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Tastes Like Chicken

8, Feb 2010

Nearly 17,000 chemicals remain corporate secrets – even the EPA doesn’t know what they are

Something About Europe And Black Soccer Players

8, Feb 2010

U.S. soccer player DaMarcus Beasley’s car is firebombed in Scotland
Other…
The Ugly Game
Spain Fights Soccer Racism Against Black Players

Corruption And Child Slavery Are The Norm In Haiti, But…

8, Feb 2010

…keep the cameras exclusively on the White people who allegedly were stealing children.
Haiti protesters denounce aid corruption, hoarding

Chocolate (City) With Cream On Top

8, Feb 2010

New Orleans elects first white mayor since 1978

Help! I’m Trapped Under This Rock, But I Need A Diverse Team To Pull Me Out.

8, Feb 2010

Dear Secretary Clinton:
As you know, the 42 member Congressional Black Caucus met with Rajiv Shah, the Administrator of the U.S. AID yesterday to discuss the crisis in Haiti. I was alarmed and chagrined to learn that none of the approximately dozen staff he brought with him were African American. This is so serious an error [...]

Can’t Make It In America? Right!

6, Feb 2010

“Christine Beatty and Kilpatrick both lied under oath about their extra-marital affair, which included thousands of explicit text messages.”
[...]
“Beatty served 70 days in prison and owes the city of Detroit $100,000 in restitution. She served as Kilpatrick’s chief of staff from 2002 to 2008.
Beatty, 39, reportedly has a new consulting job in Atlanta, where she [...]

Imperfect Bodies

6, Feb 2010

The show Project Runway gives us some insight into how some top fashion designers just can’t handle designing for the average woman.
“The women had all suffered from heart issues, and to their faces, the designers were nothing but sugar and cream. But after they left, the contestants’ true feelings emerged. “She’s got a real [...]

When Racism Becomes Trivial

5, Feb 2010

NBC Cafeteria Celebrates Black History Month With Fried Chicken Special
Celebrating Black History Month with fried chicken and collard greens?
So what? I’ll eat ‘em.
In fact, most Black folks eat soul food.
How is it that all other ethnic foods can be celebrated freely and openly, but the moment someone mentions “fried chicken”, there’s this 4th [...]

I opened it, read it. It said I was a sucka…

4, Feb 2010

SUCKA

This Black Kid Goes Well With My Purse

4, Feb 2010

And to think it used to be “That Black kid TOOK my purse.”
Children Are Not Bling
The only thing I don’t get about this article is while the writer is chewing out Americans (White Americans) for not considering Black children here in the US first for adoption, she later admits that she was guilty of the [...]

Random Links (2/4/10)

4, Feb 2010

African American Astronauts Seek to Add New Chapter to Black History
Captian Black to the rescue
“theGrio’s 100: History Makers in the Making”

Blogs Becoming A Thing Of The Past?

3, Feb 2010

“A new study published today by Pew Internet finds that teens and young adults are blogging less and using social networking sites more, with the prominent exception of Twitter.” (more…)
This was an interesting read because I, too have noticed that the days of reading long commentaries are numbered. Quick and to the point is becoming [...]


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