In less than 10 days, actress Sandra Bullock went from being an Academy Award- winning actress to a woman scorned. Her husband Jesse James supposedly cheated on her when she was in Atlanta filming the movie, The Blindside. He allegedly bedded some ta ...
Posted Thursday, March 18th 2010 at 9:21PM
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I am part of a Monday night writer's group. We meet twice a month, teach each other lessons on writing, and then read our pages of our works in progress.
This week, one of my partners shared what he learned from author ernest Hemingway's book on ...
Posted Thursday, March 18th 2010 at 9:19PM
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I'm catching up on sleep this week. For the past two weeks, my family and I have had to endure our new noisy neighbors. When our neighbor moved to DC, he told us that he was going to rent out his house versus selling it. His new company wanted him in ...
Posted Thursday, March 18th 2010 at 9:13PM
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I got the urge. It started last weekend. The weather is warming up and the sun is shining. I hear birds trying to build a nest outside my window.
I've come up with this year's to do list. The list includes buying new umbrellas, cleaning out my ba ...
Posted Monday, March 8th 2010 at 9:23AM
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Sunday night is a big deal in my house; it's been that way for years. The 82nd Oscars will be televised and our house we'll be tuned in. I'll also watch Barbara Walters's last Oscar Night Special.
2009 was a good year for movies. I saw a lot of t ...
Posted Friday, March 5th 2010 at 8:47PM
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Job growth in our economy is slow. The unemployment rates is high for people of color in this country. In my part of the country, small businesses are picking up the slack. Small business account for nearly 1/3 of our country's new job growth. The pr ...
Posted Wednesday, March 3rd 2010 at 9:33AM
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I have to admit: I'm glad Leno's back. Conan O'Brien just wasn't funny. NBC needs to admit that they made a mistake. I don't care what opinion polls say... NBC failed one of the basic rules of marketing: know your audience. Conan's humor just didn't ...
Posted Wednesday, March 3rd 2010 at 9:29AM
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Thought I'd share this with as Black History Month comes to a close. Enjoy!!
A very humorous and revealing story is told about a group of white people who were fed up with African Americans, so they joined together and wished themselves away. The ...
Posted Friday, February 26th 2010 at 11:47PM
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My girlfriend called me yesterday: she got fired from her job. It shocked me because Ann had been there eight years. She told me she was thinking about quitting anyway because her employer was mad she took a sick day to be home with her sick child wh ...
Posted Thursday, February 25th 2010 at 9:58AM
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This week, my daughter and I met with her high school guidance counselor to plan out her freshman year classes. Before our meeting, we did surveys, went through the school's curriculum workbook to check out the mandatory classes and graduation requir ...
Posted Thursday, February 25th 2010 at 9:22AM
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I haven't been watching the Winter Olympics too much. Frankly, I find them boring. I don't ski, don't ice skate, play hockey, and you can forget about snowboarding. Besides all that snow, the Winter Olympics aren't that diverse for me. I'm glad Shani ...
Posted Thursday, February 25th 2010 at 9:19AM
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Let's see ... there's Facebook, your internet address at hotmail, yahoo, aol, comcast, gmail...I could go on. There's Twitter. Cell phones, Iming, iphones, and Blackberrys. And while all these things have made it easier for us to communicate with eac ...
Posted Monday, February 22nd 2010 at 6:39PM
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I may hate the IRS, but crash my plane into its building? Leave a suicide note and go on a rant on my Facebook page because they stole money from me. This is a story even I couldn't make up. I also knew that the pilot couldn't have been of color or b ...
Posted Friday, February 19th 2010 at 11:48PM
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Former Los Angeles Lakers Star Earvin "Magic" Johnson who was interested in purchasing Johnson Publications, the home of Ebony and Jet Magazines, has said "No" to the deal. It seems that the 50-year-old Lakers star wanted to keep the next generation ...
Posted Friday, February 19th 2010 at 11:46PM
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I don't know how many of you watched. I didn't and frankly, I don't care. I had better things to do during the winterbreak today. I didn't want to hear about this story when it first came out and I haven't changed my mind. Tiger Woods messed up and h ...
Posted Friday, February 19th 2010 at 11:44PM
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The Story of Sleeping Beauty: A Contemporary Dance Experience, ended this week at Rochester Institute' of Technology's National Technical Institute For The Deaf's Robert F. Panara Theatre. My daughters never BEG me to take them ...
Posted Monday, February 15th 2010 at 8:02PM
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I've been off this site for a few weeks. There's a good reason why. I recently completed my latest and second literary installment, Win-Win, a story about love in the world of semi-professional football.
Widowed and sexy, filmmaker Madison has pu ...
Posted Thursday, February 11th 2010 at 10:37AM
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SuperBowl 44 Weekend in New Orleans recently got a little twisted. I heard a news report about former NFL player and Dancing With The Stars runner-up Warren Sapp. He was alledgedly charged with choking his girlfriend because she wouldn't get up and l ...
Posted Thursday, February 11th 2010 at 10:31AM
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I'm not happy about this at all. When I do get to watch TV, there are a few shows that I enjoy. Ugly Betty is one of them. Based on a popular telanovela, this show stars Vanessa Williams, America Ferrara, Judith Light, and a slew of other talented Bl ...
Posted Thursday, February 11th 2010 at 10:28AM
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We are almost halfway through the month of February and I'm wondering what you've been doing to celebrate Black History Month?
I've been covering black stories for my weekly 411 column in the Buffalo Challenger. Will be taking my family to a Soul ...
Posted Thursday, February 11th 2010 at 10:25AM
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I'm asking this question for several reasons. It appears to me that many people will place a takeout order or stop and grab a bucket of KFC before they will take out a pot or pan and whip up a quick meal. I hear too many men complain that today's mod ...
Posted Sunday, January 31st 2010 at 11:24AM
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Addressing the first African-American President of The United States as "Mr." Obama is getting on my last nerves. It just downright disrespectful. I have NEVER heard media address Presidents Bush or Clinton as Mr. Clinton or Mr. Bush while they were ...
Posted Sunday, January 31st 2010 at 11:18AM
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I'm finally catching up on my DVR-recorded programs. I had the chance to watch UNCF's Tribute to Lionel Richie. I'm so glad I recorded this.
For starters, Lionel Richie looks WONDERFUL at 60 and I laughed when Tom Joyner came out dressed in a HUG ...
Posted Tuesday, January 26th 2010 at 8:46AM
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I'm celebrating my birthday today. I woke up to find funny messages and songs from friends on Facebook. My family is throwing a surprise party for me tomorrow, but I haven't let on that I know. My daughters first attempted this last year when I recov ...
Posted Tuesday, January 26th 2010 at 8:42AM
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Doctors recommend that people who are having a heart attack take an aspirin to stop blood clots from forming in the arteries. But should you take a chewable aspirin? A tablet? Something else? In a small study from the University of California, resear ...
Posted Thursday, January 21st 2010 at 8:59PM
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