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, [...]
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When the L.A. Times runs a story on a missing black woman on the front page of its local features section it stimulates inquiring minds.
Jeopardy question—what do the names Ensign, Craig, Sanford, and Duvall all have in common? Eureka!
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”?).
What happened Saturday during the women’s semifinal at the United States Open between Serena Williams and Kim Clijsters is just another example of how Black women are still seen as threatening and hostile.
Picture it. Los Angeles. 2009. You’re talking to your 87-year-old widowed diabetic grandmother on the phone who has just told you that she hasn’t been feeling too well lately.
Fact. On any given day I can open up any one of most read daily newspapers and never once read anything about a Black civil rights group, that is until one of those groups does something perceived has anti-gay and then its front page news.
I have seen a lot of disturbing things in the news as it relates to clear racial bias on television, but most disturbing this week was the 3-day Confirmation hearing of Judge Sonia Sotomayor, where for 72 hours…Senators, primarily white male Republicans wasted valuable time and energy rehashing over the same four words of Judge Sonia Sotomayor that were spoken to a collegiate group in 2001 about the added value “a wise latina woman” could make within the justice system in our country.
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.