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http://www.iviewtube.com/videos/89320/16-year-old-derrion-albert-beaten-to-death-in-chicago Derrion Albert’s murder was something like a blood sport event. As you watch in this clip, you can hear the man and woman, the camera crew, filming with their phone.  Starting at 36 seconds, the man says “Let me see that shawty,” to which the female responds presumably as she hands over the phone, […]

Democracy Behind Bars Anthony Thompson, The New York Times, August 6, 2009 Gains on Tests Don’t Silence School Critics Elissa Gootman and Robert Gebeloff, The New York Times, August 4, 2009 Most Black Youths are Sitting out Baseball Gregory Lewis, South Florida Sun-Sentinel, August 4, 2009

Rap Lyrics Shouldn’t Add to Rap Sheet Frank Cerabino, Palm Beach Post, August 2, 2009 ’Booty Shorts’ and ‘Sagging.’ James E. Causey, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, August 1, 2009 Workshop Seeks to Lift up Young Black Men Deidre Williams, The Buffalo News, July 31, 2009

Affirmative Action is Just a Distraction Shelby Steele, The Washington Post, July 26, 2009 Conference to Address Black Women and HIV/AIDS Erin Allday, San Francisco Chronicle, July 25, 2009 HIV/AIDS Still a Scourge for African-Americans Angela Hill, The Oakland Tribune, July 25, 2009 Maryland First in Black Lifers Brendan Kearney, The Daily Record, July 23, […]

Crofton Killing Prompts Race Discussion Shantee Woodards, The Capital, June 14, 2009 “A Pebble Tossed in the Pond, and the Rings are Still Going Out.” In 1986, Amid Rising Violence, Denver Police Complied a List of 69 Names.  They Were Mostly African-American Teens, Lived Near East 28th Avenue and Williams Street and Were Believed to […]

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbejJ8DJd4A&feature=fvw In 2004, humiliation, pain and torture were inflected on an Afghan grain merchant named Mohammed Shah Poor. The torturer was Sheikh Issa Al Nahyan, one of the 22 royal Sheikhs of the United Arab Emirate (U.A.E). At this point in the clip, I hope you have realized that Sheikh Issa’s accomplices are police officers. Moreover, I believe […]

Last week we all had the opportunity to watch Barack Obama’s healthcare speech. A couple of weeks ago I asked, where is Obama’s Political Saavy? And in the above speech I believe not only did he find it, but he remembered what the people who voted him into office [overwhelmingly] mandated. So needless to say […]

It was the news heard around the world, heard in every black café, posted on every Facebook mini feed, screamed in abject horror in every black theater class, whispered in body stealing tones in every black feminist mind that Tyler Perry also known as Medea also known as He Who Has Oprah’s Seal of Approval […]

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j30aP2sg2ms   In the above clip, we discover that in 2000 roughly 95, 000 black women were married to white men.  By 2006, the numbers had grown to 117,000 black women are married to white men.  Anchor person Mara Schiavocampo of NBC poses the following:  “One reason for the increase in interracial relationships may simply […]

I am lucky, or at the least very fortunate that in my life I have been on both sides of the “fence” or in this case all three sides of the fence. I have lived in suburban, urban, and rural areas. I have lived in very nice areas of the country (Diamond Bar in LA […]

A couple of months ago a good friend of mine asked me to accompany her to America’s Next Top Model auditions here in chicago….

This week, I am going to feature a blog I wrote for Document the Silence which is a website I co-founded dedicated to ending violence against women of color. Right now, we are in the midst of mounting a national online media campaign to document how domestic violence and the family court system work in […]