Black Love: Timeless Classic or Relic of the Past? |
Valentines Day is this Saturday. The stores are filled with all that mushy, played out red paraphernalia. For those who like all that stuff fine. We all cant like the same things. Personally, I pref...
Posted by on Thu, 12 Feb 2009 21:54:00 GMT |
Good-bye Twenties: Clever Gets Personal |
I have about an hour and a half left before I turn 30. 90 minutes before I say good-bye to a decade. The end of being a twenty something is basically here. Now dont get me wrong. That is a good thing...
Posted by on Tue, 10 Feb 2009 21:58:00 GMT |
ACCURATELY REMEMBERING DR. KING |
How many times have we as a people complained that we no longer have any good leaders? So often we proclaimed our problem was that we didn't have a modern day Martin Luther King Jr. We didn't have a g...
Posted by on Wed, 14 Jan 2009 08:14:00 GMT |
Child Support Woes |
Ray Charles sang "Child support. Alimony. She's eating steak. I'm eating bologna." He lamented about the woes of having to pay up to an ex. He's making the money and she's taking the money.
M...
Posted by on Mon, 22 Dec 2008 07:59:00 GMT |
Waking Up to a Black President |
As we sit here on the cusp of history in the making many thoughts are running through our minds. Emotions are running high. Hope is springing eternal. Everybody is on edge. We want this brother to wi...
Posted by on Wed, 05 Nov 2008 04:43:00 GMT |
Finally Speaking on Barack Obama |
Throughout the primaries I didn't move my pen much on how I felt about Barack Obama. I was very excited in the beginning. I defended him with my mouth when the media attacked him and his family but I ...
Posted by on Sun, 07 Sep 2008 23:14:00 GMT |
Do Men Really Expect Women to Have Top Model/Video Vixen Figures? |
Inspired by T.W.
Ok, I love to talk. I absolutely love to engage people in conversation. Regardless of race, gender, culture or age it's not uncommon for me to have people sharing with me their...
Posted by on Sat, 05 Jul 2008 22:29:00 GMT |
HOW LONG WILL WE CONTINUE to ALLOW WILLIE to LYNCH US? |
As I have grown older my perspective on the condition of Black people in America has shifted. Believe it or not I was race conscious as a first grader. No, I really was and there was a lot of resentme...
Posted by on Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:15:00 GMT |
STATE of EMERGENCY! Does America value Black life |
I recall being overcome with emotions as I would pass cotton fields in Alabama as I drove to school. I recall thinking of how many of my ancestors toiled that same blood stained land hundreds of ...
Posted by on Sat, 26 Apr 2008 19:18:00 GMT |
Have We Lost Our Little Girls? |
There was an alarming article written in the Virginian Pilot last month titled "STD Study Hits Home With Teen Girls in Hampton Roads." The article was filled with jarring and disheartening statistics....
Posted by on Sat, 12 Apr 2008 17:35:00 GMT |
