Originals

Anyone who has shed a significant amount of weight knows that the worst part of taking it off is the dreaded plateau. It’s that place where after dropping pounds like unwanted suitors, you suddenly can’t shake them off. It’s where it is easy to get discouraged and give up and begin that long, slow creep […]

This upcoming Saturday, the Schomburg Center for Research of Black Culture will host its first Black Comic Book Festival. Located in Harlem, New York, the Schomburg Center holds artifacts, recordings, paintings and other pieces of black history. Among the events of the festival will be a screening of “White Scripts and Black Supermen: Black Masculinities […]

This weekend I attended NBC’s Television Critics Association Press Tour. The tour was designed to give the press an inside look at their upcoming season and rub elbows with the stars of your favorite primetime shows. The heaviest hitters of the event were of course, “Deception”, starring Meagan Good and “Celebrity Apprentice.” We’ve all seen […]

Call it a lesson in the power of righteous indignation. According to the Pew Research Center, black voter turnout may have topped the turnout rate for whites during the 2012 presidential election. For the first time ever. In 2008, the rate of black people turning out almost equaled that of whites – no doubt because […]

Written by Jackie Jones, BlackAmericaWeb The most important thing black men can do for themselves, and their lovers, is to get eat right, exercise, get regular checkups and go to the doctor when something seems off-kilter. That latter issue, especially when it affects a man’s sex life, is particularly important. Many men are afraid they […]

It was a gruesome introduction to the reign of the gun. Six adults and 20 children – children who were probably still shedding baby teeth and believing in Santa Claus – were slaughtered at Sandy Hook Elementary School last week in Newtown, Conn. They were killed by a mentally ill guy whose tormented mind told […]

Mignon Francois wanted to help her husband lift their family out of debt. The couple and their six children were living in two rooms of a condemned house they were rehabbing in Nashville. The water and electricity were turned off regularly for nonpayment and dinner was often Ramen noodles. Francois said her husband “looked gray […]

For the past four years, Orly Taitz has been trying to prove that President Obama wasn’t born in the United States. But all the California dentist and attorney has really proved, among other things, is that she’s better at comedy than lawyering. The “birther queen,” keeps turning up the volume on her craziness about Obama […]

See “Survivors of Abuse” photo gallery below. Left to die in a car with two gunshot wounds to the head and one in the arm, Stephanie Powe refused to take her last breath. She miraculously dialed the car phone and told a friend, “I’m not playing. I’ve been shot two times in the head…” She […]

It was a lethal mix of too much, too fast. Jovan Belcher was 25 and a promising linebacker with the Kansas City Chiefs.  His girlfriend, Kassandra “Kasi,” Perkins was 22, pretty and the mother of his three-month-old daughter, Zoe. But last weekend, what should have ultimately been the couple’s wedding announcement became their obituary. Belcher […]

Bernard and Shirley Kinsey are African American art collectors who have used their love of black art and history to raise money for many organizations. The Kinsey Collection of art has been on display all over the country, including at the Smithsonian.  It includes a collective display of black history and artifacts, spanning 400 years. […]

Thanksgiving 2012 is upon us, but is everyone giving thanks for living in our grand old republic? NOOOO. There are those not happy to be living here in the U.S. of A. As there was in 1860, there is now talk of secession. My colleague Tonyaa Weathersbee covered this topic earlier this month, writing that […]