Urban Thought Collective

About Me:

Yaminah Ahmad is editor-in-chief of The Atlanta Voice and contributing editor to Collective Voices, a newspaper published by the non-profit, SisterSong: Women of Color Reproductive Health Collective. She can be reached at missyaminah@gmail.com.

Hey UTC Family, I just had to drop in and share something I’ve been thinking about for a while now.

I know it’s been a while since we’ve last connected but I have my head down grinding. Will Smith said in an interview that once he has a goal in mind he’s like the Terminator. I’m adopting that same mentality.

Last month, I went on a press trip to New York to see a screening of the biopic “Notorious,” chronicling the life of Christopher “the Notorious B.I.G.” Wallace. While in the Big Apple I had the privilege of riding on a tour of Brooklyn hosted by Ms. Voletta Wallace, Big’s mom, and his co-manager […]

IN HONOR OF 2008, THE EDITORS OF UTC BRING YOU A SELECTION OF THE BEST BLOGS OF THE YEAR.
I don’t even know where to begin. I know. I should have followed my first mind and not watched it. But I did and now with hindsight I wished I watched with no expectations. […]

I received an email from a good friend of mine with a link to a New York Times op-ed piece about acid attacks on women in Pakistan.
Apparently, as a way to terrorize women, men have been throwing acid on their faces, leaving them severely disfigured.
Journalist Nicholas Kristof has been investigating acid attacks from Asia […]

To My UTC Family,
I pray that each person that crosses your path experiences the light of God within you.
Let your eyes be a gaze of love that melts away all negative forces.
Let your smile be one that awakens peace within all who see it.
Let your words speak the power of God and reverberate within […]

Doesn’t it always surprise you when a friend who’s been there forever is no longer in your life? And the person you thought would be fly by night becomes a ride or die homey? Man, life is funny. I’ve been thinking about this for the past couple weeks, then my co-worker sent […]

I was in a state of euphoria following Barack Obama’s election victory, as was the rest of the world, when I got a disturbing email.
It was meant to be funny, but if those jokes came out of the mind of a white person, it would’ve been inappropriate, insensitive and racist, to say the least.
What […]

Last week I went to the grocery store to pick up a few things to hold me over. Today, I did my usual bi-weekly routine of going to the laundry mat and venturing to Super Walmart to stock up on food for the next two weeks.
The store was half empty, just the way I […]

I woke up this morning finding the television still on with the news reporting how crime has increased in some counties of Atlanta. Apparently, it’s a byproduct of the economic crisis. They say smash and grabs – folks breaking windows of homes, cars and businesses and grabbing whatever they can – are up […]