“On the fifth anniversary of the disappearance of honors teen Phylicia Simone Barnes, I have chosen to publish a series of articles which highlight her older sister’s perspective pertaining to the child’s tragic killing and the circumstances surrounding the ensuing criminal cases that followed, and her efforts to launch a national campaign through clothing apparel

Now that the state and defense have both rested their cases in the criminal trial of William Porter, one of six police officers charged in the death of Freddie Gray, we can start to grasp a closer look at what actually happen the day Gray was arrested in West Baltimore and subsequently encountered a severe

He was celebrated perhaps as one of Baltimore’s greatest native sons, who emerged from poverty, and manifested a street pedigree from his days as a hooligan while navigating the card parlors, pool halls and back-alley crap games of West Baltimore. An endeavor that “Little Melvin” Williams would eventually transform into a multi million dollar empire. Many

When the world first became aware of the terrorist attacks in Paris on Friday the 13th, it sent shock waves of fear across the globe. The Western World Governments and its allies quickly spent the story as a direct result of ISIS. The media has been promoting propaganda about the so called terrorist group for

On the day family and friends buried one of Sandtowne-Winchester’s own native sons,  Freddie Gray, violence and rioting erupted across Baltimore City. Historians labeled such an uprising as “the lid finally popping off of a social and political fire storm within one of Baltimore’s most disenfranchised communities that had been simmering for generations.” In the

In the three years since her daughter was murdered in a Stone Mountain Georgia apartment, there have been lots of tears, few leads, and very perplexing perspectives offered by many surrounding the death of young Vanessa Marie Malone, who was affectionately known by family and friends as “Honey.” Her mother says that she can’t unravel

How often in the American public do you see the kind of explosive behavior that transpired in Roanoke Virginia yesterday, where a disgruntled former news reporter (a black man) went off the deep end and killed two of his former colleagues? Like me, I’m sure most can’t recall such a fiasco in recent memory. It’s

While the black community is once again being asked to reframe from drawing conclusions over exactly how 28-year-old Sandra A. Bland died at a Waller Texas County Jail, new video has emerged showing exactly what happened when Texas State Trooper Brian T. Encinia pulled Bland over for allegedly failing to signal during a lane change.

According to Blogger Jared Taylor the slum communities, poverty, and other social deprivations which permeates the African American community are of our own making. Taylor is a writer for a Blog entittled: “American Renaissance” and recently wrote a piece highlighting a New York Times article supposedly detailing the true cause for the riots that erupted

The Baltimore Fraternal Order of Police along with attorneys for six city officers who were charged with the death of Freddie Gray, have called for Baltimore’s top prosecutor Marilyn Mosby to recuse herself from handling the high profile case surrounding the death of a young black man who sustained serious injury while in police custody,