Bringing awareness to the Black community, April 2008 is Sexual Assault Awareness Month.

Herschel Walker has been in the press quite a bit lately in light of his new book, “Breaking Free”, and disclosing the fact that he has dissociative identity disorder (AKA multiple personality disorder). I’m attaching the NY Times article about him which includes that his announcement has been greeted with both praise and ridicule.
What [...]

One of my college alum friends co-owns A II Z Naturals in Cleveland, OH. It is a natural hair care salon. I posted a link to the salon site on my Black Stylists and Barbers page, but if you’re too lazy, you can click here: http://www.aiiznaturals.com/.
Here are the products used at the [...]

Poor Obama can’t catch a break anywhere…That’s what you get when you try to break into the largest old boys network…The White House. Take your licks like a good boy and hope that Black America won’t hang you on a cross like Jesus after all is said and done…Meanwhile, tell Hillary all that glitters [...]

I caught a glimpse of the last couple of seconds of the Miss USA pageant last night. Just enough to see the winner was black and catch moment where she does the pageant shocked face look.
Crystle Stewart (another “negrotization” of a name…lovin’ it!), I extend my congratulations and hope you find a cure for [...]

I was tipped off to this documentary from reading Aunt Jemima’s Revenge blog. I’m posting this as an fyi for those who’d like to catch it while it’s airing on HBO. I enjoy documentaries, and this one looks powerful. I’ll post again once I get myself to see it (looks like one [...]

I ran into this site tonight and think I might keep this one in rotation. I’m going to give it a few weeks and update this post with my verdict. In the meantime, check it out and let me know what you think.
http://actingwhite.blogspot.com/

Stingy mofoes! Just kiddin’. As I get a kick out of catching up with my old college buddies online this past week, I got back to thinking when was the last time I sent a check to Morgan State? If you went to an HBCU, when was the last [...]

I ran across this on The Black Informant’s website.
Ancestry.co.uk has posted 3 million names of slaves held across the British Empire in the early 19th century, putting hundreds of thousands of pages of searchable information online to help slaves’ descendants research their past…
read the rest of this post here.

Do you think this is fair? Everyone on the 4×400 and 4×100 relay teams were stripped of their Olympic gold and bronze medals won in 2000.  I have to say Marion Jones just broke my heart when I heard her admission to steroids use last year after all that speculation.  She pulled a [...]

One of my sisters forwarded this to me and I thought I’d post it.  Spike doesn’t break it down to anything super deep, but I playfully like his rationale.  If I were him, that’s all the logic I’d need.
…btw, I officially turned “black” after seeing  Do The Right Thing during the summer of 1989 (I’m [...]

The King of Love is Dead as Nina Simone called it in her song written after learning about MLK’s death.
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Let’s go full circle here…
Nov 23, 1963 interview with MLK regarding the death of John F. Kennedy
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April 3, 1968 MLK speaks to city workers in Memphis, giving his famous (and my favorite) Mountaintop speech, less [...]

Last night, a co-worker invited me to see Katt Williams at Veterans Memorial in Columbus.  I obliged since it’s essentially the weekend for me and excited to get out of the house for the eve.  Whoo chile!  The crowd itself could rival Katt in terms of entertainment.  I was excited and shocked to have my [...]