Gregory Kane, a respected former columnist with the Baltimore Sun and a frequent contributor to Blackamericaweb.com has died. Kane lost his battle with cancer on Tuesday. Family, friends and colleagues remember Kane as a principled journalist with strong family values who didn’t follow the herd with his hard-hitting commentary. “He challenged a lot of traditional […]
This is a tale of the greatest love story of the 20th century, one that continued well into the 21st. This is the story of Ruth Katherine Floyd’s love for her six children. And her 11 grandchildren. And of her great-grandchildren, whose numbers approached nearly two dozen. Ruth Floyd was born black, poor and female […]
Do the math. Let’s say you owe $431,000. You have to pay that bill at a rate of $627 a month. How many years will it be before THAT debt is settled? By my calculation, a little over 57 years. Now if you were 18, it would take you 10 years past the traditional age […]
Cheap Bastard. That, dear Jasmine, is your problem. It sure as heck isn’t your employers. Jasmine is the “stage name” of Danielle Everett, who’s an “exotic dancer” at the Ebony Inn in Prince George’s County, Md. Everett recently filed a lawsuit against the owners of the Ebony Inn and the Showcase Theater, another Prince George’s […]
Full disclosure and a caveat: the following commentary about hair comes from a guy that barely has any. So get all your “Kane, if you’re so smart, why don’t you have hair?” wisecracks out of the way now, and read why Hampton University School of Business Dean Sid H. Credle is absolutely right in […]
Being the contrarian I am, I’ll be celebrating a completely different holiday than the rest of the nation come Monday, Sept. 3. Most Americans will be celebrating Labor Day; I, on the other hand, will be marking an observance that’s not even an official holiday: the 174th anniversary of Frederick Douglass’ escape from slavery. […]
It was Imar L. Hutchins, Esq., Morehouse College class of 1992, that started the ruckus with his letter to Robert C. Davidson, Jr., the chairman of the school’s board of trustees. Morehouse is a historically black college located in Atlanta. The school’s most famous alumnus is probably Martin Luther King, Jr., but that isn’t […]
Make a note of the day, date, time and place: 3 p.m. Wednesday, June 27, 2012, at the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center. It was there that the Montford Point Marines finally got their due. The black men that were the first to serve in the United States Marine Corps were trained at a […]
I’ve heard of “‘tis the season to be jolly,” but I’ve never heard of “‘tis the season to be anal.” Until now. Shannon Cooper of South Carolina knows all about this season, and the folks who have gone anal. She now has an arrest record that shows how anal they are. Here’s […]
Don’t you love it when people prove you right? It wasn’t that long ago that I wrote this about the George Zimmerman-Trayvon Martin case: “Plenty of people in this country do buy Zimmerman’s self-defense claim, but trust me: many of those folks are the same ones who made Lt. William Calley a hero, […]
