Month: April 2019

From Dr. Diane Stewart (quoted in the article): “African heritage religions provide a continued kinship relationship with your departed family members and [show] that death is a doorway to continued life. There is an invisible community of deities and spirits that operate and have power, that emphasizes the healing of individuals and social experience and relationships. That ritual, which we saw as a simple pouring of water, is intended to keep those passageways open between the visible and invisible world”

 

During the memorial service for Eritrean-American rapper Nipsey Hussle, his mother Angelique Smith emphasized how her spirituality helps her deal with grief.

Source: Nipsey Hussle’s Memorial Was a Celebration of African Spirituality – Broadly

Sometimes, there’s no need to type any words words….

Aretha Franklin, Detroit’s “Queen of Soul,” has been honored with a special Pulitzer Prize for her decades of achievement.

Source: Aretha Franklin posthumously awarded 2019 Pulitzer Prize

After a group of boys decided to trap and menace girls in the girls bathroom at school, the school promptly sided with the boys and suspended one of the girls for fighting back to get away from the boys.

The Fairbanks Daily News Miner reported Rep. Tammie Wilson, R-North Pole, criticized North Pole High School for the act.

Source: Girl suspended for kneeing boy in groin after group blocked girls’ bathroom door | kgw.com

C.J. Wallace, the son of rap icon The Notorious B.I.G. and R&B legend Faith Evans, is honoring his father’s legacy with a new company that will focus on cannabis products as well as social justice initiatives.

Source: Notorious B.I.G.’s Son Is Launching A Cannabis Company As Part Of A Social Justice Initiative | BLAVITY

Anakwa Dwamena writes that E.L.A.M., a medical school on the outskirts of Havana, is enticing prospective American medical students—predominantly black and Latino—to pursue medicine without incurring catastrophic debt.

Source: Why African-American Doctors Are Choosing to Study Medicine in Cuba | The New Yorker

Elliott Eddie, a serial entrepreneur, has finally invented the game that no one else has thought of

Source: Black Inventor Creates Board Game That Teaches Children and Adults How to Start a Business

The U.S. spends more on prisons and jails than it does on educating children – and 15 states spend at least $27,000 more per prisoner than they do per student, according to a new report.

Americans account for 4.4 percent of the global population, but 22 percent of the world’s prison population

Source: Incarceration vs. education: America spends more on its prison system than it does on public schools | Daily Mail Online