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“CBCF Perspectives” OPINION: Black Health Matters

Here is a typical scene across Black America: it’s the first Sunday of the month and the family gathers for another Sunday dinner.

“CBCF Perspectives” OPINION: True Heritage?

As the recent tragedy involving the mass shooting of nine African Americans while attending Bible study in Charleston, South Carolina continues to plague the hearts of millions, the shooter has been in photographs proudly honoring the Confederate Battle Flag.

HIV in My Community: Anacostia Gets Tested

The Centers for Disease Control & Prevention says African Americans accounted for an estimated 44% of all new HIV infections among adults and adolescents (aged 13 years or older) in 2010, despite representing only 12% of the US population.

“CBCF Perspectives” OPINION: Dear Rachel, You cannot Redefine ‘Blackness’

Recently the concept of Blackness was brought to the forefront of trending topics when Rachel Dolezal, a White woman of Czech and German descent and president of Spokane, Washington chapter of NAACP, falsely identified herself as a Black woman.

America’s Greatest Mental Illness

Thursday, June 18, 2015 is a day Charleston and the nation will never forget. While hosting bible study, Reverend Clementa Pinckney and eight parishioners were gruesomely murdered at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church.

On Charleston…a Petition for a Remedy of Apathy

To those who live in counties and cities all across the nation: I have a literal question. How many more of these types of incidents whether racial, gun violence related, or acts of terrorism?

The Disoriented Trilogy for the Black Male Manhood ~ Masculinity ~ Manliness

Imagine the total number of younger and older black males who lack awareness that the trilogy of manhood, masculinity and manliness even exist.

“CBCF Perspectives” OPINION: Remove the Confederate Flag from the South Carolina Statehouse

As a South Carolina native, this week’s shooting at Emanuel AME Church affected me profoundly and personally.

Dear Sister Rachel Dolezal

After watching your interview recently on the Today Show; I wanted to reach out to you in sisterly love; not sisterly love because you identify as “black”, but sisterly love; woman to woman; as an African woman.

Who Will Save our Boys? Public Policy or Personal Ownership?

I recently had the amazing opportunity to attend my first Black Enterprise Entrepreneurs Summit in Atlanta, GA, a three-day business event tailored to both established business owners and aspiring entrepreneurs.