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March Madness: The Fab Five
Last night I caught ESPN’s 30 for 30 installment, The Fab Five. The documentary chronicles the two years the University of Michigan men’s basketball team captured the imagination–and ire–of the sports watching public. I was a young kid when Jalen Rose, Jimmy King, Juwan Howard, Ray Jackson, and Chris Webber revolutionized college basketball and rocked […]
Monitoring the District's troubled youth
Monitoring the District’s troubled youth Theresa Vargas, Washington Post | March 5, 2011 Joseph Mitchell parallel parks his Ford Explorer in the Huntwood area of Northeast Washington, leaving enough room to pull out quickly – “a little safety thing I do,” he says – and walks under a night sky toward an apartment building hidden […]
The Joke IS Black People
Dedicated to Gopher! I support you ma. Nothing spikes my blood pressure quicker than non-Black people that change their demeanor around Black people. It occurs mostly between womyn; non-Blacks add “u’s” to “girl”, perform the two snaps and around gesture, push their lips out to say “boo boo!”—the list goes on. A little imitation of […]
Some of My Best Friends Give CPAC Speeches

The interesting thing about the GOP to me is they seem to have this attitude that if they don’t acknowledge it, then it’s simply not true. It’s a great strategy on the surface, but inevitably it always leaves them looking extremely insincere. At this years Conservative Political Action Conference or CPAC they had a “Black” man Allen West, Republican Congressman from Florida, as the keynote speaker. To them it meant that conservatives aren’t racist, no matter how low their attacks on President Obama go (Communist, Illegal Alien, Muslim, N-Word), because one of their best friends, Allen West, gave the keynote.
This "Angry White Dude" Isn't That Smart
The funniest thing to me about the Tea Party’s response to my video,”What if the Tea Party was Black?“, is their insistent claim that the tea party isn’t racist, while at the same time making blatantly racist comments about me or black people in general. Case in point, some blogger calling himself “Angry White Dude” […]
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 Emerging Minds Project
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dbH7a4Nso8 Last night I had a provoking conversation with a recent college graduate in Chicago. The conversation was based on our lives and mostly our differences in opinions when it comes to politics, economics, and most importantly social issues. While I am always excited about and welcome dissenting thoughts, by the end of this conversation […]
The Top Ten Real Worst Moments of the Bush Presidency
I know, the only thing more ludicrous than Bush saying Kanye West calling him a racist was the worst moment of his presidency was that Kanye actually apologized! And I know that 2 years can seem like a long time but I think Dubya might have forgotten a few horrible moments, thankfully I haven’t. So I now present The Top Ten Real Worst Moments of the Bush Presidency:
Tyler Perry's Premiere: Another For “Real” Colored Girl’s Story
Today is the nationwide premiere of Tyler Perry’s For Colored Girls. Given the current reviews, I think we as black women who embody and tell black girls’ stories should prepare ourselves and our beloved ones for the emotional, physical, and spiritual consequences of Tyler Perry’s movie. Meaning, we should find constructive ways both online and […]
The New Southern Strategy
If the Southern segregationists had to assemble an ideal 4 X 100 meter relay team they would probably be unstoppable. Senator Trent Lott would be the first leg. Since he believes that all the problems in the United States could’ve been avoided had Strom Thurmond been elected President in 1948, he will get a fast […]
Abandoned by his family and left homeless and alone, Orayne Williams earns college scholarship
Abandoned by his family and left homeless and alone, Orayne Williams earns college scholarship Ben Chapman, New York Daily News, June 15, 2010 In less than two weeks, some 50,000 city high school seniors will graduate. Few of them will have overcome as many obstacles as Orayne Williams. Abandoned by his family and living alone […]
April 12, 2010 – April 18, 2010
Closing the Educational Divide Matthew Mcgowan, Avalanche-Journal, April 18, 2010 Troubled youths succeed, alcohol awareness, Milton High goes back to the ’80s Carmen Paige, Pensacola News Journal, April 17, 2010 Kansas Wildscape Hires New Youth Programs Coordinator Staff Writer, Kansas City InfoZine, April 17, 2010 Anti-violence group’s work on hold Justin Fenton, The Baltimore Sun, […]