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Everywhere You Look in America You Find A Black Footprint

     In 1964 the Black footprint in Congress was very small, but in 2022 it continues to grow and expand. In 2008 there was the first Black president, President Barack Obama, and now there is the first Black/multi-cultural woman Vice-President, Vice-President Kamala Harris. It is time for Black people to be positive and build on our success. […]

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Slap Of A White Supremacist Not A Black Man

     Will Smith’s slap of Chris Rock, viewed worldwide, was not that of an angry Black man. No! It was more reminiscent of a white supremacist knowing that he had the right to slap, spit upon or even lynch a Black man if he felt the slightest disrespect. You see, an angry Black man would’ve punched him in the face and dared him to get up, rather than sashay back to his seat and hurl expletives towards the real man still standing. […]

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#OscarsBlackAF: Will Packer’s 94th Academy Awards Broadcast Delivers

     The show which has grown from 15 minutes in its first year (1929) to an average of 3 and ½ hours in recent years had some controversy when Packer, executive producer of Girls Trip, Think Like a Man and Ride Along, cut some categories from the broadcast in order to shorten the time, which has been blamed for low ratings in previous years. The Florida A&M University (FAMU) graduate stuck to his guns addressing the controversy head on in the opening act and moved through the program effortlessly. […]

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“IT WAS NEVER FUNNY”

     Comedians have the incredulity to believe that anything they say, no matter how insensitive or wrapped in pain, the words are  acceptable. Even if the “joke” targets what a disease has done to someone. As was the case with Jada Pinkett Smith and her battle with alopecia. […]

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Florida’s Imbecilic Laws of Contradictions

  Gov. DeSantis and his Republican controlled legislators were in a hurry to pass laws controlling  myriad issues such as free speech, textbook selection, protesting, political donations, secrecy of lethal injections, and  a “Victims of Communism Day.”  Amazingly, they forgot to pass a law protecting them from ”Stupid Governance.” […]

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TAKE PARIS FOR EXAMPLE

     We can start with the name “Paris,” which is pronounced “Par-ee” by native French speakers in a way that could be translated to mean “The house of Isis” in the language of the Ancient Egyptians. […]