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01/13/2025

The little things count. ❤️‍🩹💪🏾🙏🏾💬

01/13/2025

Few people realize how much we do for Black America.

Akiim DeShay – Owner, Research, Analysis, and Data Visualization
CONTACT: [email protected]

Stan Fulfiller Byndom – Strategy, Marketing, and Business/Community Engagement

CONTACT:
[email protected]
(573) 424-6323

BlackDemographics.com was created in 2007 to be the top resource for information regarding African Americans.

It was meant to be a one stop unbiased site that showcases only the facts where people can see what Black America looks like without having to spend hours searching the Internet.

For 10 years Black Demographics has worked hard to become a trusted resource. This is why it has consistently remained a top source for major news media, universities, governments, academics, books, blogs, and individuals. Basically it serves all of who seek Information, statistics, and reliable insight about the African American population.

As a company our expanded focus is to significantly increase the amount of data we research, illustrate, and customize to better provide for the needs of all businesses, governments, media outlets, organizations, and individuals whose interest is to serve, discuss ideas, and benefit the African American community

Comment from Obama White House:

“My name is Michael Blake, and I direct African American outreach for President Obama. This is a very impressive and thorough website. …”
Michael Blake, White House Office of Public Engagement (2011)

Media

Blackdemographics.com has been used as a reference in articles by major media outlets such as:

Forbes, FactCheck.org, Wikipedia, The Washington Post, CNN.com (US Edition), BBC News, Huffington Post, Al Jazeera English, NPR, Vox, and more.

Major Black media outlets like, The Grio, BET News, Ebony.com, Madame Noire, Atlanta Black Star, News One, The Root, Your Black World, Black Enterprise Magazine, Clutch magazine, UPTOWN Magazine and more.

Even referenced by both far-right and far-left political outlets such as Newsmax, RawStory, Breitbart.com, LifeZette, and BuzzFeed.
University Libraries

BlackDemographics.com is listed as a study and research reference on the websites of major university libraries including

Princeton University Library
University of Southern California
Florida State University Libraries
North Carolina Central University – James E. Shepard Memorial Library
Middle Tennessee State University James E. Walker Library

Journals who have published papers that reference BlackDemographics.com

Berkeley Journal of Criminal Law
Maurer School of Law: Indiana University Digital Repository
The International Journal of Justice and Sustainability Publication

Governments who have referenced BlackDemographics.com for reports and studies

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services-National Institute of Health
Washington State Board of Education
Kentucky Historical Society
Indiana Commission on the Status of Black Males
Los Angeles County Quality and Productivity Commission

Non-Profits who have referenced BlackDemographics.com

Brooking Institution
The Earl Carl Institute for Legal and Social Policy, Inc
Mississippi Urban Research Center,
American Occupational Therapy Association, Inc.
National Black Occupational Therapy Caucus,
National Healthy Marriage Resource Center
Student African American Brotherhood

Books: more than 30 books have referenced BlackDemographics.com including:

Missouri’s Young Adult Black Males: An Endangered People
Transcultural Marketing: Building Customer Relationships in Multicultural America
Generation B:: Black America’s Reset to Success
World Regional Geography: Global Patterns, Local Lives
Contemporary Marketing
Sociology in Our Times: The Essentials
The Protection of Vulnerable Groups under International Human Rights Law
Why States Matter: An Introduction to State Politics
Counseling the Culturally Diverse: Theory and Practice
President Trump, Inc.: How Big Business and Neoliberalism Empower Populism and the Far-right
Race Still Matters: The Reality of African American Lives and the Myth of Postracial Society
Network Marketing Perfect Niche: Baby Boomers: How to Recruit Boomers Into Your Multi-Level Business
Maintaining Black Marriage: Individual, Interpersonal, and Contextual Dynamics

01/13/2025

Abolitionist branded a “Slave Stealer”

On January 12th from 1845, we recall the Branding of a Slave Stealer, Massachusetts’s sea captain, Jonathan Walker.

Jonathan Walker, a white man born in 1790, was arrested in 1844 for trying to carry slaves who were members of his church to freedom in the Bahamas.

He was apprehended off the coast of Florida. He was jailed for more than a year and branded with the letters “S.S.” for Slave Stealer.

The abolitionist poet John Greenleaf Whittier immortalized Walker's deed in this often reprinted verse: “Then lift that manly right hand, bold ploughman of the wave!

Its branded palm shall prophesy, ‘Salvation to the Slave!’”

Reference:
The World Book Encyclopedia.
Copyright 1996, World Book, Inc.
ISBN 0-7166-0096-X

01/12/2025

Free The Nation.

President Biden believes no one should be jailed just for using or possessing ma*****na. To help remedy our nation’s failed approach to ma*****na, President Biden pardoned federal and D.C. simple ma*****na possession offenses. President Biden also called on governors to issue similar pardons for state offenses. And, President Biden requested that the Department of Justice and Department of Health and Human Services review how ma*****na is scheduled under federal law.

In May 2024, the Department of Justice and Department of Health and Human Services began the process to reschedule ma*****na from a Schedule I to a Schedule III drug under federal law. Following the President’s lead, governors in Maryland, Massachusetts, and Oregon also issued pardons for some ma*****na state offenses.

Far too many lives have been upended because of our nation’s failed approach to ma*****na. President Biden took action to right those historic wrongs.

01/12/2025

Angela Bassett can now add Ph.D to her name ✊🏾🙏🏾

The actress earned her B.A. degree in African-American studies in 1980 and in 1983, she earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Yale School of Drama, Angela Bassett can now add Ph.D to her name after recently receiving an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from Yale.

01/12/2025

“During a mathematics course at Columbia University, a student fell asleep and woke up to the sound of his classmates talking.

As the lesson ended, he noticed the lecturer had written two problems on the whiteboard.

He assumed these were homework assignments, so he copied them into his notepad to tackle later.
When he first attempted the problems, he found them quite difficult.

However, he persevered, spending hours in the library gathering references and studying until he was able to solve one of the problems, though it was challenging.

To his surprise, the lecturer didn’t ask about the homework in the next class.

Curious, the student stood up and asked, "Doctor, why didn’t you ask about the assignment from the previous lecture?"

The lecturer replied, "Required? It wasn’t mandatory.

I was simply presenting examples of mathematical problems that science and scientists had not yet solved."

Shocked, the student responded, "But I solved one of them in four papers!"

The solution he discovered was eventually credited to him and documented at Columbia University.

The four papers he wrote on the issue are still on display at the institution.

The key reason the student was able to solve the problem was that he didn’t hear the lecturer say, "No one has found a solution."

Instead, he believed it was a problem worth solving and approached it without frustration, ultimately succeeding.

This story serves as a reminder: don't listen to those who tell you that you can't achieve something, as many young people today are surrounded by negativity and doubt.

Some people intentionally plant seeds of failure and frustration.

You have the power to achieve your goals, overcome obstacles, and fulfill your aspirations. Simply trust in God and keep trying.”

01/11/2025

The Justice Department provided new insight and chilling details about the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, describing the two-day raid that killed 300 Black residents and destroyed their businesses as a "coordinated, military-style attack" conducted by a white mob of over 10,000 people.

The DOJ released a 126-page report Friday following a four-month investigation into the attacks, which took place between May 31 and June 1 in 1921. In addition to the murders and property destruction, victims' money and personal property were stolen, and they were not provided with any aid.

The Justice Department released an extensive report looking into one of the most destructive racial massacres in U.S. history.

01/11/2025

I helped like 5 people get unstuck today.

A 19-person snowplow crew from the City of Columbia Public Works department will report at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 9, to address anticipated winter weather.

01/11/2025

01/11/2025

Banana 🍌 Pudding.

01/11/2025

I mean this. For us both.

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01/11/2025

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Me appearing out of thin air when the people that don’t like me say my name 😒

01/11/2025

Big shout out to my newest top fans! 💎

Sanghyun Kim, Dione Auld, Barbara Yap

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