Jamar Pinkney, Sr. While everyone is abuzz about the movie "Precious" (which I admit I haven't seen yet but, intend to) and the fact that it touches on incest and abuse, a friend of mine brought a horrible crime to my attention that occurred in Detroit...

The economy is so bad: 1. I went to buy a toaster oven and they gave me a bank. 2. I got a pre-declined credit card in the mail. 3. CEO's are now playing miniature golf. 4. Hot Wheels and Matchbox cars are now trading higher than GM. 5. President Obama...

I had a fourth grade teacher (no this is not another funny story)... I had a fourth grade teacher, an elderly black woman who was about to retire who asked us, "Who is the first person we should learn to love?" We gave an assortment of answers... some...

Sammy Peralta Sosa This is going to be the first of a new recurring post on this blog and I'll dedicate this to people in the news who's behavior just makes you scratch your head and go, "What the hell?" For those of you who are not sports fans, this...

There used to be a time amongst African Americans that if a horrendous crime was committed, everybody crossed their fingers and prayed that the perp was not black. It was universally felt that if the criminal was black, then a stain would be cast upon...