Out of all the things I have posted o this site, this series by far will be the most absurd, lame and downright asinine thing I have ever done here.
Michelle Obama (Senator Obama’s wife) touched on something recently in her interview on 60 minutes that I believe epitomizes the sentiments of many Black folks in [...]
-The fam and I arrived in Hawai’i safe and sound.
-Just Beautiful!!!
-Great seeing my wife in a real bathing suit
-Kids are having fun
-Great being disconnected from following current events for a while
-Will be back next week!
-Peace!
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(This will be my last post until 2/20)
Brothas, I think it is time for us to change up this holiday a lil’ bit. Are you one of those that:
-Buy a box of chocolate candy?
-Buy a teddy bear or some other stuffed animal that is marked down?
-Wait til the last minute to buy a card only [...]
Ever consider adoption?
From Wikipedia:
” The desire for parents to adopt children of the same race is the cause of some controversy within the United States, especially in the African-American community. There are more Caucasian families seeking to adopt than there are minority families; conversely, there are more minority children available for adoption. This disparity often [...]
Taking a positive (mind you, a rate that has been closely watched and talked about during Bush’s administration) and adding a healthy dose of skepticism.
“For the first time in five years, the African-American unemployment rate dipped. It went from 8.4 percent in December 2006 to 8 percent this January. Do the numbers indicate the job [...]
(nydailynews.com) WASHINGTON – In his first TV interview after declaring for President, Sen. Barack Obama says being African-American won’t damage his chances to be elected.
“If I don’t win this race, it will be because of other factors: …[that] I have not shown to the American people a vision for where the country needs to go…that [...]
From the website TheDynamicDiva.com
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Your search is now over and you’ve come to the right place for the complete African holistic, natural woman site that caters [...]
I’m a born and bred Northeasterner. So naturally anytime I see interesting news going on in the Delaware Valley (New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware) my attention pulls to that direction. This case (which took place in Allentown, PA) made me VERY angry.
ALLENTOWN, Pa.  Central Elementary School’s teachers and administrators, parents say, knew they had [...]
I read the following in the Huffington Post this morning:
In Newark and New Orleans, the level of violence is rising as a result of the war here at home. Record numbers of people are being killed on the streets of these cities. One reason often attributed to the violence is drug killings. The most common [...]
This is a question that came to mind as I was driving yesterday afternoon. Most of our parents told us that working double time was the path that all of us had to take if we wanted success in our field of choice.
Do you find yourself working twice as hard as your White counterparts?
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(AP) WASHINGTON – The Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced a project Wednesday that hopes to record at least 1,500 oral histories from black families over the next year.
The recordings are to be placed at the Library of Congress and in the archives of the Smithsonian Institution’s future National Museum of African American History and Culture.
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The [...]
(Chicago Tribune) A record number of Illinois students enrolled in rigorous Advanced Placement classes last school year, but the proportion of teens who passed the end-of-year exam continued its steady decline, according to data released Tuesday.
Last year, Illinois public high school students passed about 70 percent of the 76,683 exams they took in subjects such [...]
After 8 years of marriage and two kids, we are finally able to take a REAL vacation (for our parents the wait was even longer–don’t trip Duane ). Next week we will be going on our first cruise in Hawaii and its smaller islands. We initially wanted to go to the Caribbean, but [...]
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