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Three years ago, on July 19, 2005, Army Private First Class LaVena Johnson was found dead in Balad, Iraq. Her body was found in a tent belonging to the private military contractor KBR. She had abrasions all over her body, a broken nose, a black eye, burned hands, loose teeth, acid burns on her genitals, [...]

I ran across this on Steve The Penguin today and thought I’d share.
http://stevethepenguin.blogspot.com/2008/07/its-funny-because-its-true.html
She found this from the blog You’re Welcome who posted the following.
http://www.erinjackson.net/blog/2008/07/14/maronzio-vance-is-my-hero/
Watch the youtube and you’ll find yourself nodding through so much of it.  8-)

As if you’re not already exhausted by the plethora of social networking sites in existence, here yet emerges another.  I like the premise so I thought I would share the link with you.  Thanks, aw, for sending me this website link.
http://www.blackinamerica.com/
Their front page states…
BlackInAmerica.com is an online social network for African American men, women, and [...]

The following was sent to me by aw in an email…  Read it and let me know what you think about Sophia’s perspective.  I believe this editorial was originally from the Washington Post, but it is not clear from the message.
Black.  Female.  Accomplished.  Attacked
By Sophia A. Nelson
Sunday, July 20, 2008; B01
There she is — no, [...]

You know I have a passion for America’s response and aftermath from Hurricane Katrina, and Lil Wayne strikes a chord with my caring soul in his song “Tie My Hands.” It features Robin Thicke, and I’ve got to hand it to Lil Wayne, he really pulled out all the stops on this album. [...]

Thanks aw for sending this my way…
Source: http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/531012/
Description
How much do white Americans think it ?costs? to be black in our society,
given the problems associated with racial bias and prejudice? The answer, it
appears, is not much. When white Americans were asked to imagine how much they
would have to be paid to live the rest of their lives [...]

This song is probably going to land in my all time favs. Maino, you done affrodite proud!
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GA2N42o0vc]

I’ve just set up a myspace page.  Find me and add me:
www.myspace.com/affroditesez
Of course, I’m still on facebook (see the about me section)

Ran across this blog today and thought it would be worth sharing with all of you natural hair junkies. There’s a few non-hair postings sprinkled throughout as well.
UrbanCurlz- http://urbancurlz.blogspot.com/

I ran into this post when reading Mela Fela’s blog post called “Air Obamas ?: ummmm Yes We Can” and can think of a oodles of people who would die for some sneakers like these.  To get them, or any other custom tennis shoes, check this guy Van20 out on myspace.
http://www.myspace.com/van20
Van20 has some serious skills [...]