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2009All APRIL POSTS (15)
100 Days On: Are We Post-Racial Yet?
100 Days on, and do you see any sign of the "post-racial America?" Do you feel the love?
Channel Zero: Retuning Black TV
Why can't black people get television right?
Earth Day in Da 'Hood
When you live in the 'hood, "environmentalism" means urinating outside. It's not about seperating your plastics and paper or whatever. Maybe once I start eating right again, I'll plant a tree. I know my apathy is a problem, but I don't know what to do about it. How do you make Earth Day and "green living" relevant to poor people and the 'hood?
Flying While Fat
Who is going to be the one deciding who’s fat and who’s just big boned? You think the airport is hellish now, wait until the first time some sista is pulled aside or bumped from a flight because she’s too big. There’s gonna be hell to tell the captain.
Jamie Foxx: No Women, No Kids
Good thing Foxx apologized. I know if Jamie Foxx went hard at my daughter on the radio, I'd have to get him, and let's just say his prognosis would be "Unpredictable."
Quincy Brown to Al B. Sure: Dear Papa
Children never really know what goes on between parents and how that can affect their relationship. I hope Quincy Brown’s open letter opens a dialog with his father –his biological father.
Lost Martin Luther King Jr. audio tapes found
Lost MLK tapes have been unearthed, or whatever.
The Problem with Pirates
We have effectively made a bad situation worse, where our freighters will not only be targets, but somebody is going to be trying to collect blood and a pound of flesh in the name of thier fallen countrymen who, after all, weren't hobby-pirates: those dudes were trying to survive.
Urban Gardening -- How Hard Could It Be?
The idea of growing my own garden has become more and more appealing to me. But I need some feedback from YOU.
Are Black Women Choosing Gay Men?
Dwight Eubanks, the hairdresser from The Real Housewives of Atlanta is reportedly engaged to a woman. If you haven’t seen the show, you should know that Eubanks isn’t a little suspect: Dude is full-on napalm with his -- not that there’s anything wrong with that. Eubanks says he’s bisexual, though, and I take him at his word. But he goes on to say that he gets more play from women than he does from men.
Legalizing Gay Marriage
I think what gays and lesbians will find out when all states eventually legalize gay marriage is that it isn't all it's cracked up to be. Blacks weren't allowed to marry for the longest time -- should we, as some would say, be more active in supporting rights for others?
King Magazine: Aimed Low and Still Missed
King Magazine was the stroke-book you find hidden in your son’s mattress and not the kind of magazine a grown man could read on the subway. We could blame it on hip-hop culture, but it's bigger than that. We simply do not expect black men to need intellectual stimulation.
talk like sex: Pop stars as Pied Pipers
If merely listening to Snoop Dogg can make your daughter go out and drop it like it's hot, then you failed.
John McCain Loves Black People
That's how disconnected McCain is: He thinks he can shore up his bonafides and buy a pass into DarkTown by reaching back in time and lobbying to give a dead black man a pardon.
