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From Death Panels to Individual Liberty: The Affordable Care Act
If you are like me and want to know more about the Affordable Care Act be prepared to wade through the murky waters of fact versus fiction. Moreover, much if not all of what is heard about the Affordable Care Act has been the GOP’s advertisements and slander of the law, which as far as content is concerned amounts to noise. […]
What's Up With Kwanzaa?
Hope everyone’s Christmas was complete with family and happiness. If you thought that such a spirit lives for a few moments in December, you are indeed wrong and perhaps exhausted. There follows more family time and appreciation for any Black souls that share, also, a need for little historical significance in their life. Today is […]
The Politics of the Butt: Nicki Minaj Got a Big Ole Butt and so Do I
Take the average black man and ask him that She gotta pack much back So, fellas! (Yeah!) Fellas! (Yeah!) Has your girlfriend got the butt? (Hell yeah!) Tell ’em to shake it! (Shake it!) Shake it! (Shake it!) Shake that healthy butt! Baby got back! Yes, Nikki Minaj has a round derriere and so do […]
Georgia Prison Strike & Why We Need Our Own Media

Did you know one of the largest prison protests in US history took place last week? If you said no that’s not surprising considering it was not covered by corporate funded mainstream media. The word got out through conscious bloggers like Davey D, effective uses of social media like Twitter and Facebook and by the hard work and efforts of some a the few independent and unafraid media outlets we have left.

According to the Final Call Newspaper (the last standing black owned weekly international newspaper),

“Fed up with bad food, unjust treatment, poor education and inadequate health care, thousands of inmates in Georgia’s prison system staged “Lockdown for Liberty,” a peaceful protest on Dec. 9, according to activists”
Amazing Glazes and Censored 11
I have never been one to shy away from conversations about race, stereotypes and the like. I look at each as a teaching moment. Not that I feel the need to explain anything about my race or culture to anyone but I am a firm believer in the idea that racism and prejudice stem from […]
The New Nigger
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iau-e6HfOg0&feature=related Good day niggaz, the non black niggaz that is. Though many black leaders push for the burial of the term, they have not done so on behalf of the other colonized races. A Black multi-cultural person will soon confront the taboo as a minority among members of another culture. This was the case for […]
The Knowledge of Resources & a Series of Too Many Questions
Last week a black male college student told me that he wasn’t going to study abroad due to monetary issues. I flipped. Sometimes I feel that individuals create barriers for themselves, ones that in reality don’t even exist. Barriers that are only solidified because of a lack of information flow aka not knowing. So my […]
All I Want for Christmas — Celebrity Edition
Lately, I’ve been getting mail I’m pretty sure isn’t mine. Still, I thought I’d share it. Tis the season. Dearest Santa, How are you? Hopefully absolutely phabulous–just like me. I hope you have had a wonderful and restful year. I’m sure you are prepared for yet another phantastic holiday season. I know I am. I […]
For Colored Families, Domestic Violence, and South African Ads
Its better late than never right? Some would prefer the “never” option when it comes to viewing the recently released Tyler Perry Movie For Colored Girls. I am aware of the stigmatizing views that Perry has placed on women in a plethora of his movies. Painting a view of black females that is a bit […]
For-Profit Schools See “Subprime-Opportunity”
For-Profit Schools See “Subprime-Opportunity” Julianne Hing, Colorlines, November 29, 2010 A new report out from the liberal education policy group EducationTrust says that the arc of the for-profit schools industry, and the disproportionate impact its had on the poor and people of color, mirrors another financial debacle that the country should be in no rush […]
November 1, 2010 – November 7, 2010
African-American community mobilizing to defuse youth violence Huey Freeman , Herald Review News, November 7, 2010 Student violence: A manifestation of general political culture Staff Writer, Daily Mirror, November 6, 2010 Organizer says Democratic Party didn’t reach out to minority youth Eugene Kane, Journal Sentinel News, November 6, 2010 Is your child a victim of […]
Proficiency of Black Students Is Found to Be Far Lower Than Expected
Proficiency of Black Students Is Found to Be Far Lower Than Expected Trip Gabriel, New York Times | November 9, 2010 An achievement gap separating black from white students has long been documented — a social divide extremely vexing to policy makers and the target of one blast of school reform after another. But a new […]