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Is mainstream hip-hop a grave threat to our children?

Is mainstream hip-hop a grave threat to our children?

    This is part five of a theGrio series on hip-hop and its cultural impact on black America. Click here for part one of the series. Sometimes I think rappers are deliberately trying to get kids killed out here. The influx of negative imagery in music increasingly has absolutely no socially redeeming value and resembles ancient Sodom [...]

Let’s Get ‘Cheeky,’ Ladies

Let’s Get ‘Cheeky,’ Ladies

    I’ve recently been inspired to talk about these bodies of ours… these beautiful, sacred, wise and sexy bodies of ours! So in the coming days and weeks, I’d like to share some of my thoughts. This feature could come in two, three or three hundred installments! I don’t know, I’d just like to [...]

Black Obesity, Policy & Anger Towards Michelle Obama

Black Obesity, Policy & Anger Towards Michelle Obama

By Darron Smith According to the Centers for disease control (CDC), a person with a body mass index (BMI) of more than 25 is considered overweight. BMI is a quick approximation that assesses for body fatness in an effort to help screen for obesity. Obesity is a serious problem in the United States and is [...]

Anti-Obama Loony Ted Nugent Literally Pooped His Pants to Keep from Being Drafted

Anti-Obama Loony Ted Nugent Literally Pooped His Pants to Keep from Being Drafted

The bigger they talk, the weaker they usually are.  Ted Nugent is known for being the biggest anti-Obama voice of the Right Wing.  He is also considered somewhat racist for attacking the president in a really nasty way.  Nugent has even gone as far as stating that he’d like to see President Obama gone…for good…sent [...]

Professional Obama Basher Ted Nugent Gets Called Out as Draft Dodger

Professional Obama Basher Ted Nugent Gets Called Out as Draft Dodger

Ted Nugent has made bashing Obama and his supporters a national pasttime, going so far as to call Obama ‘psychotic’,  even saying the president represents everything bad about America.    But, at least one other rocker is calling Nugent out on his hypocrisy.  Twisted Sister’s Dee Snider lashed out at Nugent in an interview with Noisecreep: “Ted’s always [...]

Republicans Are the Fastest Growing Food Stamp Kings and Queens

Republicans Are the Fastest Growing Food Stamp Kings and Queens

Mitt Romney infamously said during fundraiser that he was writing off half the country because they were dependent on government, and weren’t going to vote for him. Romney’s comment implied that the people who were going to cast votes for him were not moochers, but workers and business owners, and that moochers would vote Democratic. [...]

Mr. Magoo Lookalike Says He Knows What’s Wrong With America: Poor People

Mr. Magoo Lookalike Says He Knows What’s Wrong With America: Poor People

If you’re poor, then, according to America’s elite, you’re the problem. The problem isn’t that wages have been stagnant for three decades as money has been hoarded by those at the top. And the problem certainly isn’t that rich people take advantage of tax loopholes to escape paying their fair share of income taxes. Nope. So [...]

Michigan Lotto Winner Who Was Charged With Welfare Fraud Found Dead

Michigan Lotto Winner Who Was Charged With Welfare Fraud Found Dead

A Michigan woman who admitted receiving food stamps after winning $1 million in the lottery has been found dead. Although the police have not released a cause of death, WXYZ TV in Detroit reports that police suspect a drug overdose: Amanda Clayton’s body was found in Ecorse Saturday morning. Results from the autopsy are pending. [...]

One Romney Supporter’s Solution For Reducing Welfare: “Give the Kids Up For Adoption, Execute the Parents”

One Romney Supporter’s Solution For Reducing Welfare: “Give the Kids Up For Adoption, Execute the Parents”

When you ask conservatives what’s wrong with America, they inevitably point the finger at liberals, and boldly declare that they have solutions to fix this country, if only liberals would listen. Well, Christopher D. Cook, a reporter for The Progressive, did listen, and you’ll be shocked at what he heard (or maybe not). Cook visited a Romney [...]

In Her Own Words: Mitt Romney’s Mother Says Mitt’s Father Lived Off Welfare Handouts [Video]

In Her Own Words: Mitt Romney’s Mother Says Mitt’s Father Lived Off Welfare Handouts [Video]

In a new video unearthed by BuzzFeed, Mitt Romney’s mother, Lenore Romney, is caught on video telling a reporter that her husband was on welfare during the first years of his life. This is not the first time it has been revealed that Mitt Romney’s father was on welfare. In July, Kulture Kritic published a [...]

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