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The health of our nation is the wealth of our nation! Therefore, if we are to build a sustainable community and movement, we must avoid poisoning ourselves with western diets at all costs! A strong first step in moving towards our independence is learning to grow our own food. But for those of us who […]

You believe that Thanksgiving was a holiday declared by Abraham Lincoln in 1863 to give “Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens”. Here is the truth: The story began in 1614 when a band of English explorers sailed home to England with a ship full of Patuxet Indians bound for […]

This year we have seen uprisings in Dallas, North Carolina (following the death of Keith Scott), and in Oklahoma after the murder of Terence Crutcher. In 2015 we had the Charleston, South Carolina Uprisings following a shooting at a Black Church, and the Baltimore Uprising following the death of Freddie Gray In 2014 we responded […]

Muhammad Ali died today at age 74. This news destroyed me. I mean, the impact this man had on the world went so far beyond the boxing ring. He was a man who stood on his principles, who knew how to fight in and out of the ring, a man of the type of courage […]

If you live in America, you are currently in the midst of the Christmas season onslaught – the biggest retail season of the entire year. If you have begun to gain Knowledge of Self, you have also begun to question the soundness of the religions that you have been born into – and you are […]

Today in the United Snakes States of America, millions will be sitting down to gluttonous feasts of dead meat, baked sweets, and enough  grease and salt to tranquilize a horse in the name of giving thanks. But before you tuck in your bib, allow me to slap you in the face with a helping of Black consciousness: […]

There is a difference between an Elder and the older in the Black Conscious Community. An individual who is ‘older’ is not automatically qualified to be an Elder. This is an important distinction that must be made if our intention is to rebuild the inclusive and progressive societies that we once lived in – and […]

A nation can only be as strong as the people that make up that nation. Despite being genetically superior to all other races, the African Diaspora has fallen victim to cancer, disease, and preventable illness at rates exponentially higher than any other group. We know that this is in large part to other groups purposefully […]

Co-Signing Other Causes Black Americans are quick to throw a cape on and come to the defense of causes outside of the Black community. From gay rights and feminism to ice bucket challenges, it seems Black America would rather distract ourselves from our own issues to support other groups that dont want or dont need […]

Education U.S.A. Today: Far From Origins Gone are the early days of education in America when facilities had real learning. These were student centered discussions, parental participants and/or observers, and the diversified academic “hands-on” forums that took less money (unlike field-trips today). Schooling in yesteryears took less than seven and a half hours a day to guide youth […]

Forward Africans!!: Where to go from here (2015 A.D.) True freedom for Africans in America must begin where it left off; on the last drawn breaths of the first to set feet in bondage on American soil. It can no longer be found or trusted in the current institutions that Africans once proudly claimed. Historically and […]

“We must teach and demonstrate the art-of-learning to promote and inspire intellectual growth in order to think and reason for harmony through understanding.” -Bandele Grade School USA How many times have we as students, teachers, substitute-teachers, parents, guardians, custodians, volunteers, and visitors have witnessed what has become an economically elite class of seemingly abrasive, arrogant, […]

America’s Eurocentopia The means to life are unequally held and controlled predominately by historically conscious Europeans (and/ or descents) that want to keep it that way. This is perhaps guided by a collective fear of global anarchy; that is their loss of cultural, political and economic influence (more so) and control (less so) over all […]

The Origins of Ethnic Diversity and Social Caste This essay is an African perspective on and solution to the impact of United States racism on African development within its ethnic diversity in the early “post-racial/colorblind” twenty-first century. The diversity of human beings may have very well existed long before recorded time and will continue to […]

Did you know that only 5 percent of all the Africans who were forced into the western hemisphere came to the United States? This fact should encourage us to learn more about the struggles and victories of our great African heroes in the Caribbean and South America, where our ancestors easily could have landed, as […]

  (Clockwise from top: Frances Cress Welsing, Marimba Ani, Joy DeGruy-Leary) “The surest way to keep people down is to educate the men and neglect the women. If you educate a man you simply educate an individual, but if you educate a woman, you educate a whole nation.” It was more than 90 years ago […]

The purpose behind websites like ours is not to entertain or to inform you. The purpose here is to inspire you to take action. As a community, we have focused far too long on deconstructing our problems and issues. Arguably, we have spent too much time on discussing potential solutions as well. Rather than discussion, […]

The following blurb was posted in the New York Daily News on Wednesday, March 11, 2015:       Dozens of kids and at least two adults watched as four teenage girls brutalized a pint-sized 15-year-old girl in a Brooklyn McDonald’s — but not one made a move to stop it, a shocking video that’s been […]

Here in the West, we are constantly fed images of starving African children with distended bellies to reinforce the myth of African inferiority. Don’t believe the hype. While it is true that warfare, drought, and other conditions contribute to periods of human suffering, those circumstances are the exceptions to the norm.   Findings from a […]

I know quite a few members of the community who buy, sell, and use Shea butter daily – and not just for cosmetic purposes. Shea is a decent treatment for medical skin conditions and skin damage. But I recently bought a jar of coconut oil, and I haven’t stopped using it since. Coconut oil can […]

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has nominated their pick of movies that are now up for awards. Almost immediately, the community noticed that “Selma” – a biopic of Martin Luther King, Jr. during the Selma to Montgomery March in 1965 –was snubbed in all but two categories, receiving a nod at Common […]

Multiple sources have confirmed for us that A grand jury voted Wednesday not to indict New York City police officer Daniel Pantaleo in the death of Eric Garner, multiple sources confirm. Pantaleo put 47-year-old Garner into a chokehold during an arrest for selling untaxed cigarettes on July 17. In a viral video of the arrest, […]

The easy days are over. Its time for you to take the hard path. Do it. Start today. To do anything else would be to make a choice unworthy of you, and of us as a people. A movement is only as strong as the members of that movement. The easy days breed easy ways. […]

This is Part 2 of the 50 Most Important Pan-African Leaders in history. A Pan-Africanist is described as one who believes in the political jurisdiction of an independent African state, the ability of Africans to control and influence their own culture and affairs, and the freedom of Africans around the world to pursue their own […]

If you live in America, I have some bad news for you: You have the worst quality of life in the developed world – by a wide margin. If you knew the truth about how other countries live, you would be ready to burn your American I.D. card, leave, and never come back. There is […]

One of the biggest problems facing the global Black community is miseducation, the systematic destruction of the Black man and woman’s knowledge of self. It wasn’t until the mid 20th century that we became aware of the fact that the so-called “education” provided by white academic institutions was a tool designed to maintain our condition […]

As we begin to wake up as a people, we are starting to realize that our new nation, our next generation, must be built on the foundation of sound values. The same must be true of every organization that claims to lead the people. As the old saying goes, you shall know a tree by […]

Before reading this article, review The Science of Mass Mind Control. It is no secret in the Black conscious community that the media is not your friend, but exactly how has the media become one of the most powerful weapons in white supremacy? How has Black entertainment become a tool for manipulation, exploitation, and the […]

Relationships…… It is so easy to get in and so hard to get out! I’ve heard the statement spoken earlier in my life on so many countless occasions by the older wiser people in my midst and didn’t have a clue as to the wisdom that was falling down oh so abundantly on my ears […]

Whenever we hear the phrase black relationships we naturally think of male-female relationships. And for good reason because they are at the center of all Black relationships. But the male-female relationship does not exist in a bubble or a vacuum. As our ancestors taught, all things are connected and interrelated; and the male-female relationship is […]

Black people, we have a problem. It is one rarely discussed amid all our talk of Black power, revolution, and the battle of the sexes. It is a crime – a form of oppression that is committed in secrecy that rarely goes discussed, prevented, or treated. According to reliable statistics, 1 in 4 women and […]

Each of us has gifts, talents, skills, and abilities, but it is what we do with them that determine their real value.  A gift could be a new car, ring, or watch. A gift could also be the love of singing and the voice to match. A gift may be the skill of being mechanically […]

This post is specifically for the single fellas. Ladies, you get your turn in the next post. I was in a cafe with a brotha the other day whose knowledge I had come to respect. He could read the medu neter and lullaby the story of Ausar. He could quote the Koran. He could cite Dr. […]

United Black America is proud to take a pause in our regularly scheduled programming to bring you another guest post from H.A. Jabar of Jabar International. Mr. Jabar has written two articles for us, including Consistent and Constant, and is the author of the fantastic ebook, The Well Made Man. We are proud and honored to have […]

First and foremost, shouts out to Bro. Michael Imhotep at the African History Network Show. His fleshing out of the psychological impact of slave – themed cinema like Django Unchained was impeccable and inspired this article. I find myself more and more frequently meditating and reflecting on the state of the media as it relates […]

The 15th and 16th centuries have been called the Age of Empires. We are taught in public schools about how Spain and Portugal explored the world’s seas and colonized large parts of Africa and the New World. The Mughal Emperor Akbar extended the power of the Mughal Empire to cover most of the Indian sub […]

Not too long ago, China resembled Africa in many ways. China was broken up into many small warring states. China was divided by language, culture, and political philosophies. China’s first Emperor was successful in unifying the fragmented tribes into one powerful nation by conquering and absorbing these states into one empire. Later on in Chinese […]

In conducting an analysis of the many reasons Black men and women in this country (America) and around the world are unable to unify, the topic of religion can’t be avoided. In fact, the more one discusses the topic, the more one comes to realize just how dangerous and divisive religion has been to Pan-Africanism. […]

In most parts of America, racism is a way of life. African-Americans in Louisville, Kentucky – and everywhere else for that matter – have been marginalized, preyed upon politically and economically, and isolated from the rest of the city. Many African-Americans within the city live behind an invisible wall – called the 9th Street Wall […]

No, this isnt a post about white supremacists shooting the country up. Ive talked about The Mental Disease of White Supremacy plenty. Yesterday, Nyesuada and I had a conversation about the state of Black culture, and how it came to its current state of decay. I recommended to him (as I recommend to you) a […]

The following is an anthropological experiment conducted in 1967 ( Sources: Stephenson, G. R. (1967). Cultural acquisition of a specific learned response among rhesus monkeys. In: Starek, D., Schneider, R., and Kuhn, H. J. (eds.), Progress in Primatology, Stuttgart: Fischer, pp. 279-288.) Begin the experiment by placing 5 monkeys is a cage. Tie a banana to the […]

America’s continual affront to justice, economic stability, and equality may have already primed the rise of a new Black Messiah. In the past, America has worked hard to prevent the rise of a unified Black movement. To prevent this movement from organizing, any and every charismatic Black man or woman was targeted, imprisoned, discredited, deported, […]

What Blacks in America can learn from the uprisings in Libya, Egypt, and Iran. First, let me say that evidence shows that these uprisings are ENGINEERED. They are not popular uprisings by the people, but of so called “rebel” groups. Even the media was confused in the beginning of the Libyan uprising, asking “who are […]