President Barack Obama visited Morehouse College on a rainy Sunday afternoon to give a refrain on the responsibility of Morehouse Men and black America to find dignity and progress in self-reliance, a refrain that has simultaneously proven exciting and excruciating for African Americans over the last four years. His commencement speech was highly-anticipated as an opportunity to reconnect the Obama ... Read More »
If you thought for one second the Voice of the Negro wasn’t going to celebrate the major historical moment of #MLKObamaDay, then you were wrong. Dead wrong. This past Monday I attended radio station WVON’s 1690 inaugural party, held at The Grand Ballroom on 63rd Cottage Grove. Founded in 1926, WVON is a talk-radio station that caters to an African ... Read More »
Ya’ll know I love me some President Obama. Shout out to TIME Magazine for naming him the 2012 Person of the Year. I mean seriously, who else would win (besides Michelle Obama)? Read more at TIME by clicking here. Congrats Mr. President! Oh, I’m still waiting on my invite to the White House Love Always, Nikki Read More »
So I must have been living under a rock, or I can blame the fact that I don’t have cable (ugh, the struggle is real, but I’m working on it). Anyway, so apparently Jamie Foxx called President Obama “Our Lord & Savior” at the Soul Train Awards this past Sunday. As most of you guys know I am a believer ... Read More »
The Jackson family has always been… well…. just simply there. Growing up in Chicago you always heard about Rev. Jesse Jackson, and when his son came along, it was the same for him as well. The Jackson’s are present at every major Chicago event (especially Rev. Jesse Jackson). Their name is bound to arise in any conversation surrounded by issues ... Read More »
If any picture is worth a thousand words, I’d definitely say it is the one featured above. Just thinking about it gives me chills. I’m so happy I can say I was in Washington D.C. to witness history occur. This moment right here made me more than proud to be an African American. For once in her life America had ... Read More »
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