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Monday 10 July

  • Black Gay Bloggers Launch Protest Against Music Industry’s Anti-Gay AIDS Concert (13:01) - LIFEbeat AIDS Concert to Feature Performances by Homophobic Reggae Artists Beenie Man and TOK Los Angeles/New York (July 10, 2006) – A coalition of Black lesbian and gay bloggers have launched a worldwide online campaign against a music industry group’s... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
    • Tuesday 27 June

  • Being A Gay Black Man (23:26) - By Katina Parker This is a must see. A well put-together videocast from Washington Post about being Black and gay, part of their series on being Black and male. What you're about to view is a great introductory piece.... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
    • Sunday 18 June

  • State of the Art Black Community Website Promotes In Depth Unity (01:00) - By Darice Jones Michigan Activist Works to Ignite Black Reunion Website Encourages Unity Across Boundaries Oakland, CA June 15, 2006 Irrepressible passion alongside visions of a more inclusive dialogue within the African Diaspora drove Detroit activist/writer Terry Howcott to... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
    • Monday 12 June

  • This Is Fabulous! (22:25) - I'm loving this. Jasmyne Cannick posted this on her site tonight and I thought I should take time out to mention this article and another noteworthy article on her site. This article, entitled L.A. Black Pride: Official ATB Billboards Go... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
    • Sunday 11 June

  • Love Amid Controversy (15:45) - Photo right: Despite initial misgivings about marriage, Atlanta resident Fiona Zedde (right) says there’s simply something about LaTania McKenzie that makes her want to say ‘I Do’ to a lifelong relationship. Atlanta couples wed despite anti-gay marriage fight By RYAN... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
    • Tuesday 16 May

  • Swoopes 22 (09:52) - Nothing But Net Profit Sheryl Swoopes brings championship style to Houston club By DEBORAH MONCRIEF BELL Houston Voice Friday, April 28, 2006 Website: http://www.swoopes22.net/ The mirror balls are hung and the large screens are in place as workers, with a... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
    • Wednesday 26 April

  • Hola, Buenas Tardes – Que Pasa (18:38) - by Terry Howcott April 22, 2006 I wish I spoke respectable Spanish, but being the class clown in Middle School Spanish class, I never got around to learning a dang thing. My apologies to Ms. Gonzales from then Hampton Jr.... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
    • Saturday 7 January

  • A Little Sugar In Her Bowl (09:33) - This afternoon I read a most disconcerting email. The email pertained to one of our own, Gwen Avery, a woman who has pleasured us with such songs as Sugar Mama, Cry No More, and Do I Move You needs our... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
    • Tuesday 6 December

  • My Fight For Clemency (10:32) - Two months ago I attended a small and informal meeting at the Lucy Florence Coffee House in Leimert Park to discuss the pending execution Stanley Tookie Williams. I knew that I didn’t support the death penalty but I wasn’t that... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
    • Saturday 3 December

  • Sharks, Elephants, Abandoned Puppies, And A Tiger Of A Total Man [Stanley “Tookie” Williams] (10:27) - I vehemently oppose the killing machine that is called “the death penalty.” It is part and parcel of a more than 200 year historic national desire to perpetrate the killing of Black people - and Black men in particular. I... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
    • Tuesday 8 November

  • Yet Another Conspiracy Against Us...By Our Own (10:40) - There's a conspiracy to block access to films of substance or films that might educate minority communities by movie executives and big business. These same people are also the reason why we only get certain types of films in our... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
    • Tuesday 1 November

  • Player Hating And Setting Rigid Controls For ‘Nothing But Africans’ (10:24) - As most know by now, NBA Commissioner David Stern has issued an executive order that predominantly Black players will dress in a "business casual" manner when traveling. This new “dress code” dictates players can no longer leave or arrive at... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
    • Saturday 15 October

  • Black Same-Gender-Love, Represented At Historic ‘Millions More Movement’ Podium (10:13) - This years’ ‘Millions More Movement (MMM)’ rally, held October 15, 2005, on the National Mall in Washington D.C. was historic for same-gender-loving (SGL) and bisexual members of the Black community, and for the community at-large. At the 10th anniversary of... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • Making Change (09:42) - 25 Sisters who give back to move us forward―Jasmyne Cannick October 15, 2005 By Angela D. Odom It is not often we have an opportunity to see one of our own honored in mainstream media. Jasmyne Cannick is in this... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
    • Tuesday 6 September

  • Katrina: Contemporary Screams Of Agony And The Distinguished Souls Of Black Folk (10:04) - There are no words to express what we have witnessed in news accounts out of Louisiana and Mississippi. Overused terms such as revulsion, horror, terror and outrage just don’t compensate. The combined federal abandonment and neglecting to death of perhaps... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
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