About Me:One of my many favorite Obama quotes is “Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.” This is a great quote to think about as we begin a new year. Each New Year brings hope, [...]
I like to call this summer “Snub-gate”: Officer Crowley snubbed Skip Gates, Representative Wilson snubbed President Obama and Kayne West snubbed Taylor Swift (all I can say is “Kanye, why, why, why”?).
On the Sundays that I attend church, particularly First Sundays, the minister encourages attendees to tithe, i.e., give 10% of your income for the use and upkeep of the church.
Each of us has mourned the death of Michael Jackson, the King of Pop in their own way. I downloaded his Thriller and Off the Wall albums to my IPOD and have been listening to them nonstop. Others have gone to pay their respects at his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, the Apollo Theater and his childhood in Gary, Indiana.
Those of you who are regular readers of this blog or who know me personally know that this blog tends to focus on my thoughts on philanthropy and current events and my opinions on those issues. It is very rarely about me or my life. Well today’s blog is a little different.
So we are nearing the end of President Obama’s first 100 days. Now is a good time to address a question that has been circulating in the blogosphere is it anti-Black to criticize President Obama?
None of us are immune from the downtown in the economy. It is affecting our lives in many ways.
Is it me? Or is this year’s Black History Month programming the thinnest in recent history?
Couldn’t it have lasted longer than a week? So while we are all enjoying our euphoria over President Obama two things happen which bring us crashing down to earth. The cookies at a bakery in New York City’s East Village (I won’t even dignify them with a name—check out the article you will [...]
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There were many things about Tuesday that touched me: our President’s speech, Re-Re’s song and Rev. Lowery’s prayer when he kept it real by shouting out the Negro National Anthem and including a rap of his own at the end. But the biggest highlight was the Obama family—the [...]