Urban Thought Collective

About Me:

Miki Turner is a poor little colored girl from the suburbs who has the courage of her convictions. Her writings have been featured in Essence, Ebony, Upscale and MSNBC.com. She can be reached at devodiva1@aol.com.

When I was a little girl growing up in Cincinnati, Ohio, every Sunday my mother would transform me from an ashy-legged, nappy-headed tomboy into a Sunday morning debutante. She’d press and curl my hair, dress me up in the obligatory uniform—starched dress, anklets and black patent leather Mary Jane shoes so I could watch [...]

Today Americans will go to the polls to elect a new President. And if all goes well myriad miracles might unfold.
A Barack Obama victory will perhaps signal that those inalienable rights scripted into the Constitution weren’t just meaningless words. It could mean that these States will finally become United, that hope is more than [...]

Thine eyes saw the glory on Thursday night.
From a stirring rendition of the national anthem to Martin Luther King III’s powerful tribute to his dad on the 45th anniversary of his Martin Luther King Jr.’s iconic “I Have a Dream” speech to the tremendous ovation Barack Obama received when he strolled onto the stage [...]

When it comes to sports I’m always on point when it comes to predicting winners.
This year I picked the improbable Giants in the Super Bowl, the Celtics in the NBA Finals and I’ll go with Venus Williams and Rafael Nadal in the U.S. Open. But when it comes to politics, I’ve not [...]

Like many other Americans, I’ve gotten up in the political process for the first time in my life. There was something so completely and unavoidably engaging about Barack Obama and his campaign for change that I found myself watching more CNN than “SportsCenter” and reruns of “Soul Food.”
On Saturday afternoon, I was among [...]

I really wanted to like CNN’s “Black in America,” a two-part, four-hour documentary series that chronicles the ups and downs of what it’s like being black in America.
I listened intently to the passion in Soledad O’Brien’s voice as she recalled the year she spent interviewing black folks from D.L. Hughley and Michael Eric Dyson to [...]