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Living Black and Sleeping White
Today interracial dating seems to be more popular than at any time in my recent memory. A couple of my siblings married white women, my sons have dated white women I have mixed relatives, which is not uncommon. My nephew married a white woman. I have dated white men....
Freedom: Maybe It’s Time to “Ditch the Witch”
I had been thinking on this for some time now, but a Facebook post set me off again. The comment stated, in essence, that no child should be raised in the "city." All children should be raised in the country for their own sanity and safety's sake. I remember...
Run For Peace Through Chicago’s Englewood Neighborhood
A quiet Sunday morning, June 1st in the Englewood neighborhood in Chicago, IL, men and women ran the streets. Not in the fashion you might expect in this Southside neighborhood. They ran for Peace. The brainchild of Christopher Posey, a Chicago native, Run For Peace...
The Love of My Life, Ruby Dee, Has Passed Away
Don't get me wrong, I admired and respected Maya Angelou deeply. Her history, her accomplishments and achievements, everything she did and stood for was cherished and appreciated by all. There is no comparison or competition, but if I had to say a woman really stole...
The Historical Link Between The Jews And The Africans
The truth is stranger then fiction. Maybe one reason why most of us only keep an illusion of truth as not to be jolted out of sleep. For those who linger in the shadows and feel too comfortable in their state of half-awareness, let me be your alarm. Here are a few...
The Jews & The Slave Trade, What They Want Us To Forget
When I was growing up, my knowledge of the world, history and it's many Peoples was very rudimentary. My world-view was colored and formed by my Christian upbringing. Amongst which the Christian (white) tale of the Jews, the chosen people of the god who created earth...
Introduction: The God Genome
The God Genome, A Six-part Series An Urban Intellectuals Exclusive The God Genome is an exclusive six-part series that encompasses and digests the many broad threads and facets of Black history, geology, geography, science, genealogy, and scripture and brings them...
The Independent Woman Movement Revisited Pt. I
It’s been 14 years since the release of the song “Independent Women Pt. I” by Destiny’s Child from the Charlie’s Angels Soundtrack. To refresh our memories, the lyrics from the first stanza go a little something like this: “Question, Tell me what you think about me...
28 Years A Lie: The Awakening of Black America to The Truths
Yes, "28 Years A Lie," that was a play on words with the hit film "12 Years A Slave." Now that I've got your attention, let's focus for a moment on a recent news report about an M.I.T. Dean who managed to stay in her position for the better part of close to 30 years...
Fantasia: “Gay Is a Sin”
Awhile back, there was an article on Blackbluedog.com about the public release of the Gay Bible, the Queen James version. Around that same time, more or less thereabouts, super-celeb Fantasia Barrino, a talent contest winner who went on to huge stardom, made a...
Do You Have A Hate Group In Your Community?
Did you know there has been a major increase in the number of hate groups since President Barak Obama has been elected? Let's see how about 800% according to some groups that are recording this type of internal chaos. Who are these people? The President appointed a...
Finding Your Calling w/Rapper Que
“When I’m in my artistic zone, I can’t hear or see anything except what I’m trying to put on the paper. It’s like I go in a trance!” -Aaliyah Anderson, from the forthcoming young adult novel “The Diary of Aaliyah Anderson” A couple of months back, I uploaded the most...
