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Some 100 years after her death, Araminta Harriet Ross is finally getting her props. You know Ross better as Harriet Tubman, that bold sister who escaped from slavery in Dorchester County, Md., and returned – 19 times, by some accounts – to lead other slaves north and to freedom. I prefer calling Tubman Araminta Harriet […]

Last week the world learned what basketball great Magic Johnson and his wife Cookie had known for many years—that their son, Earvin Magic Johnson, Jr. was gay.  If you didn’t already respect Magic for appearing to be a stand up guy, a philanthropist and a businessman who has invested heavily in inner-cities, then perhaps he’ll […]

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Living a wholistic life means taking care of all aspects of your being so that means your mind, your body, your heart or your emotional self or your spirit. We live on four different planes of existence. I guess people would call it body and soul. I call it mind, body and spirit. At the […]

NEW YORK -Sabrina and Tracy Martin, the mother and father of slain teenager Trayvon Martin, are parents in pain; a soft-spoken, spiritual couple on a crusade for truth and justice. “We just want to do what’s right,” Tracy Martin told BlackAmericaWeb in an exclusive interview. “We just want to do the right thing.” For Martin, […]

The controversial video of an African American father whipping his two teenaged daughters has gone viral and is sparking lots of conversation, which is always a good thing.  (See video below) I just hope some of the conversation brings about change and not just more of the same.  At some point we have to realize […]

As a father of a teenage daughter, I was particularly alarmed to learn that a 9-year-old girl was sexually abused during a lunch break in a Harlem school – and the crime went unpunished because the principal never called the police or investigated the allegations. The girl’s mother told The New York Daily News that […]

You would never subject your teenaged daughter, niece or little sister to sexual objectification, right?  You wouldn’t encourage her to dance in a strip club, surgically enhance the size of her breasts, or become the next Video Vixen.   But some people think we may inadvertently be sending our young girls down this road in ways […]

On Easter Sunday, actor Mekhi Phifer got married for the second time to his girlfriend Rachelet Barnes. It must have been a bittersweet day for his first wife Malinda Williams and his ex-fiancee/baby mama, Oni Souratha, as both of them had the chance for a “forever love” with Phifer but one marriage didn’t last and […]

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Yes, I’m gloating. Yes indeed I’m gloating. You can bet your sweet derriere I’m gloating. On Wednesday night, March 27, 2013, the Chicago Bulls officially ended the Miami Heat’s winning streak at 27 games. Heat fans hoping that their guys would break the 41-year-old Los Angeles Lakers’ record of winning 33 straight games have been […]

There are two sides to every story, I know.  So, when I hear about the in-fighting, the lawsuits and what appears to be greed coming out of the MLK family’s camp, I’m trying to keep an open mind.  But it isn’t easy. The latest is that the surviving children of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. […]

For New Jersey Powerball lottery winner Pedro Quezada, the Dominican bodega owner who just collected $215 million, the adage “Mo’ money, mo’ problems” has already proven true. Just days after winning the fourth largest Powerball jackpot in history, New Jersey authorities say he’s subject to arrest for the $29,000 he owes in back child support. […]

It seems that yet another reality show marriage has bit the dust. Kordell Stewart — the former Pittsburgh Steelers star — has filed for divorce from his reality star wife Porsha Williams. According to the divorce docs, Kordell says the marriage is “irretrievably broken” … and claims the two are currently separated. Generally speaking, no […]