Before Cash Money Records, Death Row Records, No Limit Records, or hell, even before Motown, there was Black Swan Records, the second Black-owned and operated record company and the FIRST to succeed commercially. The first Black-owned and operated record company was Broome Special Phonograph Records that was established in 1919…
Today is July 4th. Apparently it is also the 244th celebration of the birth of a nation: America, land of the free, home of the brave. This 4th hits a little different though. Not for Black people. Nah. Frederick Douglass gave his “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of…
Writing Black Lives Matter on my money has been something I’ve done for years. I even wrote it on Canadian dollars when I visited Toronto. If a person or business does not accept my Black Lives Matter dollars then it signals to me that I do not need to support…
We are watching the making of history. The American people took our frustrations to the streets in dozens of cities across the country, collectively protesting the unjust killings of Black people. These protests were set off days prior by the lynching of George Floyd by the Minneapolis Police Department. This…
Why are Black deaths the only deaths that are allowed to go viral? Why do people only record Black death and not physically help in preventing it? Why do we get FULL access to multiple angles of our lynchings? Why are the last words of our deceased made into slogans?…