Written by: K-LA Gregory Isaac aka Cool Ruler Jamaican legend passed away yesterday at the age of 60 from lung cancer. Mr. Isaac played in heavy rotation in my basement while I was growing up. If you don’t know him just think of him as the Jamaican Keith sweat. He made the music that people [...]
Like Cocaine In A Can, New Harmful Drinks Marketed To Minorities For a nominal fee Black people(and other minorities) can get something that is the equivalent of cocaine in a can. Many of us have already had some. If you have had “Joose”, of “4 Loko” you know what I’m talking about. These alcoholic drinks [...]
Abandonment In A Storm By Vivian Dixon Sober I lay in bed in a deep sleep well into the night, or early morning after midnight. Suddenly awakened by a moving force starting inches below my belly button but creeping toward my esophagus slamming my air canal shut tightly like steel doors that couldn’t be opened. [...]
The Rebellious Vegetarian “if You Re-Bel With A Cause, You won’t be a Rebel Without a Cause” – Last Chance Charlie ‘Eat organic’; ‘Free Range & Cage Free’; ‘Grass fed – no steroids’; ‘wild caught – no nets – on lines‘. ‘Cramped enclosures‘; ‘de-beaked and abused’; ‘over-farmed &; over-fished’; ‘outbreaks of disease’; ‘Tyson and Monsanto’. [...]
The Washington Post Reports: A textbook distributed to Virginia fourth-graders says that thousands of African Americans fought for the South during the Civil War — a claim rejected by most historians but often made by groups seeking to play down slavery’s role as a cause of the conflict. The author, Joy Masoff, who is not [...]
LATimes.com Reports: National Public Radio terminated the contract of commentator Juan Williams after he said on Fox’s “The O’Reilly Factor” that people wearing Muslim garb on airplanes made him “worried” and “nervous.” “…when I get on a plane, I got to tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, [...]
“I Love My Hair” is a new Sesame street song that teaches young black girls to love their natural hair. “I Love My Hair” was created by a concerned father named Joseph Mazzarino, who is a writer for Sesame Street. His daughter was adopted and came from Ethiopia. When she was around four years old [...]
UPI Reports: ATLANTA, Oct. 17 (UPI) — A suit against U.S. television personality and model Tyra Banks says she featured a teenage girl on a show about sex addiction without parental permission. In her $3 million suit, McClendon said she didn’t know about her daughter’s television debut until it was too late. Read Full Article [...]
The Death Of Myspace: Are you still using it… A few weeks ago a friend of a friend asked me what I was doing on my computer. He said, “ What are on? Twitter? Myspace? Facebook?” I looked up from my computer with a confused look on my face and stated with a part laugh, [...]
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