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I think the recanting of old tales of how people like Harriet Tubman narrowly escaped the clutches of bounty hunters are beginning to loose its value to much of this emerging black generation (18-24). What is even sadder is that unless there is a movie about black historical events staring Denzel or Foxx, black history has become a fading subject. This is not a call to make black history more "hip", ...More

Since 1987, the San Diego chapter of The Links Inc. – an international, historically African-American women's group dedicated to improving conditions for blacks through community outreach – have given Achiever awards to deserving young men. The 18 seniors honored yesterday at the Sheraton San Diego Harbor & Marina received college scholarships ranging from $800 to $2,500, organizers said. And each was given a laptop computer for his efforts. ...It's partly about encouraging ...More

A very interesting read!! -------------- In many instances, free black slave owners shared a similar view of slavery with their white counterparts. Slave owners of both races occasionally manumitted a trusted servant and in the same moment requested the sale of another slave. The act of freeing one or several slaves while others remained in bondage did not constitute a firm commitment against slavery, but a personal view which acknowledged that some ...More

Pictured above: NOMAD Jukebox Zen Xtra Digital music has certainly come a long way since the early days. I can remember the first day I downloaded my first mp3 file from mp3.com VIA DIAL-UP!!! About an hour later, I had downloaded my first song and I was hooked!! Burning my own customized CDs was OK at first, but when you have kids they quickly become the toy of choice around the house. ...More

Probably my favorite type of music I enjoy listening to is Jazz and Smooth Jazz. Give me a nice warm summer evening with an open sunroof and a peach smoothie in my hand (sounds corny, but oh well this is my fantasy :) ) and I am just set. I happened to recently come across an artist that surprisingly has never caught my attention until now. Marcus Johnson, ...More

For you health nuts out there, you can replace the traditional beef you get out of most grocery stores with free range buffalo Beef as it has less fat then your more traditional beef. Before you say "eeeeeew!", let me tell you that my family and I do eat Buffalo at least once to twice a month. To us, it taste just like your traditional beef (with the same ...More

Earlier I expressed how tired I get from time to time when I read just about any news out there pertaining to black Americans. Most of what we here in the press is our so-called never ending struggle to be seen as "equals" in the eyes of whites. When this kind of rhetoric is played over and over again, the obvious effect it leaves is a very bleak picture of ...More

Constitution Party (http://www.constitution-party.net/) Former Nixon Administration official and Conservative Coalition chairman Howard Phillips founded the US Taxpayers Party in 1992 as a potential vehicle for Pat Buchanan to use as a third party vehicle -- had he agreed to bolt from the GOP in 1992 or 1996. The USTP pulled together several of the splintered right-wing third parties -- including the once mighty American Independent Party -- into a larger, more ...More

Now HERE'S something that has probably flown under your radar. --------- The drivers license (semantic deception for internal passport) legislation (H.R. 418), which passed the Congress and is on its way for passage in the Senate, is more serious than one may think due to the fact it was designed by two ex-KGB Chiefs, one of whom,Yvgeny Primakov, was the President of totalitarian Russia in the late nineties. (The merger of the ...More

This was one of those articles I started to skip, but as I kept reading, it gave me a good laugh with some pause. --------------- She is a best-selling author known for novels about vampires. He is a minister who says he has seen and talked with angels. Anne Rice and Howard Storm have never met, yet they are working together to promote Storm's book, My Descent Into Death: A Second ...More

This is a very common misconception and very self-explanatory. I think that most of us have plenty of stories where someone (maybe even you) was made to feel "less than" because you have never experienced the "hard life" of the inner-city. Inner-city life is seen as a rite-of-passage if you are to be considered to be "black". Miss this opportunity, and you may as well be wearing your argyle socks ...More

The funny thing about my site is that I get very good traffic, but very few comments. Once in a while when I do get a good one, I like sharing it with the rest of my readers. I really enjoy reading the life experiences of others like yourselves. There is so much to learn :)! ------------------------------------- I can relate to this article. I am a "product" of a 40-year multi-racial marriage. ...More

People of multi-ethnic origin in many cases have been faced with just as much racial bigotry as most people with two black parents. This is especially true if their skin tone happens to be of a lighter shade. Listen to many of these multi-ethnic people and they will tell you that at some point in their childhood, they had to make the decision of what race they would embrace as ...More