My man Donald Sterling has completed one of the slickest "Come Ups" in the 21st century. Yes sir! Gotta admit playa, you did your thang and I ain't mad at ya. Yes I'm back! Now can a brotha write this damn article, please?! Sheesh! Yo, Donald Sterling
Ok, here we go again. I already know some of y’all are thinking “Now he going after Paula!” I’m not at Paula for her for saying Nigga or Nigger. I wish more people would be literate and “real” about what they feel. I’m mad at her for apologizing. If you said it, then you said it. How come it’s
You are not alone. The exact same thing that are heavy on your mind has been on the mind of others before. Yet, will you let that be a stepping stone or a boulder the weighs you down? The beauty of the internet is that you can reach out to someone. Free yourself to deal with an issue minus the uncomfortableness of actually exposing your personal is
Interview with Amanda Reen Amanda Reen is a thirty-three year old multiracial woman from rural Wisconsin who resides in the Boston area of Massachusetts with her husband Jeffrey and her daughter Olivia. I had the pleasure to meet Amanda while I was working on the series of interviews about the complex image of the African American wom
Interview with Linda Braggs Director/Owner of Serenity for Life Sober Living in Arizona An Arizona native, Linda Braggs is a writer, motivational speaker and creator of Serenity for Life Sober Living. She spent her childhood in Arizona and California and as a young woman she was soon acquainted with the destructive force of addiction that held her
Interview with Envy Red – Author Philanthropist and Entrepreneur Danielle Hutchinson also known as “Envy Red” is a Washington, DC area native by way of Birmingham, AL. A two time graduate of the University of Maryland, she resides in Atlanta, GA. with her two boys. She is a cancer survivor whose battle with a rare form of the disease has strengthen
Interview with Davida Green-Norris – Attorney and Published Author A successful lawyer, Davida also writes under the pen name Dicey Grenor. She authored Shameful (Taboo fiction) and (The Narcoleptic Vampire Series): Sleepy Willow's Bonded Soul (Vol. 1), Sleepy Willow's Heartless Soul (Vol. 2) and Sleepy Willow's Loosed Soul (Vol. 3) Growing up in a
Interview with Lemelia Johnson Bonner – writer Lemelia Bonner is a novice writer of creative fiction and non-fiction, and a professional mother. She lives with her teen daughte
The Black Man as a Protector Pretend you are walking towards home or towards a store entrance and you walk past an African American male. How many of you assume that he must be a bad man seeking to harm you rather than someone who could save your life? Sadly, most
Interview with Luna Charles Director of Hardcastle Enterprises Corp. and Author Born in Haiti and a resident of South Florida for the last twenty one years, Luna is a self-published author and the Director of Hardcastle Enterprises Corp., a business she created to help people realize the full potential that they have within themselves. The ol
Interview with Imani Wisdom Author, Entrepreneur, Blogger Imani Wisdom has been writing since the tender age of eight as a young lyricist. Later her love for words blossomed to short stories and to what she loves doing to this date, storytelling. Born to a public school teacher and a manufacturer for the local paper, Imani is the mother to tw
Above is a picture of Frederico Bruno, he is accused of pushing his ex-girlfriend and 3 month old child out of a window three stories high. He climbs down from the same window, finds a metal bar stool leg and beats her with it as she is lying on top of the 3 month old baby who broke her fall to a concrete ground. Read that over again. Take a
When I started this series of interviews many cautioned me that black people would not want to talk to me. Wrong. As a matter of fact, after I started sending out emails, expressing my intentions to write about these issues, the positive response was overwhelming. To be honest, people of color talked to me a long time ago, in various workplace sett
Interview with Quentin J. Tyson – Author and Documentary Filmmaker Quentin J. Tyson age 36 aka Qwest Allah of the Nation of Gods & Earths. First born in the year of Born Understanding & disciple of Timothy Muhammad of Medina (Brooklyn NY). Quentin or Qwest (NGE) is a New Orleans native who attended NGE & NOI classes in New O
Where were you on September 11, 2001? Me? I had just came home from a 6 month Counter Drug Operation deployment in Central and South America. Yes, I was in the military...the navy. I was only home for 2 days and in New Orleans with my first wife buying food for my (step)daughter's birthday party. She was born on September 12, by the way. After the
Who are the real owners of the place we call home? That's a question everyone should be asking in the next presidential election. I think of real common sense questions. Why is this so important? Well this photo was posted on another infamous website and linked to the page with a profile of me on it. What's interesting is this person wrote a captio
Y'all probably want to know where I get these images from? It's from the same infamous site I chose not to name because I don't get a check from them and they should pay people for the amount of time they spend there. That's another discussion. Is there's something wrong with this photo? I don't believe so. it's pretty accurate "according" to today
On another infamous social site this picture was posted. It got about 1900 hits with half the number of comments, cool if you want to be popular. What's just as disturbing is the captions that came with the photo. The original or sub caption reads "INSTEAD OF TEACHING HIS SON HOW TO READ OR BECOME A SUCCESSFUL BLACK MAN........NIGGA TRAINI
African American or American African, what are you? Now prove it. Lately I’ve been doing some research on the next topic for my blog show Open Book, when it occurred to me that most Blacks in America are illiterate and love it. That’s scary. As a producer of a blog that feature professionals in the literary world, I noticed there is a large
Interview with Anthony Pathfinder – Author, proofreader, poet, reviewer and contributing writer for the Urban Book Source The image of the aggressive-looking African American male, who cannot spell his name, has a limited vocabulary and has trouble keeping a job has become -- sadly! – common in the media. However, there isn’t too much said about th