April 2009
273 posts
March 2009
406 posts
My boyfriend wants to give me an engagement ring for my birthday, and I’m all with it—except I know it’s going to be too small. He’s an understated kind of guy in general, and he makes a really…
ABC’s “Good Morning America” is doing a series called “Black and White Now” where I guess they are trying to figure out when racism will be over or not. They got a three-part series jumping off this…
Here we go again. First, it was Bernie Mac in Guess Who?
Those of us who have been black for a while will find this news as shocking as a new report proving that the sky is still blue, but a recent study has suggested that workplace discrimination may…
Over the weekend I spoke to my sister, whose brother-in-law ran into some trouble in Atlanta. While leaving Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, he stopped to check on what appeared to be a…
Though many of you already in the workforce will find this news as shocking as word that the sky is still blue, a recent study has suggested that workplace discrimination may actually increase…
Score one for investigative journalism.
By now, a Monday morning downer on the front page shouldn’t faze me. But when the White House announced that GM and Chrysler had still not come up with meaningful enough restructuring plans to…
Denist Stewart’s piece in THE ROOT today describes the truly difficult and ungainly process of raising coin that is going on at historically black colleges and universities nationwide. Though…
Interesting piece on THE BEAST this morning regarding President Obama’s curt dismissal of marijuana legalization:
[T]he usually long-winded president—who famously admitted to his own youthful…
This weekend’s shooting spree at the senior-care facility in Carthage, N.C. has me concerned: Senior facilities are frighteningly unsafe. You can walk into the AIG headquarters and front-desk…
I am engaged and thrilled—love my fiancé, love his family.
Love that my family is happy our families will be joined, and
That his family feels the same way.
