Sharing news on mardi gras 2009 celebrations in New Orleans

Link to feature on Ife author of blogs affrodite.net and ifelicious.com. A rare moment where blog worlds collide for 20 questions.

Announcing movie adaptation of E. R. Frank’s “America” to air on Lifetime network

I’ve been under the weather, but I wanted to at least throw a quick post up to make all of us smile. 
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COUPLE SETS RECORD FOR MARITAL LONGEVITY
What a blessing!  Congrats to Herbert and Zelmyra Fisher.  84 years of marriage.
Newbern (North Carolina) News Journal article on the couple [...]

I heard this on CNN yesterday and couldn’t believe my ears.  These stories keep coming out of every crevice of the American economy.  Charles Darwin taught us about survival of the fittest nearly 200 years ago and American businesses still haven’t caught on to this evolutionary premise.
Aye yi yi!

From the Washington Times
POSTMASTER GOT $800,000 IN [...]

Commentary on Marlon Jackson of Jackson 5 plan to build 5 star resort in Nigeria combining Jackson memorabilia, golf, and slave tourism.

Commentary on article from MSNBC about the recession’s impact on HBCUs.

Love Your Curls Contest entry from Nina in Burlington, NJ

Love Your Curls Contest entry from Fallon in Columbus, Ohio

Pan African Film and Arts Festival 2009 featured South African film directed by Anthony Fabian called “SKIN” starring Sophie Okonedo about genetic abnormality that caused a woman born of white parents in apartheid South Africa, to look like a black person.

Continental flight 3407 from Newark, NJ to Buffalo, NY crashes on Thursday, February 12 just 6 miles before reaching the airport. 49 total perish.

February 11, 2009 press release for today’s events at the Pan African Film and Arts Festival

Announcing Pan African Film and Arts Festival February 5-16, 2009 in Los Angeles

News and opinion on Nadya Suleman’s birth of octuplets on Jan 26, 2009

YYP and Peter J. Harris tour of In Love We Trust with all black celebrity cast performances of The Vagina Monologues and newly added male perspective The Johnson Chronicles.