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.

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 […]

She sat on the stoop, head hung low and with her arms wrapped around her torso, giving herself a much-needed hug. The sun was peaking through the trees and she sat quietly alone, rocking back and forth like her body was swaying with the wind.
When I saw her, my stomach twitched with nervousness because […]

THE DIVINE PLAN WILL PREVAIL
One of the things I’m working to reprogram myself on is to pray for the Divine plan to manifest rather than what I want. Sometimes it’s difficult because I believe what I want is right. But I’m learning that it’s more important, more peaceful, more harmonious (between myself and […]

So I was sitting at my desk minding my own business like I normally do (although I “observe” the goings on around me) and found myself in the middle of a very intriguing conversation I want to further explore with you.
The conversation was between a black heterosexual man and a black homosexual man about black […]

“Believe me, believe me, this woman exists,” said actor/director Tyler Perry. So, is he saying is that there are cold-hearted Black women who break the spirits of good Black men like Sanaa Lathan’s character, Andrea, in his new movie, “The Family That Preys?” And this certain kind of woman is lurking among orthodox Black women […]

Usually around my birthday I go into hibernation in order to reflect on where I was the year before and where I want to be by the next earth day celebration. Last week, I felt like my brain was clogged up with all of these thoughts that were clouding my awareness. You know how […]

I was browsing through all the juicy gossip stories on MediaTakeOut and came across one of Ice T and his wife Coco. It was a crazy photo of the 50-year-old rapper/actor performing in front of a crowd with his 29-year-old wife. She was on stage with breast exposed, basically, as the illustrious wordsmith Uncle Luke […]