The Cafe' [Think Tank]

The fight to reclaim the pride and heritage of the Black man has been a tedious, but yet fulfilling battle. After hundreds of years of lies told about the Black man, nature has made it possible that we are at a great reawakening and that facts about ancient Black civilizations are exposed daily. The knowledge which we have gathered on the history of Black civilizations has set the Black race on a new path – a path to pride and self-awareness. Which African school would have ever thought Africans this secretes? None actually. That Is because, even till date, the curriculum of many African schools is decided by European governments. The first humans on earth were black people. And since that is so and has been proven by historians, scientists, and archeologists, it is safe to agree that Black people dominated many parts of Europe for thousands and hundreds of years, before the European (Caucasians) stock moved in. Italy, which is known for housing Rome, was ori...

Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith addressed son Jaden Smith's health on a new episode of the Facebook Watch series "Red Table Talk." The hit show is hosted by Pinkett Smith, her mother Adrienne Banfield Norris, and daughter Willow Smith .  "Will and I had a bit of an intervention with Jaden because he wasn't getting enough protein, so he was wasting away," Jada said on the latest episode. "He just looked drained, he was just depleted, he wasn't getting the nutrients."  "He was getting the dark circles under his eyes," Will added. "There was even a little grayness to his skin and we got really nervous, but you're definitely looking better now."  Jaden, who's been a vegetarian for the past year, said that he was eating approximately two meals a day, and sometimes just "one big meal."  Watch the video below (the Smiths talk about Jaden's health at 7:20).  Vi...

An elderly veteran who has owned his home since the 1930's was evicted and thrown out on the street by government because he couldn't afford his property taxes.   Fort Worth, TX – A 79-year-old veteran suffering from dementia was evicted from his long-time family home on Friday, and his belongings scattered across the front yard, after failing to pay a $6,000 property tax bill. “ All this is furniture from my living room ,” Billie McGruder, who lived in the house for decades,  told  a crew from CBS DFW. “ It’s out there for everybody to see. ” Only two weeks prior to his 80th birthday, McGruder got a knock on the door informing him that it was time to vacate the home he inherited from his parents who bought the house in the 1930s. “ They come to evict me for back taxes ,” said McGruder. Tarrant County records reveal that authorities seized his home over nearly  $6,000  in unpaid taxes and auctioned the property off to a real estate compan...

June Black, organic chemistry chief of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection’s Bureau of Laboratories, demonstrates equipment that will be used to extract PFAS from water samples. The lab acquired new equipment to enable DEP to identify and measure concentrations of PFAS in drinking water being sampled across the state. (Timothy B. Wheeler)   Widely used in consumer and industrial products, including fire-fighting foam, PFAS are now cropping up in groundwater near military bases, airports, factories. Timothy Wheeler,   BayJournal.com Not long ago, Nathan Volpi began wondering about the safety of the tap water that he, his wife and two young children had been drinking for years. Volpi, a lawyer, had heard worrisome stories from friends and relatives in southeastern Pennsylvania about tainted drinking water found near military bases there. The same contaminants had turned up in wells serving Harrisburg International Airport just across the Susquehan...