I Saw Lillie Mae

Lillie Mae at five foot eight had always been an ebony goddess.
Her breast would heave when she would breath and she was never modest.
She had this thing for young men and my friends were just like me
At 14 we’d all strut our stuff for her at 23
Her husband left to go to war and asked [...]

I remember mama

I remember mama was ol school.
I remember mama was TINA to daddy’s IKE, w’out the violence.
I remember mama being so excited the first time she’d worn “blue jeans,” (this was after my father’s passing) that she called us all over to show us, she was so cute and proud of herself.
I remember mama was so [...]

Skinheads plot to kill Obama failed

First I must post this question…Do these idiots realize what the backlash would be if they even attempted such a thing and succeeded? I’m not even going there, but let’s just say that world war 3 would be an understatement.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said they foiled plans by an 18 and [...]

Court fight between the King siblings is actually necessary

Martin Luther King and Coretta Scott King are turning over in their grave because of their kid’s rivalry.
 
The two children of Coretta Scott King and Martin Luther King Jr. are still in conflict with their brother for several months now. As a result, their brother, Dexter King, was not able to meet his family including [...]

Aquatabs tablets launched in Ethiopia

Aquatabs, a tablet that would purify the water, was recently launched in Ethiopia. These are the tablets that would easily dissolve in water so that doses of chlorine will be released. This would kill the micro-organisms and other bacteria that cause diseases including dysentery, cholera, and typhoid. The Aquatabs were launched at the Global Hotel [...]

Sorry D.L. Hughley…you’re not funny

I’m currently watching D.L. Hugley’s new show on CNN and he just finished his monologue and as a black person, I didn’t find it funny and I didn’t get it. The entire audience struggles for laughter and it was obvious that someone must have been holding a “applause” sign.
What a waste of talent. The show [...]

Jennifer Hudson’s family murdered

The Chicago Southside just claimed another victim today. Another senseless killing, another life taken and another family destroyed.
Hudson’s fifty-seven year old mother, Darnell, and twenty-nine year old brother, Jason, were found murdered inside Darnell’s home in Chicago, Illinois. The victims were reportedly shot to death before 3 p.m. They were discovered by a family cousin. [...]

The weight of the world on his shoulder

How it must feel to have the weight of the world, the hopes and dreams of an entire race of people on your shoulders  while being dragged down with punches and stabs through your back by others but you still can’t give up and throw your hands up to your enemies because you have to [...]

35,000 Somalians driven out of their homes

The humanitarian wing of the United Nations has just announced recently that there were over 35,000 people who were forcefully driven out of their own homes after the fight that happened in Mogadishu last September. As a result, there were already more than one million people in Somalia who were considered as IDPs or internally [...]

Storm damage in Haiti has reached $1 billion

According to Robert Zoellick, president of the World Bank, the damages caused by the storms in Haiti this summer already reached as much as $1 billion.
President Robert Zoellick visited Haiti for three days. In an interview, he said that the amount of damaged properties is a lot for Haiti where more than 8 million people [...]

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