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These Weeks in Blackness

Catching up our lovely audience to the last two episodes. Enjoy!

This Week in Blackness Ep#12 - Obama, Obama, Obama!

This Week in Blackness #13 - Black, black, blackity Black.

12Nov2008 | Fredric | Comments | Continued

…to get rid (or drastically change) BET, somehow get D.L. Hughley’s show off the air (or at least off of CNN), and ask David Alan Grier to abandon his cheesy Chappelle Show knock-off.
But I don’t want to be too quick to get past today’s euphoria.

The Obama First Family

Congratulations to everyone keeping hope alive and electing [...]

5Nov2008 | Fredric | Comments | Continued

Where to Watch the Election Coverage

Black Web 2.0 has a GREAT post highlighting what the Black media sites and mainstream technology sites are doing for the election tonight.
You voted, right?
Right.
So let’s get down with the get down and let us know how you’re planning to enjoy tonight’s victory.

credit: eob
Obama Potato

From BW2.0:
BlackVoices’ Obama Watch 08, has a few interesting articles, [...]

4Nov2008 | Fredric | Comments | Continued

The Night is Darkest Just Before Daybreak

A few nights ago (in a long, rambling, almost tearful email), I gave up talking about the election. A friend sent me a forward quoting Obama on Meet the Press saying “together [Michelle] and I have attended several flag burning ceremonies in the past.”
Anyone who has ever heard Obama speak would have known he didn’t [...]

27Oct2008 | gbevel | Comments | Continued

This Week in Blackness #11 - Debate, Bucks, Powell, OH MY!

In the latest installment of This Week in Blackness, I pontificate on the last and final debate, Obama Bucks and Obama Waffles, Colin Powell’s endorsement, and what a 10pt. margin in the polls REALLY means.
Check it out! (Video Below)

23Oct2008 | Elon James White | Comments | Continued

Blog Action Day ‘08

Time to get back to helping those who are less fortunate. Today is Blog Action Day (in addition to my birthday) and the aim is to bring light to issues of global significance, but of somewhat complexity. While last year’s issue was the environment, this year we’re focusing on poverty.
From the Blog Action Day website:
Global [...]

15Oct2008 | Fredric | Comments | Continued

Running with Scissors

As a child do you remember your mom telling you not to run through the house with scissors in your hand? The reason she said that is because she knew that even with all of your good intentions you’d stop paying attention and end up looking like Slick Rick, less the gold teeth and fedora. [...]

10Oct2008 | Molifeney | Comments | Continued

Correction: The Mortgage Crisis Was Not a Minority Problem

Fear has always been the Achilles heel of human compassion. We like to tell ourselves that we’ll give to the less fortunate during the holiday season, support and stand-up for what is right, and lend our neighbors a hand if they need it when asked, but many times, reality never plays out that way. The [...]

8Oct2008 | Fredric | Comments | Continued

YBP Company Spotlight: Head Strong Condoms

In addition to our peers who are changing the world either through illustration or executive leadership, YBP was able to reach out to an entrepreneur whose mission literally saves lives. Today, lets meet Kirk Manuel, a brother from Arkansas who started Headstrong Condoms, the first African-American owned condom company.

Kirk Manuel

Tell us a little bit about [...]

2Oct2008 | Fredric | Comments | Continued

Bookshelf - The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears

Dinaw Mengestu’s debut novel, The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears tells the story of Sepha Stephanos, an Ethiopian immigrant who runs a grocery store in Washington D.C.’s Logan Circle. Sepha’s neighborhood is rapidly undergoing gentrification, a shift that first becomes real for Sepha when Julia, a white woman, rehabs the building next door to him [...]

29Sep2008 | Andrea | Comments | Continued