Community Checkup

Much has been written about black men cavorting to Brazil and the Dominican Republic for sex tourism and some authors have suggested the negative impact that this has on black relationships.  To me, this article provides a more interesting and global perspective on the matter and how we should not let this become the new [...]

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Might this become the only black news channel?

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Former U.S. Rep. J.C. Watts is developing a cable news network focusing on a black audience.
Black Television News Channel, scheduled to launch in 2009, will provide “original news programming with a distinctly African-American perspective,” according to a news release. It recently announced [...]

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For some time now the black community has been bemoaning the lack of involvement of black fathers in the lives of their children. A recent Newsweek article spoke to this issue in the context of discussing a new book, “The Beautiful Struggle” (which looks very interesting) as well as a recent study on the topic.  [...]

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No, he’s not light-skinned (or “light-skindid”)…
[Josh] Packwood will graduate as the 2008 valedictorian, the first white student to do so in the 141-year history of Morehouse, which has never counted more than a handful of white students among its enrollment of roughly 3,000. [Source: KCStar]
So what’s the word? Is this a good thing or a [...]

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Now for a more lighthearted post as the weekend comes to an end. Many of you have probably already seen the website, Stuff White People Like. Well, now there is a black counterpart called, Stuff Educated Black People Like . I found it to be pretty hilarious (and humorously true), [...]

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Everyone’s going bananas over the Vogue cover with LeBron and Gisele and the King Kong image it conjures up. Those who take issue with it say that the cover perpetuates negative stereotypes of black men as aggressive and animalistic. Then there’s the complaint over the stereotype of successful black men’s preference for white [...]

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A mini “TechCheck”…
A frequent commenter on this site, JJ, recently wrote me asking if there was any data to show how much blacks agree with some of the frequently mentioned views of Reverend Wright. I thought it was a pretty interesting question given the back-and-forth in the press and blogosphere lately about how how [...]

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Pat Buchanan has some issues with Obama’s race speech which he expresses in a piece titled, “A Brief for Whitey.” Apparently he feels like the discussion on race has been too one-sided and he wants black people to begin to listen to the white perspective (a group that he refers to as the “Silent Majority,” [...]

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Halfway through, I already knew that this was the greatest speech on race that I had ever heard a politician deliver. Truly historic. The way he placed the issues in historical, individual, and universal contexts was really unprecedented in the world of politics. He used an issue which marred his reputation (his [...]

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Bloggingheads.tv has a pretty interesting conversation on their site between Randall Kennedy and John McWhorter, two authors who have had some pretty strong disagreements in the past (well, at least one). It’s a great video to watch because of the format of discussion. It’s not set up as a debate for the two [...]

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