Share See the book Black Leaders of the Twentieth Century. It outlines examples set by black leaders and leadership in the past. A movement, that is going to bring about REAL change needs leaders who are studied in world history in general and Black history in the U.S and throughout the world, in particular. World history teaches us at that the most basic level, it is really is about conflict between the haves and have nots.…
Share Apparently with the mass communication that internet and social media provides, the #Metoo movement has gone global. However, sexism is just as about as common throughout the world as all the other ill begotten “isms” that structure our lives and world. Although the movement started over 10 years ago in 2006 by Tarana Burke, a Black woman who is a survivor of sexual assault, who wanted to do something to help women and girls…
Share This Black Classic play, Fences, by August Wilson and bought to film, is brilliant, and the performances by Denzel and Viola (who acted their behinds off) are no less so. It is a journey down memory lane of old school and their good ole’ fashion VALUES like being responsible, hard work, sacrifice, you can’t have everything you want (going into debt) saving for a rainy day, taking care of your family, sticking with each…
Share In response to the tragic mass shooting of James Eagen Holmes, according to Natalie Finn, “Warner Bros has cancelled what was to have been the film’s star-studded red carpet premiere in Paris and upcoming promotional appearances by the cast have [also] been canceled.” The trailer to the violent film, Gangster Squad has been pulled from all future Dark Knight Rises screenings and “networks including NBC, CBS and ESPN have stopped airing commercials for the…
Share The Trayvon Martin case bought to the fore the tragedy of the tremendous loss sustained in African American families and communities of Black boys and young men to the politics of being black and male in American society. The leading cause of death of Black males between the ages of 15-34 is homicide. Haki Madhubuti in his book Black Men, Obsolete, Single and Dangerous, addresses this when he states, “the loss of Black men…
Share Precious portrayed a teenager who is molested by her father, and because of jealousy, is abused by her mother, a lonely, love starved, crazed black woman who, instead of protecting her daughter, sees her as a competitor for her husband’s love. Unfortunately, this is the reality for many trapped in poverty in some urban and rural communities. Things that resonated with me. Obesity in the Black community. Over 50% of Black women over the…
Share The documentary by Chris Rock “Good Hair” is timely. It is about time that somebody expose the truth about the dangers of the chemicals in the perms that we put in our hair. The idea that Black women of all socio-economic statuses spend a lot of money to purchase hair from Indian people they don’t even know (and attaching psychic energy emanating from their bodies to their own) who think they are sacrificing their…
