Dear Mr. President:
The other day someone was talking on one of the many shows where people do nothing but, well, talk—and the discussion centered around what you needed to do to regain the support and confidence of your black voters, because without them you would not be re-elected in 2012. Okay, they may be on to something because last poll I saw your popularity is hovering around 39%.
Basketball Wives Lack Husbands and Virtue
In Proverbs 31: 10 -31 the perfect wife is defined as a virtuous woman with characteristics that are wholesome and pure. We are also told that when a man finds a wife he has found a great thing…well I guess the cast of VH1′s Bastketball Wives aren’t familiar with these popular passages. 10 A wife [...]
This Revolution Must Be Publicized!
Renown author Bernice McFadden (Glorious, Sugar, The Warmest December, Loving Donovan, and This Bitter Earth…to name a few of her titles from my personal collection) posted on her Facebook page, “I think Af-Am authors need to start their own grass-roots revolution….. ” I am sure at the time it was just a random musing, but as the weekend progressed 84 people “liked” the comment and it garnered nearly as many comments.
Game On…or Game Over!
Last night was the much anticipated return of the television Dramedy, The Game, which had been off the air for two years. In 2008 the CW network made the decision not to continue production on the popular show, which followed the on and off-field lives of a group of players for the fictitious, San Diego [...]
“For Colored Girls” like “Beloved” was Best Left to the Readers Imagination
Amazing, Brilliant, Inspiring, Magnificent, and Powerful, are the adjectives being used to describe the movie For Colored Girls; Tyler Perry’s adaptation of the 1974 collection of poems by Ntozake Shange originally titled For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/ When the Rainbow is Enuf. I have tried my best to see the sunshine (and the [...]
Floridians Continue Vigil for Jobless Benefits
Two weeks later, extended benefits still have not been restored for some 250,000 Floridians. Although the AWI said they were waiting for guidance from the Labor Department, the agency had set August 9, as the magical date when payment of claims would begin.
The Real “Bad Girls” Of New Jersey
What happens when you have a group of well-to-do middle-aged women acting like the twenty-something cast of Oxygen’s hit reality show The Bad Girls Club? You get the Bravo hit, The Real Housewives of New Jersey.
Guilty By Association – Trapped In The Web of a Tampa Cop Killer
When many of us awoke last week Tuesday morning we were shocked by the news that two Tampa police officers had been gunned down overnight during a routine traffic stop, that turned out to be anything but routine.
12 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Attend Your Family Reunion
Happy 4th of July! With summer upon us so is the tradition of Family Reunions. It’s time to travel to grandma’s house or the hometown of our parents beginnings. I wonder, and maybe you have too, what would happen to the family relationship if there were no family reunions.
