Over the weekend, I was watching Don Lemmon on CNN talk on several occasions about the new dress code at Morehouse College. If you aren’t aware, Morehouse is an all male Historically Black College and University (HBCU) and considered to be an elite institution for black men. While there are 11 points addressed on the policy, the one about not wearing women’s attire is gaining the most attention.
I’m so sad for Derrion Albert and all the Derrion Alberts out there across America whose story didn’t make headlines. Absolutely barbaric behavior. The violence MUST stop!!!
Wish I could feel sorry for Chris Brown….BUT I DON’T!!! I have some work for him outside my house. Send him to Ohio, and I’ll make sure he gets some work done.
I often wonder had she not broken the world record if people would have been as concerned? I also wonder if they do this testosterone testing all the time on athletes because there’s no doubt in my mind that Caster Semenya is alone. Then of course there’s the issue of race which South African leaders have pointed to from the very beginning claiming that they’re going after her because she doesn’t fit the European standard of beauty.
How absolutely devastating. Just days before Yale doctoral student Annie Le was supposed to enjoy one of the biggest moments of her life, she disappears somewhere in the building of her lab of all places. Now the news is reporting that a body has been found but not officially naming it as Annie Le’s pending formal identification (I dread ever having to be called to identify the dead body of a loved one).
Rashad Johnson was shot outside an Atlanta area nightclub at a Halloween party by Joshua Norris. Both were students at Morehouse College. Joshua Norris got a sweet plea deal and college degree while victim transfers back to college at home in California.
News and opinion on Nadya Suleman’s birth of octuplets on Jan 26, 2009
CNN.com’s Sr Producer, Wayne Drash, shares a part of history and his story as he opens up about how his great grandfather hired James “Little Man” Presley at the age of 5, following the death of his (James’s) father, to work the family’s cotton fields. After 72 years of picking …
A few weeks ago, I learned that one of my male employees was making unwanted advances at a young lady in another department. Among her claims was that he was stalking her after work
I’m stealing the below content from one of my other blogs as I realize that I’m collecting so many stories about the challenges we face at work to speak up on behalf of your identity/affinity groups or from the perspective of keeping others from speaking out offensively and blindly in …
I have long struggled with Thanksgiving in the same way that I struggle with the 4th of July. As an African-American who has ancestry in Africa and the original Americans who were here when Columbus “discovered” America…among so many other cultures that are just a part of the story of being an African American, I find that once I know the truth, it’s simply hard to find something festive in this holiday. As such, from year to year, I just do whatever. Sometimes with family and sometimes without. A vivid memory is one of the other conscious black buddies of mine back at Morgan State handing out fliers on campus with the title “Thanks-Taking” with a wanted photo on it.
Before, I get on my high horse, let me dismount and tell you that D’Angelo’s “Untitled” video was THE hottest man sexy video ever. It could make a lesbian think twice and send a nun to a confessional. I’m not the touch myself type, but who wouldn’t with 3 minutes …
After receiving some very sad news yesterday that someone very close to me lost his job at The Washington Times, I had a Willy Loman, from the novel Death of a Salesman, moment. What happens when everything you believed crumbles around you? Here’s a hard working black man, not in …
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, …
I never grew up knowing of or even celebrating Juneteenth. That was something I came to know about in college. As I grew more conscious in my high school and college years, I felt less and less compelled to join in 4th of July festivities. It’s one of those things …
