There is hope.  I breathe a deep sigh of relief as I click off from my conversation with the Black Diamonds Scholarship Fund scholarship winner Joyalise Shelton.  Joyalise is a grounded, intelligent, focused teenager.  Yep, teenager.  I am wholly impressed with this yo...

Business partners Ethan Young and Mike Hubbs have collaborated to create Exclusive Industries, LLC, aka EI, for short.  They have combined their collective years of experience as couriers and truck drivers, their business savvy and immersion in technology to create a b...

L to R: Dr. April Parker, Reverend Rikki Ferrell, Jr., Vernon Heard and Joyalise's mom Veronica Hulitt

I am VERY PLEASED to say that we culminated the fundraising for the Black Diamonds Scholarship Fund by presenting a $1,000 check to Veronica Hulitt, the mother of our...

There is a lot of feigned ignorance about wrongdoing in relation to the trigger-happy cops shooting Black citizens.  I don’t mean the explainers who try to break down why it was OK for a cop to brutalize a citizen, or throw a girl across a room like a ragdoll.  I don’t...

How many projects have you done thus far?

There’s been 11 altogether.  Counting the mixtapes and tribute records along with my official releases, The Red Pill and The Awakening.

Do you have a favorite project?  And why?

I would say it’s The Awakening, the new album.  I th...

Artel Great is an actor, poet, screenwriter, director, lecturer and technology innovator.  His film credits include The Soloist, Heavens Fall, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Dahmer, Save The Last Dance and Light It Up among others.  Artel’s resume is quite extensive and...

"I want to help. I want to stay in the community and help our people."

Natalyn Randle is an independent business woman in Los Angeles, CA.  She owns the home improvement company ‘Ease On Down The Road Home Improvement’.  She has been in business for 7 years.  After reti...

This is an interview I anticipated from the time the possibility appeared on the horizon.  I’ve viewed a number of Dr. Johnson’s speaking engagements online and was excited to capture his insight for Positive Black Images Magazine.  In my opinion, Dr. Johnson is a prof...

Trice Hickman is a popular, award-winning author with 6 novels to her credit.  On top of this she is currently in the lab working on her next book.  I got a chance to talk with Trice (pronounced like twice with an R) when she came up for air from writing a few days ago...

There are significant black speakers and leaders in the community that are not getting their due.  I don’t necessarily mean Al Sharpton and the usual suspects.  I know there is probably someone in your community that is a local activist for civil rights like Alvin Syke...