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NIPSEY; THE PRICE FOR EMPOWERMENT

Nipsey Hussle’s Work In The Black Community Went Deeper Than You Think Before his death, the rapper was involved in projects focused on revitalizing his South LA neighborhood and supporting STEM among black and brown youths. When Los Angeles–based rapper Nipsey Hussle was shot and killed on March 31 at the age of 33, […]

RACE is a LIE by Jane Elliot

Jane Elliott: The INTERVIEW

Anti-Racism Activist Jane Elliott Will Never Stop Fighting Jane Elliott was teaching elementary school in Riceville, Iowa, in 1968 when Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot and killed in Memphis, Tennessee. In thinking about how to convey the enormity of what happened and why to her all-white class of third graders, she put together a […]

Jane Elliot in San Diego

She tells it like it is, “Ignorance is the core of the racial problem.” An hour history lesson from Jane Elliott is worth a 12-year Ph.D. in any educational circle. She’s everything we thought she would be and more. This visit was especially important due to the timely U-T incident where cartoonist, Steve Breen created […]

Meet the iGEN

Meet iGen: The new generation of workers that is almost everything millennials aren’t Just as managers got used to managing their millennial employees, there’s a new generation knocking on the doors of employers: iGen. Born between 1995 and 2012, the first of iGen graduated from college last spring. (iGen is sometimes called “GenZ,” but with […]

Most-Educated Group in the Country

African American Women Most Educated Group in the Country By Kali Halloway -June 29, 2018 Statistics on black women and education have shown them leading all other gender and racial groups for a few years now. More than half of all black women specifically between the ages of 18 and 24 are enrolled in college, […]

Separated Children

It’s Only Going to Get Worse By ~ Dr. Bob Filner “Family Reunification”: how is it gonna happen? We all know how often bureaucracy fails to work. Bureaucracy at the border is thousand times worse. Presumably, the separated children were not tattooed with a case number (although the whiff of fascism is in the air, […]

Michael Fisher Keeps His Passion Clean

Michael Fisher steers a new direction while giving back by Vyncent De’ Vaughn As service-based businesses continue to stray away from the brick and mortar establishments of old, digital & mobile convenience steer the new direction for successful business models. Whether it’s the food delivery boom, or the ridesharing revolution, solving problems for those caught […]

Prince Sefa-Boakye; a Graduate of Law

The San Diego Monitor News Congratulates Prince Sefa-Boakye on his Focus, Law School accomplishments, and his Future Endeavors. I met Prince several years ago when he was a sophomore at SDSU. I never would forget meeting him at the Lyceum Theater, he tapped me on my shoulder and said “ I’m going to write for […]