Why They Don’t Like Us and Why We Don’t Like Them: It’s Because of South Carolina

Within the past year or so, Americans have heard the words “South Carolina” and “Representative” or “Congressperson” in the “Lieutenant governor” and “Governor” same sentence and phrasing. Nothing really odd about the “Representative” or “Congressman” but really, we’ve been hearing a lot about South Carolina politics. South Carolina state politics are like that of New […]

Mainstream Media and their Love Affair With Chicago’s Violence

I was born and raised in Chicago. Born at the now defunct, and as I drove by just this last week, now demolished Michael Reese Hospital. I started kindergarten in 1989 here in Chicago, the first year of School Reform where Chicago Public Schools still had a superintendent and the establishment of the Local School Council was […]

Being Black and Dealing With Postcolonialism in a Postmodern World

Editors note: This is probably going to be one of my longer posts, maybe not, depends on how quickly I work it out. But if I go over my standard 1,500 characters so be it. So go get get the tea, coffee or print this bad boy out because I’m here until it’s done. A […]

How To Be Friends With Someone Who’s Married, But You Still Want…For Dummies

So, I have a friend who’s going through the similarly titled situation. Both her and the man have decided to stay friends because he’s in the middle of a divorce and both of them are under 30. What’s your advice for her?

My Encounter With An Atheist, and others who suffer from the I’m The Only Enlightened One Syndrome

The other week on a certain blog, another blogger had contributed a post that spoke to the growing trend secularism within the black community. This particular blogger had taken exception to the one and only Steve Harvey (although can I blame her) concerning a statement he made about black women choosing “a good black man.” […]

Why Are Black Female Bloggers Single and Giving out Relationship Advice?

Hey, it’s a hot topic so I’m still writing about it. I know my cousin back in Chicago is probably tired of me writing about it, but hey, it’s what I do, I still love ya @ellafay! But, it did recently dawn on me and some other friends the other day that a lot of […]

Is the Experiment of Capitalism Over?

So just recently Greece was yet another nation that is poised to declare it’s insolvency. I heard on NPR that Greece has a debt that is 115% of it’s GDP. That is to say that the Greek economy couldn’t even produce it’s way out of debt if it wanted to. Greece joins the rather short […]

Restricted Spaces

So busy really isn’t the word that I would use to say just how much work has been on my plate. I think the better word is preoccupied. To be specific, I’ve been preoccupied with papers that are necessary for me to graduate from this institution. I’ve also been preoccupied with trying to get in […]

The Lack Thereof… Intellectual Black Religious Communities

I think I’m going to start a new series, not that I’ve been super successful with my others, but alas, here goes. I know it’s pretty doom and gloom to write about the “lack thereof” particularly in the black communities of this country, or even various other cultural observances, but I do believe that if […]

Reclaiming The Black Blogosphere: We Must Do Better

My friend over at The Critical Cleric had long since said that the black political blogosphere did nothing for him. He went on to elaborate that many writers, he felt, didn’t give enough critical analysis of their own opinions and thoughts and generally just went off the cuff and went forward. At the time, about […]

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