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It was Monday morning and I had just arrived at the gig for another long day on the “plantation”. I plugged my laptop in and checked some emails from the night before. It was approaching 9:30 AM which is usually the time I make my daily trek to Dunkin’ Donuts for a medium coffee, cream [...]
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For the ones baptized when the levees broke…
Lord we ask you for your unending comfort.
For the ones thrust into the battlefields on foreign soil…
Lord we ask you to keep them and give them everlasting courage.
For the ones thrust into the battlefields of or cities and urban jungles….
Lord we ask you to give them [...]
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I remember in my small days bouncing through the city of wind in my ’85 Chevy Monte Carlo. It was grey with duals and I had the chrome shoes on it. I was just a youngster at the precipice of life with my future ahead of me. I recall one Saturday morning…I was leaving my [...]
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I was watching Glenn Beck on CNN last night and we all know what the topic of the evening was…..you guessed it… Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Once again he played the infamous sermon from 2003 and he had some old colored coot from the SCLC propped up there to give his take. Now as soon as [...]
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The problem with the disenfranchised folk of this country is that they feel some sense of entitlement or that America owes them something. They somehow got it in their heads that the folks that went to school, made sound decisions and obtained employment to feed there families, pay taxes, mortgages and tuition to educated there [...]
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Black fatherhood has many challenges and nuisance from the seemingly unending battles with mothers to society simply and unequivocally cheering for the demise and failure of black men. Good fathers don’t provide enough entertainment or drama and therefore are never really given the chance to shine. All the while father’s that are [...]
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Anybody that thinks Rev. Jeremiah Wrights’ sermon was out of line ain’t never been to a black church. It seems like when black folk buck the “happy slave” ideology white folk label it as anti-American [...]
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Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick & his alleged lover Chief of Staff Christine Beatty
Kilpatrick, family spend day in Florida as calls for ouster grow
January 24, 2008
By JOE SWICKARD, SUZETTE HACKNEY, JIM SCHAEFER and ZACHARY GORCHOW
FREE PRESS STAFF
The heads of Detroit’s 17 municipal unions may decide today that Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick should be asked to step [...]
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Reggie Potts has been arrested in connection with the death of Nailah Franklin. Here’s the link
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Verbal Water wishes to extend a Happy Founders Day greeting to all my distinguished brothers of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. The First of All Black Greeks!
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Join myself, DJ Diva, RareBreed & Chokklit in a new venture. Come by the Chokklit Shop and see what’s poppin’!!
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Me chillin with my boy “Third”.
Puttin’ in work on the 1’s & 2’s @ Altar Call 2007
Altar Call 2007
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Official homecoming uniform…
Getting the gear ready…check 1,2
This year ya boy will be packing up the ride & the misses and headin’ down I-65 to Nashville. I will be on the 1’s & 2’s at the “Altar Call 2007″ party for the grown & sexy alumni. The game is Saturday against Lane College which should be [...]
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Got my drank & my 2 stepOriginally uploaded by MadPOetic
I was out at the Twilight Zone on 79th checkin’ out my boy David’s band…Smooth Equations.
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The Jordan C. Hubbard Foundation was instituted as a beacon of change through information and education by my fraternity brother Jason Hubbard & his wife Sherri in remembrance of there angel Jordan. They are the epitome of faith, courgae, strength & perserverance and have left an indelible mark on my soul. I am embarrased to [...]
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My parents divorced when I was 13 and eventually my Dad went on to another relationship and ultimately getting remarried. I was cool with that even though dude kept it a secret until I found out 10 years later…”What! You mean to tell me that broad you’ve been living with all this time is your [...]
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SouthsideOriginally uploaded by soulfulnoyze
This is a picture of the former Ida B. Wells projects on Chicago’s Southside. The projects are being converted into $250,000.00 condos’…go figure.
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I just recently discovered that Michael Baisden has a show on the TVOne Network. I happened upon it one night in my desperate search to find something, anything worth watching. The show consists of himself, and sidekick George Wilborn and two special guests….one is usually a comedian and the other a specialist of some sort. [...]
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Check out this piece from Mary Mitchell of the Chicago Sun-Times. She did an exclusive interview with Reggie Potts, the former lover of Nailah who was thought to be the one who sent her some supposedly threatening emails before her dissappearance.
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