Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Talk That Talk
0Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Michael Vick: A Tale Of Redemption
0Monday, August 29, 2011
2011 MTV Video Music Awards
0Sunday, August 28, 2011
After The Storm
0Saturday, August 27, 2011
Act Like You Belong Here
0Friday, August 26, 2011
Hurricane Irene
0Thursday, August 25, 2011
Mirror Check
0Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Your Comfort Zone
0Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Your Roots
0Monday, August 22, 2011
A Brand New Day
0Sunday, August 21, 2011
The Power of Forgiveness
0Saturday, August 20, 2011
SpotLight: G-Money's "The Journey"
0Friday, August 19, 2011
Flash-Mob Thugs
0Thursday, August 18, 2011
Over There
0Wednesday, August 17, 2011
You Just Keep Living Long Enough..
0Tuesday, August 16, 2011
It's All About You
0Monday, August 15, 2011
Review: In The Flow With Affion Crockett
0Sunday, August 14, 2011
Keeping In Touch
0Saturday, August 13, 2011
Football Season Is Here
0Friday, August 12, 2011
The Urban Dictionary, Not So Urban At All
0Thursday, August 11, 2011
History Always Repeats Itself
0Wednesday, August 10, 2011
These Things Must Stop
1Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Defeated I Won't Be
1Monday, August 8, 2011
Wake Up: So Sad
0Sadly, in this day and age you would think that Americans are far beyond these types of inhuman racially charged crimes. I mean.. How could something like this happen? We have an African American president, African Americans are earning more and going farther in the corporate world as well as the political realm. So again I ask, how could something like this happen? How could kids, who have so much, harbor so much hatred?
Potential
0Sunday, August 7, 2011
Operation Me
0Saturday, August 6, 2011
Destination Unknown
0Friday, August 5, 2011
Change(s)
0Thursday, August 4, 2011
50 Things About President Obama; Happy B-Day Mr. Prez
0Check out the list.
1. He and Bill Cosby are the only people to ever get free food from Ben’s Chili Bowl.
2. He ate dog meat, snake meat, and roasted grasshopper when he lived in Indonesia.
3. He says his favorite children’s book is “Where the Wild Things Are.”
4. He owns a pair of boxing gloves signed by Muhammad Ali.
5. He collects Spider-Man and Conan the Barbarian comics.
6. He worked in a Baskin-Robbins ice cream shop as a teenager.
7. His favorite show is “The Wire.”
8. He majored in Political Science at Columbia University.
9. His father grew up herding goats.
10. He used to drive a Chrysler 300m.
11. He used the n-word in his audio book “Dreams From My Father.”
12. He watches HBO’s “Entourage.”
13. He was an avid reader of the “Autobiography Of Malcolm X.”
14. He owns several Bob Marley albums.
15. His first date with wife, Michelle Obama, was the movie “Do The Right Thing.”
16. He kept a pet ape called Tata while in Indonesia.
17. He applied to appear in a Black pin-up calendar while at Harvard, but was rejected by the all-female committee.
18. His favorite book is “Moby-Dick” by Herman Melville
19. His favorite movie is the “Godfather.”
20. His high school yearbook picture inscription thanks “Tut,” “Gramps,” and the “Choom Gang.” Choom is Hawaiian slang for “pot smoking.”
21. He has seven half-brothers and sisters in Kenya from his father’s other marriages.
22. He did a good imitation of Jesse Jackson while he was at Harvard.
23. His high school nick name was “O-bomber.”
24. He won a Grammy for his audio book “Dreams From My Father.”
25. He has read every Harry Potter book.
26. He was called Barry until he became known as Barack in college.
27. He was in the Columbia Black Student Union.
28. Jesse Jackson’s daughter is his daughter Malia’s godmother.
29. His favorite artist is Pablo Picasso.
30. He can bench press 200 pounds.
31. His name means blessed by God in Swahili.
32. He was the 5th African-American to serve in the U.S. Senate.
33. He enjoys rap artists The Fugees and Jay-Z.
34. He gets his hair cut once a week.
35. He says he would’ve been an architect if he wasn’t a politician.
36. He was on the Hawaii high school state basketball champion team.
37. He was mentored by Harvard Professor Charles Ogletree who was also the lawyer for rappers Tupac and Shyne.
38. He loves playing Scrabble.
39. His favorite president is Abraham Lincoln.
40. He traveled to Kenya in 1988 and met many of his paternal relatives.
41. His favorite meal is wife Michelle’s shrimp linguini.
42. His paternal grandfather was affiliated with the Kenyan revolutionary Mau Mau movement.
43. His maternal grandfather fought in World War II.
44. Some of his maternal ancestors were slave owners.
45. He moved to Chicago and worked as a director of the Developing Communities Project after college.
46. He has a beer named after him in Kenya.
47. He wrote a children’s book “Of Thee I Sing.”
48. His father attended Harvard University.
49. His first public speech was at Occidental College, calling for the school to disinvest from apartheid South Africa.
50. He graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard Law School.
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