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(Richmond VA – Aug. 20, 2009) Are you addicted to that "creamy crack"? Millions of African American women visit hair salons every month in search for a "fix" for their highly textured "nappy" natural hair. Ironically called a relaxer, this chemical remedy for a perceived problem of tense, tightly curled coils that occur naturally among African Americans; implies that African hair is wild & excited and needs to calm down. Some have lye, others have no - lye; however the truth is many… Continue

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Bro. Kumasi is a historian of the Black August Organizing Committee & was a comrade of George Jackson and one of the founders of Black August 30 years…

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Register Your Business on the Black Business Directory



As the economic crisis looms we have to look at the model that the past has provided. Marcus Garvey during the early 1900 promoted buying black and supporting black business, during the segregation era the black business districts termed Black Wall Streets provided employment, commerce and economic fortitude for the black community.



People are unemployed in large amounts, and if we think that racial discrimination was… Continue