Photo:toobbox.com “Yo, Hip-Hop started out in the heart, uh huh yo, now everybody tryin’ to chart, say what Hip-Hop started out in the heart yo, now everybody tryin’ to chart”…. “Come on baby, light my fire Everything you drop is so tired Music is supposed to inspire How come we ain’t getting no higher?”… “Superstar”… Continue reading “Hip-Hop Started Out in the Heart”
“This is my thing about Kenya….she’s a beautiful chocolate woman and she has a banging body yet STILL single at 43?? There comes a time when it can’t just be the men….something is definitely amiss with her..ijs.” As I read this comment from a friend while sipping the latest tea about, D-girl turned reality TV… Continue reading Scenes from the Single Life
Whatever happened to stun guns, pepper spray or shooting to injure, not kill? Once again, yet another Black male has been shot dead by a White police officer. Like the others before him, Tony Robinson was a young Black male with a promising future. Like Amadou, Sean, Trayvon, Michael, Eric and countless others, he was… Continue reading “Stand Up, Fight Back, No More Black Men Under Attack!”
The tepid water cleanses my outer skin and soothes my inner soul, as I swim for what I know is hours but, it seems like only minutes have passed. It’s as if I’m superhuman because I don’t get tired. I only stop swimming because another island comes into view. As I come ashore, I am… Continue reading Serenity II
The excitement in the air is palpable heart pumping steadily beating adrenaline in overdrive bodies twisting in angles that defy physics natural fluids lubricate the friction pleasure and pain mixed in with sticky and sweet in and out up and down over and under above and below fast faster now slow cerebral ecstasy is near… Continue reading Bliss
Our imaginations are one of the best gifts that God has given us. At times when I wish to be in another space and time, I go there—in my mind! I’m on a nearly deserted island. The only other people there besides me are those who are at my complete beck and call. As I… Continue reading Serenity
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Photo credit:Pintrest Whenever I enter into discussions about race, money, politics, religion or gender; I feel apprehensive, guarded and cautious. These discussions are always sure to get intense and often people are left feeling some kinda way, especially when they have opposing views. Though we may be…
Photo Credit: http://www.ctalent.tv Last year, I wrote a post called “Craving Positive Images of Black America”. The following is an updated version I’m starving and I’m craving—-craving more positive images of Black America to be represented within mainstream media, specifically on network TV. I’m sure that my upbringing during the era of The Jeffersons, Good… Continue reading Craving Part 2
Photo credit:Pintrest Whenever I enter into discussions about race, money, politics, religion or gender, I feel apprehensive, guarded and cautious. These discussions are always sure to get intense and often people are left feeling some kinda way, especially when they have opposing views. Though we may be open to what others have to say,… Continue reading Our Shades of Black Are Beautiful
Recently, I read, Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat. It makes sense that this is one of the past selections from Oprah’s Book Club. It’s poignant, raw, stimulating, informative and enlightening. In short, it’s about a girl who was born in Haiti and raised there by her aunt and grandmother until her mother sends for… Continue reading Breath, Eyes, Memory
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