Waking Gil Scott-Heron
The revolution will not be televised...
The revolution will not be televised...
The revolution will not be televised...
The revolution will not be televised...
The revolution will not be televised...
The revolution will not be televised... ©NEEMA

I AM INSUBORDINATE TO PASSIVITY…
By: Osage Dior

Extreme change works for me! In order for me to really transform a habit, a small jump will only have me going back to the diving board. African Americans are the most at risk to obesity. Data collected in 2007 from The Center for the Elimination of Disproportionationality and Disparity, stated that 75.3% of African American adults were overweight or obese. Another study done in 2008 researched the cause of life lost before the age of 65.  African Americans had the highest death rate when it came to diabetes, heart disease, cerobrovascular disease (stroke), and malignant neoplasms (Cancer). All these maladies can be prevented or eased if we as a people can watch what we eat, right? Or is it deeper than that- is America killing us?

Island Colors and Infancy Dreams…
By: Osage Dior

Born to Pamela Jean Lewis and Clarence Benjamin Shields in San Franciso, Brandy would grow to lead an extraordinary life were her creation of art would keep her centered amongst the struggles of the world. Her parents met in Kansas City, Missouri and went to the University of Berkeley California; both were active in the Black Panthers Movement and National Black United Front. Also, they equally became educators. The black conscious child was raised to have a great sense of oneself. During a time were racial oppression and poverty were high in the States, her mother and father decided they couldn’t risk raising a child in America. Selling all they had, leaving everyone they knew behind-they moved to St. Thomas in the Caribbean.

By: Osage Dior

On April 16, 2012-I was working in Douala, Cameroon-just turned 27. I knew that if I left my job at 12:00am in the morning to catch a taxi to get back home-nothing would happen to me. The same day an article was posted discussing four white men who was convicted for beating a black man at a downtown bus stop in Houston around midnight. These men apparently bonded over an iconic white supremacist tattoo they all had and decided to hang some strange fruit #Texasstyle. Using a ploy of, “What time is it…?”, these men gathered around Yondell Johnson at the bus stop and beat him severely.