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What is progression?

For years people of color have been fighting. Fighting, screaming, crying, longing, begging, demanding, and peacefully asking to be treated fairly. However, with much sorrow and defeat, the call for equal treatment has been met with a unmistakable harsh NO. If you think I wrong, name all of the twitter hashtags of young black people killed in America. You can't, because there are to many to count. To many to individually grieve for and hurt for because of their untimely deaths. To many to individually solve and eventually figure out why. In cases like these, there are more questions than answers. As a adult you try to figure out the situation for yourself. Try to digest and process your emotions. However, on top of all that, you have eyes looking at you. A child, young sibling, or cousin. In other words, someone more innocent and at times more emotionally vulnerable than you. After years of heart-breaking verdicts, and just living this unfair and hard like, we adapt. We grow th...

#PositiveBlackMan

Hi, its April 1st. So, new month and new results are here. It is time to seize the moment, while it is here right now. Anyway, I want to talk about a new campaign/project we are working on. If you follow the Brown Brother on twitter: @BrownBrotherWeb , you will see we got some good things going on over there. If your not following us, you are missing out. Because we have yet another hashtag that we are doing to raise awareness. However, instead of raising awareness for a injustice, we are doing one to spread positivity and prosperity. The hashtag that we have started is #PositiveBlackMan #PositiveBlackMan is a hashtag that was created to counter the negativity that is attached to the black male through the media, propaganda, and untrue, yet active stereotypes that have been around longer than any one of us. So, this hashtag is basically self-explanatory. Every day at various times, we tweet out two positive images of Black Males of any and all ages. We balance the negativit...