Call to Action

Don’t think for a minute that the ill gotten gains earned by the Kardashian Klan is put back into the US economy.

Li Qiang, the executive director of China Labor Watch, says that the reality stars are turning a blind eye to human rights abuses, for the sake of their bottom line. “People like the Kardashians are producing their products in China because they will get more profit, since the labor cost is so low compared to the United States and other countries,” he tells Star exclusively.

The sweatshop workers live in squalid factory-run dormitories filled with the stench of sewage while toiling up to 84 hours during seven-day work weeks to produce some of the goods that helped Kourtney, 32, Kim, 31, Khloé, 27, mom Kris, 56, and the rest of their family earn $65 million last year. Continue Reading…

A recent trip to the Bronx Charter School for the Arts found the South Bronx native Swizz Beats interacting with students and sharing his expertise as a musician and artist.

Swizz has given generously to Bronx Arts not only with his money – he donated $50,000 to the school earlier this year – but also with his passion and in-school visits .

TheGrio.com followed the Grammy-winning producer and rapper to the school as part of itsLiving Forward series on celebrities making a difference.

Here is what Swizz Beats had to say: Continue Reading…

Dr. Benjamin Chavis Muhammad is about to make an important announcement today and guess what– HSK has the drop first.

Here’s an email sent to me from Dr. Benjamin Chavis Muhammad:

Dear Jacky,

Thank you. We will have a press conference tomorrow morning at 10am, National Press Club, Washington, DC to formally announce the launch of Occupy the Dream into the Occupy Wall Street movement to challenge income inequality in America. We have assembled some of the key clergy from about 30 cities across the US who will be at the press conference to stand shoulder to shoulder in unity with OWS.

We will have national days of action via Occupy the Dream beginning at Federal Reserve Banks on January 16, 2012 in many different cities through April 7, 2012 with large mass gathering in DC.

During my teenage years, I worked with SCLC and Dr. King as a youth organizer for Dr King in my home state of NC in the 1960s.

Now, today, OWS is fulfilling Dr. Kings dream for economic justice for all. I have known serious movement to transform America and to help all people empower themselves. We all should strive to “occupy” a universal consciousness for the equality of all people.

Jacky, I hope this brief summary helps to explain some of what we are planning and why.

God bless,
Ben

Wait there’s more!!!

Ja Rule wrote an open letter from prison and when I read it I understood where Ja was coming from — and guess what? it’s sad, but very true.  Sometimes it takes being incarcerated for some of us to understand the meaning of life.

Here’s Ja Rule’s open letter from prison:

My first night here was crazy inmates screaming, banging, and kicking the doors calling the male CO’s bitch ass niggas & faggots telling the female CO’s how they gonna fuck em, throwing plates of food out their cells onto the floor LOL. WELCOME TO THE GREEN MONSTER! Continue Reading…

The petition can be found at: NO MORE KARDASHIANS

The people have spoken…..and they are not fans of the Kardashian brand.

Over 100,000 signatures in just under 48 hours is a huge statement from the people and the list is still gaining thousands of signatures every hour. Organizers expect the number would be double, except for the fact that demand was so great, the GoPetition servers have been repeadedly knocked offline due to the extreme demand. Continue Reading…