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Alright, alright, put your light sabers down. Yoda, Jabba, have a seat. The force that I am talking about is the ever-growing blogsphere. My reference to "dark" describes the increasing amount of blacks that are getting on the blogsphere. I can remember back in the day when the Internet was just catching on, I was immediately captivated by what could be considered as the pre-blogsphere: Newsgroups. The fact that I could ...More

Although I do not agree with everything in the Bush budget, this story was too crazy for me to pass up: Calling economic injustice among the "gravest of sins," leaders of five mainline Protestant denominations known for left-leaning political activism called President Bush's new federal budget "unjust." Leaders of the Episcopal Church USA, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Presbyterian Church (USA), United Church of Christ and United Methodist Church presented a joint ...More

On this date in 1972 the first National Black Political Assembly was held. Some eight thousand African Americans (three thousand of whom were official delegates) arrived in Gary, Indiana, to attend their first convention, which was more commonly known as the "Gary Convention.” A sea of Black faces chanted, "It’s Nation Time! It’s Nation Time!" No one in the room had ever seen anything like this before. The radical Black nationalists ...More

When African officials and oil industry executives come to Houston, one of the places they can go to get a taste of home is Kenny's restaurant in the southwest part of the city. Owner Kenny Adebiyi, an immigrant from Nigeria, says he is also trying to build an identity for African food and culture among both black and white people living in Houston. (more...) Did you know that there is a ...More