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Essence Magazine Can’t Live Without Mikki Taylor?

Mikki Taylor was more instrumental to Essence’s fashion department than they realized.  She has made her announcement that she will be retiring from Essence and somehow her exit has ushered in a litany of speculation that the magazine may be folding.  Taylor probably didn’t think that her retiring would cause such a stir. (more…)

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Black Children Are Endangered Species Campaign Targets Atlanta

Black women in Atlanta are mad as hell right now over an ad campaign that is taking up dozens of billboards throughout Atlanta.  ABC reported that the anti-abortion campaign is run by African Americans.  The billboards show a black baby’s face with ‘Endangered Species’ glaring over his head.  Billboard designer, Ryan Bomberger, who is black, explained that his organization wants to raise the awareness of the staggering statistics that fuel the campaign. (more…)

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Black History Month Spotlight: Rosa Parks (Video)

Rosa Parks

Today, February 4, 1913,  Rosa Louis McCauley (Parks) was born in Tuskegee, Alabama.  She is best known for not giving up her seat to a white man on December 1, 1955.   This event, arguabl, sparked what is popularly known as the Civil Rights movement with the Montgomery bus boycott.  No black person rode the busses in Montgomery for a little more than a year.  This was not the first time this incident happpened though.  She had been forced off in 1943, for mistakenly sitting in a seat reserved for whites only.  But, years later when she sat in that seat again, she was an officer at the NAACP; a secretary for the Montgomery chapter. (more…)

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Black History Month Spotlight: Harlem Globetrotters (Video)

Harlem Globetrotter Marcus Haines

What do you know about the team they call “The Team That Changed the World?”  Did you know that they not only were magicians of the basketball court, but they, arguably, were the reason why the NBA has any black players today.   Growing up, all we knew of the Harlem Globetrotters is that they were phenomenal entertainers on the basketball court.  We never thought any team would be crazy enough to actually try to play them because every time they did, they would make a fool out of them.  But, one instrumental game that opened up the basketball association was the Minneapolis Lakers vs. the Harlem Globetrotters. (more…)

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Chris Matthews ‘Post Racial’ Remarks (Video)

It appears that Chris Matthews was all flustered and discombobulated with adoration for President Obama Wednesday night after his first State of the Union address.  He was actually blushing and gushing like a school girl.  But, that disheveled energy has thus far put him in the hot seat.  But, I for one say, “Kudos! Mr. Matthews!” for letting your little light shine.  The perspective that you gave in this “post racial” time is a double-edged sword.  It gave an inkling of understanding of why white liberals may have supported and was interested in the President and his campaign that allowed them, for the first time, to move past their “tribalism” and “old ethnicity” to collectively say “Yes We Can!”  (more…)

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Site Where WW2 African American Servicemen Lost Their Lives Given National Park Designation

In case you never heard the story, which most of us haven’t, in northern California right off the Sacramento river the Port Chicago Naval Magazine National Memorial is five acres of land set aside to receive a National Park designation for the lives that were lost there.

On July 17, 1944, out of 320 navy sailors, 202 were black  and were killed as they loaded munitions for a naval boat during World War II.  According to the report in USA Today, they were ordered to “work as cargo handlers, loading explosives, incendiary bombs, depth charges and ammunition onto ships for delivery to the war in the Pacific.”  Naval record shows that they had no training in handling munitions. (more…)

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