanksgiving has become synonymous with family, food and football over the years. But this unassuming American holiday is not without controversy. Schools still teach children that Thanksgiving marks the day that Pilgrims met helpful Indians who gave them food, farming techniques and other strategies to overcome the bitter New EnglandContinue Reading

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‘Land of the Free?’ from David Vincent Wolf.  Cool! “This is an image I created as part of the ongoing effort to protest the newly-minted and maximally-invasive TSA policies and practices.” via: likecoolContinue Reading

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The natural order of things doesn’t always work, as is demonstrated in this video of a fat-ass rat taking on not one, not two, not three, not four, but five alley cats. Guess who wins?Continue Reading

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TELEVISION REVIEW A Gaping Divide: Straddling Capitalism’s Fault Line By Ginia Bellafante Jamie Johnson, an heir to the pharmaceutical fortune that bears his family’s name, has made a career out of retailing his wealth guilt, and so far the results have been anything but shameful. In “Born Rich,” shown on HBOContinue Reading

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WASHINGTON (AP) – Nearly a week before the Thanksgiving travel crush, federal air security officials were struggling to reassure rising numbers of fliers and airline workers outraged by new anti-terrorism screening procedures they consider invasive and harmful.Continue Reading

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This only works on mice so far, but researchers have discovered that altering a specific protein in the brain can pinpoint and delete traumatic memories on a molecular level. Neuroscientists led by Dr. Richard Huganir at Johns Hopkins University exposed some hapless mice to scary noises, and watched what wasContinue Reading

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Actor Zach Galifinakis made television history Friday October 29, when he lit up a joint and started getting high on the Bill Mahar show. Mahar and a panel of guests were debating California’s upcoming vote on whether or not to legalize marijuana. To make a point, Galifianakis pulled out aContinue Reading

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Last week we heard about a French game show in which contestants believed they were giving other contestants life-threatening electric shocks. The stunt was based on the Stanley Milgram experiment, a highly controversial test carried out on normal folk who agreed to take part in a bonkers psychological study backContinue Reading

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DHEAS – or dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate – is produced by the brain, adrenal glands and sexual organs and is a guide to life expectancy. Researchers from University College London, working on the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing, found evidence that biological ageing is slower among people with better socio-economic circumstances. ByContinue Reading