Celebrating Independence Day by keeping it light and simple for the next 24 hrs. In that vein, rather than talking about Egypt, Trayvon Martin, Texas Representative Wendy Davis or the loss of someone I really admired just yesterday, I’m sharing one of my favorite go-to YouTube series for when the world becomes too much….
I arrived in New York yesterday for the annual Blogging While Brown conference. I spent the day enjoying the sights and sounds of my favorite American city. The conference hotel is the Aloft Harlem. I was a bit alarmed that my taxi driver had never heard of it since the Aloft is a major, global…
Austin Says Goodbye to a Community Legend Dr. Moe Anderson, soulciti.com On Wednesday, June 5, 2013, buttercup rays of sunshine peeked through the partly cloudy skies to glimpse the Who’s Who of Austin as they gathered to pay their last respects to Joyce Elizabeth Adejumo (Hunt). Well known as the founder of Mitchie’s Gallery (which…
It’s an old adage, “Chase your dreams.” Great advice if you don’t delete the adjective “your”. Most of us end up running all our lives, chasing everyone’s dreams but our own. Boyfriend’s dreams…parents’ dreams…corporate vision…images created by, for, and about someone else. The directive “to chase” indicates the dreams are separate from us and somehow…
There is a new sitcom on the ABC network called The Fosters. It is about an interracial lesbian couple raising the biological son of one of the partners, along with several other children who have been in the foster care system. In the pilot episode, the African-American mother, a vice-principal, brings home a teenager who…
These are the facts about her double mastectomy as relayed by Angelina Jolie. Her mother died of ovarian cancer after a decade long struggle; she was in her mid-50’s . With that very bad news in her medical history, Jolie made the wise decision to have genetic testing and learned the odds of her suffering…
They call us Boomers! Sounds like a high school football mascot doesn’t’ it? Initially, they fiddled around with the cut off for this generation so I fancied myself a member of Gen X during my forties. Sounded more hipster than hip replacement, you know. Eventually, the powers that be decided the Boomer subculture extends to…
I didn’t grow up in an “under promise and over deliver” community. In my hood, it was more fake it ’til you make it. Not once did I see even the smallest boy in the neighborhood back down from a challenge or the youngest girl admit she was in over her head. No, if you…
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