Oh. Hello world!

My name is Jasmine B. I am a Black female, 44 years old, recent breast cancer survivor and single mom.

The election of Donald Trump in 2024 was a freeing experience for me – we can stop pretending we are included in this democratic experiment and start wondering if we even want to be and if this is even a democratic republic and if so, for whom. Not us. The taking down of Black Veterans pictures, erasing Harriet Tubman (when Democrats had promised and failed to deliver on the $20 bill with Tubman on it), had me emboldened with a mission. This is how Black Wall Street was erased, for me, personally. I was just a kid wondering why we don’t have stores in our own neighborhoods. Could the insults be coming from a real place? Should I be more like “them”? How? In my best Jane Eyre voice, :Dear Reader”,I tnink we all know the price you have to pay to be like “them”. Is that it? What is it, THEY are so desperate for us to forget? Or believe?

I’m just going to dedicate my time to looking into the matter. I am 44, grunge is back and I have no desire to return to anybody’s office (I feel I was promised a robot would take that job,  but only got a better search engine, which is basically what a search engine was supposed to be without the speed of 5G) and feel moved to start a movement of independent Black news and journalism. My motive is not profit, but power. Black people’s power. We cannot live as second class citizens everywhere, forever anywhere. This/That is ridiculous and unsustainable.

I think we, as African Americans, as Black people on or off the continent, need to draw collective cultural line, “We are not forgetting anything! and your “white genocide”, anti vaxx movement, anti health care, pro White birth rate obsession needs to remain in your group, amongst yourselves”. I do remember in elementary school learning about, “The North Star”, an independent newspaper Fredrick Douglas, started with information for slaves to escape slavery and abolishionist to be of service. Douglas was used in Northern politics as a novel speaker at their anti Slavery events. Douglass was born a slave, was now free, literate, well read and well spoken and had become quite the voice of consciousness and what the slave could become if allowed to be free. Douglass left the movement and got a lil radical, when it became clear, they didn’t want to abolish slavery, yesterday … they were working, they were thinking, they were reaching out to otherside, waiting for a response, writing strongly wordwd and passionate letters, meeting with people who were okay with slavery, in places Douglas couldn’t be, leaning in … to discuss a way to end alavery that was supported by slave masters and slave states. Parallel, baby, look at the parallel. What are these Democrats really doing. This is when you leave a bad relationship with all your shit still at they house. You don’t need it, you just need to get out.

So this is my start, my contribution my get out Black and Independent Black media, catering to the Black diaspora so no one forgets anything.”

I hope this content conveys a strong sense of unity and purpose. That it appropriately emphasizes the importance of remembering our history and creating a honest, unbrought and free space for Black narratives. The message is clear, assertive, and inspiring, promoting the idea of empowerment through independent media in our voice(s).

Thanks for stopping by. Please come again. I am looking for Black independent reporters from everywhere. Current Events, politics, the economy, technology, etc.

Let’s do this!

Jasmine B.