By: Manuel Ward Article Submission I’m a Black Male and I grew up on the Westside of Chicago. That’s one of the hardest stories you can ever go through. Dodge bullets everyday just to make it to school and I make good grades. That’s amazing, all through the faith that God gave me. You don’t know what I go through on a daily, dodge bullets, and hide behind cars…. Why because everybody on the corner try to act hard. I stand tall because I got GOD and
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previous editions of Black Truth News starting with Volume 1
Where Are the People of Color in Children’s Books?
Of 3,200 children’s books published in 2013, just 93 were about black people, according to a study by the Cooperative Children’s Book Center at the University of Wisconsin. By WALTER DEAN MYERS Article Submission Reading came early to
Read moreCalvin’s Undisputed Truth: “Good Friday & Easter Are Pagan Holidays”
Easter And Good Friday the festivals of demons. By: Calvin Holloway Staff Writer Most of the stuff we are seeing in these days is a form of paganism. Easter origin comes from the goddess
Read moreSummertime Kicks
Fratelli Rosetti Suede Derbies By: Jarrod Horton Staff Writer Saw these joints over at esquire.com and the all possibilities of summertime flyness start to pop up. Freak them with some oxford socks and khakis or
Read moreFrankie Knuckles and the Chicago I.D
By: Jarrod Horton Staff Writer Good food, bad weather, and house music; that’s Chicago in a nutshell. Of course, the city is known for much more than that; but the late great DJ Frankie Knuckles
Read moreThe Loser’s Party: A Hundred Years of Wrigley Field
By:Jarrod Horton Staff Writer This year marks the 100th birthday of the legendary baseball diamond known as Wrigley Field. This also marks hundred years of the Chicago Cubs losing there. The Cubs have yet to
Read moreOne of College’s Super Freshmen Declares for the Draft
By: Jarrod Horton Staff Writer Andrew Wiggins, freshman guard for the Kansas Jayhawks declared for the NBA draft on Monday. Surrounded by family, friends and his college coach Bill Self, Wiggins announced he will be
Read moreCalvin’s Undisputed Truth >>> Worshipping the Dragon: “The Ignorance of Sunday Church”
Jesus went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day which is Saturday; yet millions of people get it wrong every Sunday By: Calvin Holloway Staff Writer “But if our gospel be hid, it is hid
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