You know when something is so funny because it’s rooted in truth? That was the SNL skit last night. The healthcare reform part was my favorite!

The President gives a speech directly to Americas students welcoming them back to school. He emphasizes their hope and potential but makes clear they will need to take responsibility for themselves and their education to reach that potential. September 8, 2009. (Public Domain)

Article I wrote for July 2009 edition of JENESIS magazine (www.jenesismagazine.com) about the AIDS epidemic in DC. I’m just cropping it down to fit this blog and placing it here in case you missed seeing it online. There’s been a lot of discussion about DC in particular over the past several months after learning that rate has been on the rise.

I began the sketches for what would ultimately become Obama 2012 in March 2007, a month after Barack Obama declared his candidacy. I had spent much of the previous 18 months living abroad as an entrepreneur and statesman of sorts, and I was slightly out of touch with the pulse of life on the street in the United States.

In an effort to reflect more of a diverse voice to Sunday morning talk shows centered around politics, Roland Martin has partnered with TV One to launch “Washington Watch.” The first episode will air on September 27, 2009 at 11:00am.

Obama on Leno- How do you think he did? (video)

I just finished watching Oprah and Jill Biden broke the truth that her husband Joe Biden had a choice of either being Vice President or Secretary of State.  Boy oh boy!  Joe looked over at “wifey” and she just didn’t get it, but Oprah, Joe, and Jill just went with the flow.  I love live [...]

I’m DC bound for the week and this song gets me every time.

I’m headed to DC.  No special tickets or invites (although I welcome them!), but I know I just want to be in DC to catch the spirit of this historic inauguration.  Not to worry, I will have my cameras and hopefully even get a hold of a video camera, too, so expect some reflections and [...]

That’s right. I think so many people have forgotten Martin Luther King’s actual birthday as we’ve moved holidays around here in the States over the years to fall nicely on the calendar. His actual birth date was January 15, 1929. He would have been 80 years old today. Kind of eery that Obama is making history almost in alignment with King’s 80th birthday

Can this man be any more cool?
Barack Obama writes a letter to his daughters Malia and Sasha as well as the children of America…
(source:  PARADE Magazine)
Dear Malia and Sasha,
I know that you’ve both had a lot of fun these last two years on the campaign trail, going to picnics and parades and state fairs, eating [...]

Commentary on Ron Clark and Ron Clark Academy sparked by recent donation of $365,000 from Oprah Winfrey.

…”The Green Ball: Inauguration of a New Green Economy” will be held Jan. 19 at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery in Washington.
A draft version of the invitation, obtained by The Washington Times, urges people to join Mr. Gore to “bring together a diverse coalition of environmentally-forward organizations, entrepreneurs, scientists and advocates, celebrating a commitment [...]

PRESS RELEASE
Hosted by Actress Gabrielle Union, “THE BET HONORS” Recognizes the Accomplishments of Tyler Perry, Mary J. Blige, Earvin “Magic” Johnson, B. Smith, Judith Jamison and Congressman James E. Clyburn Inaugural Ball to Support America’s Promise Alliance and Washington, D.C.’s Dunbar High School And the Duke Ellington School of the Arts

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These are a must have for my quirky doll collection!!!  I was over at djT.elle.is.kind.of.dope ’s blog reading about it and had to throw a post up here.
Here’s an excerpt from the eBay INsider blog…
posted October 27, 2008 – It has been a month in the making and it was so hard to keep it [...]