The Black Informant | African American Commentary, News and Community Building

Alright, alright, put your light sabers down. Yoda, Jabba, have a seat. The force that I am talking about is the ever-growing blogsphere. My reference to “dark” describes the increasing amount of blacks that are getting on the blogsphere.
I can remember back in the day when the Internet was just catching on, I was immediately [...]

On this date in 1972 the first National Black Political Assembly was held.
Some eight thousand African Americans (three thousand of whom were official delegates) arrived in Gary, Indiana, to attend their first convention, which was more commonly known as the “Gary Convention.†A sea of Black faces chanted, “It’s Nation Time! It’s Nation Time!” No [...]