The Arts & Music Present "We Can't Breathe: Voice of the Voiceless" (Spoken Word Poetry & Hip Hop Compilation) Inspired By Michael Brown, Eric Garner, & Tamir Rice

The Arts & Music, national promotional platform for Performing & Creative Artists, have just released their last 'must hear' Digital Release of 2014. "We Can't Breathe: A Voice of the Voiceless," is a collective of powerful, passionate Spoken Word Poetry, fused with the elements of conscious Hip Hop Music.

What many are calling "Much

Two unpublished groups of Lincoln-related documents will appear at a Yonkers, N.Y. auction on Jan. 6, 2015.

A group of eight Illinois manuscripts, signed by Lincoln in 1842, begins just two years after receiving his law license.  Other signers include James Matheny, best man at Lincoln's wedding that year, best friend Joshua Speed, and Stephen A. Douglass, future opponent for the Presidency.

This Prairie-years case, in which Abe represented a defaulting Springfield Mayor, is the earliest and

Once again, the nation is compelled to mourn the death .of police officers. Rightly so, if such mourning changes the dynamics of the relationship between a para-militarized police and the communities in which they patrol. By no sense of the imagination should anyone be cavalier about the killing of a police officer, no more than they shou1d be when a police officer wrongly kills a civilian, especially an unarmed civilian. But that is the point. When the valorization of the life of a police off

The peaceful protestors of the killing of unarmed black males by police are magnificent. In addition to dealing with these horrible murders, they must face criticism from a variety of sources intent on silencing them.  From the biased media is understandable and expected. But, from friends in high places, especially in response to the recent  shooting of two policemen, must be alarming. The killing of these two policemen by a madman has become a pretext to silence protests.  The fact of the matt

NATIONWIDE BOYCOTT BEGINS

“SORRY LOTTO, NOT A DIME” is the campaign slogan for a national boycott by the Lottery Reinvestment Coalition.  The Coalition’s major objective is to have at least 50% of all state Lottery revenues generated from low- to moderate-income communities, reinvested back into these communities within a six-month time frame.  

The Coalition’s statement of purpose is to confront law-enforcement misconduct nationwide and abolish the “school to prison” pipeline afflicting the Black

Where young trees shaped like pyramids
are killed
then decorated
then dead trees planted in living rooms
like dead seeds planted in living wombs
soon go toxic
we wonder then why the children are born sick
we fall hard for their lies and tricks
longing for a piece of their rotten American pie
our elders moan
while the young die quick
tis their season

Young trees are hewn from their roots
grown to bear no fruits
harvested for yurugu’s pleasure
treasure for a day
then they meet the fire
tis their s

World Patent Marketing Makes A New Years Resolution To Focus On The Top Ten Countries Likely To See An Increase In Patent Filings

World Patent Marketing projects an increase in patent filings in developing markets and economies.

World Patent Marketing, the world’s fastest growing patent and inventor services organization, has recently released an infographic with their projections for the top ten countries most likely to file more patents over the next five years.

“We have found that GDP is one

The 4th edition of the New York Forum AFRICA, the only pan-African economic forum to be held inAfrica in 2015, will bring together more than 1500 business and political leaders onMay 29-31 2015 in Libreville, Gabon.

The theme for NYFA 2015, organized under the High Patronage of His Excellency Ali Bongo Ondimba, President of the Gabonese Republic, is Invest in the Energy Continent. It will focus on the new dynamism in the continent, its entrepreneurs, economic and investment opportunities, the gr

People tend to view reality through the lens of their personal experience or biases, even when completely irrelevant to a particular issue or incident. Yet, sometimes one's personal experience and knowledge - with investigation - can bring relevant insight or contemplation to a given situation. I raise this inspired by increasingly disturbing developments in the Bill Cosby rape scandal. Particularly since Black former model Beverly Johnson darkened (with her complexion) the bevy of still mostly

Even as I disembarked the subway to join the March For Justice in Washington DC on Saturday December 13 2014, I was surprised by my  overwhelming feeling of deep sadness.  As I joined the thousands on Pennsylvania Avenue, I just could not shake it. I felt too sad to even join the chants of “No justice, No Peace”, nor raise my hands to ”Hands up, Don’t shoot!” I just could not help thinking of tragedy of those victims of police killings. I was haunted by the videos of the killings. Tamir Rice was

Contrary to the refrain from the tragic Ferguson, Mo., shooting of Michael Brown, we know that keeping your hands up does not mean you will not be shot. Assata Shakur had her hands up when she was shot on the New Jersey turnpike by a State Trooper, Oscar Grant was laying face down on a subway platform when he was shot in the back by a Bay Area Transit cop, Sean Bell was executed in a hail of bullets by a half dozen N.Y. city cops while sitting in a car, and Trayvon Martin fought to defend himsel

Afrika Bambaataa, Harry Belafonte's BeatStreet, SugarHill Records, Disco Fever in 2015 Hip Hop Hall of Fame Awards Inductees Class for TV Show March 2015 NYC
Producer Hip Hop Global Media & Entertainment Starts Talks with Cable & TV Broadcasters and Potential Sponsors with Press Conference Kick-Off Scheduled January 2015

The 2015 Hip Hop Hall of Fame Awards Inductee Class will be lead by Afrika Bambaataa for Lifetime Achievement, Harry Belafonte'sclassic Hip Hop Film BeatStreet now celebrating 30

Washington, DC - Members of the Project 21 black leadership network are criticizing Al Sharpton's planned weekend protest in Washington, D.C., saying the protest likely will do nothing but stir up tension while the root causes of high crime and low hope in black communities go unaddressed.

On December 13, Sharpton plans to bring

Some people would call the demonstrators and those in support of them radical and trouble makers, but that would not at all be the truth.  Blacks have been a restrained and a controlled people in these lands and in all the lands that took Slaves to build their empires.  And since the end of Slavery, descendants of Slaves have endured pain and suffering, cruelty and endless racist acts that have been covered up or rendered nonexistent, and have been left out of the equal distribution of wealth. 

Do you believe that the political unification of the African States is a matter of utmost urgency for Africans on the continent and in the Diaspora?

Do you agree with Kwamé Nkrumah when he stated that; "It is clear that we must find an African solution to our problems, and that this can only be found in African unity. Divided we are weak; united, Africa could become one of the greatest forces for good in the world"?

Are you sick and tired of watching Africans being helpless when faced with natural

Black Greek Organizations Must Wake Up and Help Solve Our Problems by Charles E. Campbell, MSW, CEO 12/5/14 Self-hatred, masked by a pretense of unity is a huge problems with Black Greek Organizations, who are sleeping giants. They are afraid of their own potential and keep selecting weak leadership that lacks the moral courage to stop hiding behind 100 year old Mandated Programs that solve no real issues within the Black African American Community. More Black Greek Members are non-financial and