“Sean - you wrote your story one day too early, huh? The entire scoop broke on December 2nd! This man, 34 years old proved to be Unfaithful in all ways,...” Michele Earney
“like some of the other respondents, i too want to see it just "one more time" before it leaves theatres....” zabrina
“Having watched Baroness Maggie Thatcher in her flaboyant days as the British Prime Minister, i became a fervent observer of the World political scene as shaped by admirable, eloquent and...” SUNDAY AREMU
“We wanted our children to become Doctors, Lawyers, Nurses, Surgeons so we could live the dream of a better future. Instead we forgot to tell them its okay to be...” Bateaux1999
“HOLIDAY??...” FREEDOMFREE
“Good Vs. Evil: When good people get fed up with the evil that surrounds them; band together; voice their displeasure; confront and hold their politicians accountable; give the power back...” Michelle
“I've seen it before. Great stuff. Glass is a brilliant composer....” Proman
“ The Obama family represents what people can do despite the obstacles and the detractors try to take away from....” angie
“We got married in Las Vegas, compared to the wedding cost of $20,000 to $100 for chapel, limosuine service to the courthouse and wedding certificate. "We Only Just Begun Wedding...” Ms. Bateaux
“Yesterday I went to B&N to buy a book for a friend...I found The Tao of Wu in my my way to the cashier..since last night I can't stop reading...” Maria A. Herrera
“i will make the digital transition once the e reader devices come with full color screens. I love the convenience of portability- anywhere,anytime. I think they will not totally replace...” loveandhatela
“Eh Gads! Relaxing with a hard plastic machine and a cup of tea? I think not! My family thought I would love the idea of a Kindle since I love...” Sharyl Murphy
“This is just sad. What kind of lesson are these parents teaching their kids? How many of those man hours put in by the media, The National Guard, the Federal...” Muze226
“Tavis, I'm a long tiime admirer and hold you in high esteem. But I need to ask,(I know that you try to be fair to all whom you interview or...” Ed Mayer
“Michael Moore is a modern day prophet. He is in good company. More than a few rose up during the Bush II years. The original Hebrew prophets had and addressed...” Karl Pohlhaus
In 2005, The New York Times published an article called "Blacks Join the Eating-Disorder Mainstream." The article explained that "more blacks and other minorities have been seeking help from eating disorder clinics" and that "[n]o reliable numbers exist for how many minority women suffer from eating problems, but experts suspect that cases are increasing."
Yesterday, I shared my conversation with Stephanie Covington Armstrong, author of "Not All Black Girls Know How to Eat," whose story of struggle to overcome childhood trauma as well as an eating disorder that she developed in adulthood serves as a cautionary ...
Author Stephanie Covington Armstrong signs copies of her book "Not All Black Girls Know How to Eat."
"I thought I was supposed to be a strong Black woman at every moment of my life," author Stephanie Covington Armstrong tells an audience at a reading and signing of her memoir in Pasadena, CA. "I didn't know I could get time off."
Armstrong is a Los Angeles-based writer whose childhood in Brooklyn, NY was marked by poverty, hunger and sexual abuse. Her memoir -- Not All Black Girls Know How to Eat -- describes her struggle to overcome childhood trauma as well as an eating disorder that she developed in adulthood -- Bulimia nervosa.
Back when I was in Dubai last spring, despite my gracious hosts' fervent, consistent and unerringly gracious denials that everything was A-okay in the Middle-Eastern emirate, something smelled a little fishy. And no, it wasn't the raw sewage that had been fouling the coastline around some of its nicer resorts (this was the reason, I found out after coming home, that our itinerary kept us well away from the beach).
The very notion of the place is, at best, fantastical; at worst, suspect. A glittering metropolis in the desert, built on a foundation of sand and ...
Fans
and audiences waited eagerly this year to see the King of Pop return to
stage on his farewell tour, which was scheduled to begin earlier this
summer. When tragedy struck and news of Jackson's death hit ...
Rather than focusing on the fact that the Secret Service allowed two randoms to attend a White House dinner honoring the Prime Minister of India as part of their reality TV show pitch, I'd like to state for the record that reality TV is officially making the world a much worse place. We'll always have the crazies among us, the dysfunctionals, the narcissists; but why on earth should we give them TV shows? Not only that, why should we encourage them to pull stunts like this to get producers' attention?
Thursday will be my second Thanksgiving without meat. Last year, I made the mistake of not informing my family before the big day that I had made the decision to give up meat and seafood (but for the time being to still eat dairy).
And, because I hadn't let everyone in on my decision, I couldn't explain to them what that really meant for food preparation.
I ended up eating salad, cranberry sauce and bread. A lot of bread.
"Oh, Tamika. I didn't know! I can scoop those neck bones out of the greens before ...
As fellow blogger Sean pointed out recently, Black Friday is upon us. So-called because it's the first day of the year in which many retailers attain profitability, it's become synonymous with giant sales on everything from electronics to toys. Lately, however, it has also become infamous for the lengths people will go to get to said bargains.
Last year, at around this time, I blogged about the death of a Wal-Mart staffer in Long Island, who made the mistake of putting himself between the store's discounted merchandise and an hysterical crowd of bargain hunters who had ...
Holiday shoppers should take a careful look at store's availability of Black Friday merchandise
Look out Black Friday shoppers. There is a deal that you may not be expecting that could leave many singing the holiday blues.
CNN Money.com reports that while some retailers are luring customers into their
stores this holiday season with teaser ads for great products, these too good to pass up bargains may be virtually gone before you ever get to the store.
Ads like these usually employ subtle words such as "limited quantities" or "while supplies last."
To the casual listener, that doesn't sound so bad, right? Well, what if there are only ...
It's been impossible to ignore the hype surrounding this weekend's release of the second installment in the Twilight franchise, a story about abstinence and being a teenage vampire.
Call me curmudgeonly, but I really don't get it. I don't get the current vampire zeitgeist, and I don't get why so many people are so crazy about these Twilight books. Virtually everysinglepublicationinexistence has had an article about what this whole trend means and, after reading a lot of them, it's still not really clear.
Bill Cotter, McSweeney's contributor and author of the book, Fever Chart, put some money on some credit cards to start a business. The business didn't take off. He ended up in debt. The story, give or take a few details, is common enough in America these days. Cotter's account of his ordeal, however, is something different.
Published in seven parts on the McSweeney's Website, Cotter's story of his situation not only details the bizarre world of debt collection and bankruptcy law, but does so in a way that makes those things far more interesting to read about ...
To understand the future of healthcare, however, is to understand the past. Where did the notion of healthcare come from? How did health insurance start? And where on earth did we go wrong?
A recent episode of Chicago Public Radio's This American Life endeavored to answer those questions and, in the process, created probably the most interesting hour about the insurance industry ...
Every actor who achieves success for a certain role will always be identified with that character in real life, to a certain extent, and there's a general assumption that the two are similar. This is especially true for a show like Curb, which stars Larry David, Ted Danson and other celebrities, ostensibly playing themselves. In her appearance on the show last week to discuss her new ...
If you're like me, you spend way too much time trolling YouTube for nuggets of awesomeness like this. Hopefully, by my posting it here, I can save you some valuable time in your workday. Or, at least, give you a jumping off point for more video watching.
The clip is from a 2005 documentary called Looking Glass, about the composer Philip Glass, and sounds to me like it's narrated by Werner Herzog. I couldn't confirm the latter, but ...
Most people enjoy taking the opportunity to sit down and take a photo
with their family. It's a fun opportunity to share and
cherish a brief moment in time for years to come. By the looks of all the smiles in the picture, it appears the
same is true for the Obamas.
The White House photo was taken back in September and released last week through its ...
I've been a fan of The RZA since the first time I heard a Wu-Tang album back in the '90s. Among the members of that iconic hip-hop collective, his voice stood out, as did his lyrics.
I followed his work through his solo projects, through his collaborations with Jim Jarmusch and Quentin Tarantino, and was lucky enough to see him perform live on several occasions. No matter the project, The RZA could always be relied upon to create music that was unique, profound and totally satisfying.
As I mentioned Tuesday, the growing e-reader market and the new Barnes & Noble "Nook" had me shook.
After all, I'm a book lover and was worried that the ability to share electronic books would mean that traditional books would go the way of newspapers, records and CDs.
I admit it. I buy music from an online store. I read the newspaper online. I read magazines online. I listen to the radio online. I occasionally download a movie rental from the Web, instead of schlepping to the video store.
I no longer have stacks of newspapers sitting in a bin in my dining room. The basket that my magazines once sat in is now filled with unopened mail that I haven't gotten around to. I have an MP3 player and bold plans to download all of my old CD's to my ...
Roland S. Martin takes on a new role as host of his first Sunday morning talk program.
Ask anyone in the television
business and they will tell you (or at least they should) that getting your own TV show is no easy task.
Having
said that, one man's drive and relentless pursuit has finally paid off.
You may have seen him on CNN
during the 2008 election coverage, or filling in for CNN colleague
Campbell Brown. You
may have even read his blog on Essence.com
or even caught a political commentary of his on TV
One or The Tom
Joyner Morning Show.
Last week, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan
and U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder visited the city of Chicago
to address the issue of violence in the public school system.
This fall, the Criterion Collection will release special HD editions of Monterey Pop and Gimme Shelter, two of the best concert documentaries of all time. Monterey Pop, directed by D.A. Pennebaker, documents the eponymous festival in 1967, at which Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Otis Redding, Hugh Masekela, Ravi Shankar and many others appeared. It was as monumental a gathering of popular musical talent as the world had ever seen in those pre-Woodstock days, and Pennebaker's unblinking lens captures it in all it's hippy-dippy glory. The double-disc set includes transfers of the film lovingly restored in HD, ...
Yesterday, as I jumped online and into the realm of cyberspace, I was reminded from an unlikely source of how passionate one should truly be in their life.
I visited a website which featured La Casa Norte, an inner-city program that works with the city of Chicago's youth.
I watched this story about the program and was captivated by one
of the young men whose participation in the program had made a positive
change in his life.
Towards the end of the story, he said something that really stuck with me. In terms of ...
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