I Have No Words…Girl with Tourettes Syndrome Displays Blatant Prejudice

This is a feature I’ve kept up everytime something in the news surfaces that just has NO apparent explanation and just totally stops me in my tracks.  One was Pat Buchanan’s explanation that blacks should be thankful for slavery because it brought us to the wonderfulness that is the effing country.  **rolls eyes**
But this morning, [...]

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UNN Guest Blog: Why We Only Speak To Men We Meet Indoors

Continuing the tradition of Guest blogs, I bugged Uppity Friend to no end to do a guest blog.  She finally got her topic as we were walking from the U Street corridor to Howard’s campus back in May when she had come out here to the “urreah.”  Please read, and leave feedback, I’d love to [...]

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In Honor of the ‘Quilt Sewers’

Those of you that have been keeping up with my blog this summer you know that I’m in an internship where I’m the ONLY black person; moreover, that I’ve only had conversations with less than five black people this entire summer.  So, when I got back from Phliadelphia I was starting to feel the effects [...]

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Can Someone Watch CNN’s College Panel on ‘Black in America’ for me

I’m going to be at work tomorrow and I just got word late tonight that CNN is supposed to have a mixed panel of college students to speak on their response to Black in America. They showed a panel of three blacks, two young black women who were seniors at Spelman and I guess presumably [...]

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In the Midst of Being ‘Black in America’

This CNN special blew up bigger than they expected.  I’m quite sure.  I don’t know what to really say, I’ve heard both sides of the argument as far as how effective the special was.  But, guess what, I haven’t seen it in its entirety.  I fully saw the Essence/CNN panel last week, and I thought [...]

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Obamamania Spreads to Europe

 
Well, I’ve been quite mum as far as the political process is concerned.  I officially took the UNN off of Obamawatch! 2008 the day he decided to throw his pastor under a bus/do a driveby/plunge him into the water depths (your pick).  Ever since then my blog more or less discussed politics in general–this was [...]

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Cable News Network, CNN, announces name change to Caring Negro Network

 
[Editor's note:  This post has images and language that some readers may find offensive.  Reader discretion is advised.]

“A very close look at some of the biggest issues affecting the black community today….”
“Not a story about black people in this country, a story abut Americans in this country…they are black Americans…a story that will resonate with [...]

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Rules for whites with regards to Hip Hop

I got this from an email forward, which was a result of the Put On Blast emails.  This was somewhat of a response to my host mother and her point of view that says “hip hop came from the prison culture.”  The following is from JLove Calderon entitled “White Like Me: 10 Codes of Ethics [...]

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For Those Who Remember…the Organ Solos at the Old Church

Maybe it’s just the particular churches I’ve visted, but by in large, for some reason, the young organ players, usually don’t do a lot of soloing.  Not saying they can’t, I fully believe these kats are gifted to do so, but for whatever reason church service doesn’t allow them to do so.  Ran across the [...]

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UNN Guest Post from The White Girl

YAY!!!
I finally have a guest blog.  Although, she is not one of the first people I asked to do a guest blog, she is the first one who actually did it.  Hopefully The White Girl will spur my others to do their guest blog.  But, The White Girl is a colleague of mine at ITC.  [...]

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