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What's Up With Kwanzaa? Part 2
Greetings Black people, if you have been celebrating Kwanzaa for the first time I hope that it has been a good experience. If not and you are still considering, there are three days left. I left you earlier in the week with some ways to observe the Nguzu Saba, the seven principles of Kwanzaa. This […]
A New Year – A Purposeful Life – A Lesson of Sacrifice
I want to live a life of service. I saw him through the bars of a Birmingham jail. He was sitting on the hard and less than comfortable cotton bed, in a room the size of a small Hyde Park apartment bathroom. His fingers were intertwined as his chin rested on the connection of his [...]
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. […]
No New Years Resolutions
Every year millions of people reflect on all the poor choices they made in the previous 365 days and vow never to repeat them again. In some cases, the old habits are completely erased, but for most folks the efforts are as futile as Lindsey Lohan staying out of trouble. I’ve never been a fan […]
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 […]
December 13, 2010 – December 19, 2010
Science shows no link between games and violence Karen Sternheimer & Michael D. Gallagher, December 19, 2010 Youth festival marred by violence Staff Writer, IOL News, December 19, 2010 Youth portal ends on high note Frederica Elbourne, Fiji Times, December 19, 2010 Crowd prays for an end to violence after Flint breaks homicide record Beata Mostafavi, Flint Journal, […]
Please Ask, Do Tell: Part 2
For far too long have people been forced into silence, a silence that neither yields equality or freedom. This is the silence that conjures depression, subjugation, and ostracization. A creed that keeps people quiet in the name of sustaining what traditionalist preach to be “proper.” This silence is what keeps men on the DL, women […]
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”
Ask, Tell
I opened my eyes and abandoned my nihilist reveries to learn that Christmas came early for many members of the LGBT community. Last weekend, the Senate repealed “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell,” a policy that banned gays and lesbians from openly serving in the Armed Forces. Established in 1993, DADT was a compromise by President Clinton, […]
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Antoine Dodson's Bed Intruder Song Popularity is so Wrong
So, the bed intruder video is the most popular YouTube video of 2010. To say the least, I am bothered by this because it shows how insensitive we are about violence against poor black women. Yeah, this is not a long blog, but I just want to go on record for saying this is problematic […]