Keith Josef Adkins

Keith Josef Adkins is an award-winning playwright, screenwriter and social commentator.

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In-your-face observations of art, entertainment and the world at large from someone who cares. Can you handle the truth?

NOVEMBER 30 | NBC Heroes Employee Says There's Too Much Diversity in Hollywood

NOVEMBER 29 | Black Conservative Doesn't Want Oprah to Interview Obama on Christmas

NOVEMBER 28 | Peru Apologizes for Mistreatment of Afro-Peruvians

One man's opinion on very nearly everything. It's hard but it's fair.

DECEMBER 2 | Ten Things You Could Learn from Tiger Woods

DECEMBER 2 | Aunt Jemima and Politics in Darktown

NOVEMBER 24 | Meet The Parents

Manners and mores in modern life? It's about way more than where the fork goes.

DECEMBER 3 | Desiree Rogers' Teachable Moment

NOVEMBER 28 | The Tipping Factor

NOVEMBER 24 | The Turkey Is The Least of It

From finance to foreclosures, layoffs and lack of opportunity, a daily journal of the economic crisis and its effect on black professionals.

NOVEMBER 27 | Making The Most With Less This Christmas

NOVEMBER 25 | Young, Black, and Out of Work

NOVEMBER 24 | Have Blacks Been Shafted By The Stimulus?

Smart, up to the minute takes on politics--from the state house to the White House. Pull up a chair.

FEBRUARY 23 | Social Networks and Saddam Hussein: A Private Matter?

JANUARY 21 | Hillary Clinton Stands Up For Internet Diplomacy

JANUARY 20 | SATISFACTION, PRIDE OR DELIRIUM?

Engaging commentary, interviews, and reviews that delve into and beyond the world of books. Get read.

NOVEMBER 25 | Conversation for the Dinner Table

NOVEMBER 19 | Reading List: The Poetry Edition

NOVEMBER 12 | Publishing with the Stars

A daily conversation on hot topic culture items. From Zora to Zane, True Blood to Tiny & Toya, TEWW covers high art, low-brow culture and everything in between.

MARCH 2 | The Best Gabourey Sidibe Interview So Far

FEBRUARY 17 | Would You Let Serena Williams Do Your Nails?

FEBRUARY 12 | John Mayer's Stupid Mouth

KEITH JOSEF'S BLOG ROLL

    Rihanna and Chris - Back Together

    So it looks like Chris Brown and Rihanna are back together.  A source tells People Magazine that the loving couple was seen together at Sean Combs' mansion.  So, after the world was throwing daggers at Chris Brown for being a horrid, classic abusive black man, little Mz Rihanna was somewhere in Guyana, in between healing her wounds, trying to figure out how to get back to that allegedly tyrannical boyfriend.  Now I don't know Rihanna or Chris.  They're not relatives, friends, or acquaintances.  They're Pop Icons who have inspired public discourse.

    I said this last week and I'll say it again:  women and others should be trying to school other women about domestic abuse.  We spend way too much time hanging men in trees; but where's the urgent advocacy to educate women?  You know, to point out their patterns in this abuse game?  To shake them out of the victim daze and put them into action toward recovery?   The media and others should have been using this time to open that wound called "Women in Abuse" instead of throwing hate darts at Chris Brown 24-7.  But nobody's interested in that.  Cut to:  Rihanna and her boy Chris schmoozing it up at Sean Combs' mansion by the sea.

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