Darec McDaniel

08/03/2023

Just some of the awesome classes and incredible groups of people I've had the fortune to teach at Smiley's Academy of Martial Arts.

06/24/2023

So much respect to these men.
Posted • This is beautiful! This is the news that deserves to go viral! Your past never defines you, but your future does💪🏾 Y’all here for this?

Marcus Harvin, Alpha Jalloh, Evan Holmes, and more students graduated from their Yale x University of New Haven program this week. Great news to see!

04/02/2023

First Degree received from professor at

03/28/2023

It's difficult to describe how it feels getting this after waiting for two years, but I can say it's rewarding to be recognized by my peers and seniors. In even better news, Professor Tom DeBlass already agreed to come back next year to give me the second degree on time, regaining the time lost waiting to get the first. Feeling very fortunate to be a part of Tom DeBlass association and team member at

12/01/2022

Inventions that would not exist without Black Women!

11/12/2022

Posted • To those who served and loved the country that did not love them back.

Happy !

11/01/2022

10/27/2022

Posted • The Igbo Landing is a historic site at Dunbar Creek on St.
Simons Island, Glynn County, Georgia. It is the site of one of the largest mass su***des of enslaved people in history.
Historians say Igbo captives from modern-day Nigeria, purchased for an average of $100 each by slave merchants John Couper and Thomas Spalding, arrived in Savannah, Georgia, on the slave ship the Wanderer in 1803.
In May 1803, the Igbo and other West African captives arrived in Savannah, Georgia, on the slave ship the Wanderer. They were purchased for an average of $100 each by slave merchants John Couper and Thomas Spalding to be resold to plantations on nearby St. Simons Island. The chained slaves were packed under deck of a coastal vessel, the York, which would take them to St. Simons. During the voyage, approximately 75 Igbo slaves rose in rebellion, took control of the ship, drowned their captors, and in the process caused the grounding of the ship in Dunbar Creek.
The sequence of events that occurred next remains unclear. It is known only that the Igbo marched ashore, singing, led by their high chief. Then at his direction, they walked into the marshy waters of Dunbar Creek, committing mass su***de.
Roswell King, a white overseer on the nearby Pierce Butler plantation, wrote the first account of the incident. He and another man identified only as Captain Patterson recovered many of the drowned bodies. Apparently only a subset of the
75 Igbo rebels drowned. Thirteen bodies were recovered, but others remained missing, and some may have survived the su***de episode, making the actual numbers of deaths uncertain.
Regardless of the numbers, the deaths signaled a powerful storv of resistance as these captives overwhelmed their captors in a strange land, and many took their own lives rather than remain enslaved in the New World. The Igbo Landing graduallv took on enormous svmbolic importance in local African American folklore. The mutiny and subsequent su***de by the lgbo people was called by many locals the first freedom march in the history of the United States.

09/14/2022

Damn liberals.

08/23/2022

Posted • 33 years ago on this day in 1989, revolutionary leader and co-founder of the Black Panther Party Huey P. Newton was shot and killed in the streets of Oakland, California

On August 22, 1989, co-founder of the Black Panther Party For Self Defense (BPP) Huey P. Newton was murdered. Newton was fatally shot on Center Street in the Lower Bottoms neighborhood of West Oakland by a 24-year-old Black Guerrilla Family member. His last words to his killer before being shot twice in the head were,

You can kill my body, and you can take my life, but you can never kill my soul. My soul will live forever!”

Newton’s killer, Tyrone Robinson, was convicted of the murder in 1991 and sentenced to up to 32 years to life in prison.

Born in born in Monroe, Louisiana February 17, 1942, Huey Newton attended the University of California, Santa Cruz and studied law attaining his Bachelor’s Degree and PhD. While Newton attended Merritt College in California, Newton and his comrade, Chairman Bobby Seale, organized the Black Panther Party for Self Defense in October 1966 with Huey as Minister of Defense. The BPP achieved national and international recognition through their active role in the Black Liberation Movement and in politics dealing with race relations of the 1960s and 1970s. The Party’s political agenda included better housing, better jobs, and proper education for all Black people, which was all documented in their Ten-Point Program.

In the years leading up to Newton’s death, the BPP was under heavy ridicule from the powers that be and classified as a hate group. In time the BPP was dismantled as it’s leaders were either killed, imprisoned or addicted to drugs. Still even today the works an ideas of the prolific leader Huey P. Newton live on and “will live forever”...