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by Ree, the (Ree)lationship Guide This week, I told the ladies how you can identify the side chick – as a woman myself, I”ve often run into those sneaky wannabe friends who are creeping right in front of your face. She might be your best friend or that mysterious female friend that your man never Read More At Black Like Moi
In this video, Dr. Boyce Watkins and Yvette Carnell discuss the intense debate over gay marriage and the black church.
by Yvette Carnell Jay-Z rolls with the big boys and girls now, and, apparently, that’s who he wants to be in photos with. This is a lesson Jay-Z’s mentee Freeway learned the hard way when he was dismissed by Jay during a photo op for the Philly festival announcement yesterday
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by Yvette Carnell When President Obama announced his support for gay marriage, I wrote the following: I give Obama hell when he’s wrong, but today, he did the right thing. I would’ve been disappointed had he stuck to his “still evolving” position. That position was crafted to win the middle without alienating either side.
by Yvette Carnell No matter how opposed you are to President Obama’s policies up to this point, if you’re honest, you have to admit that today was a historic day in both Obama’s Presidency and in U.S. politics. Today, President Obama became the first sitting President to come out in favor of same sex marriage: “I have to tell you that over the course of several years as I have talked to friends and family and neighbors when I think about members of my own staff who are in incredibly committed monogamous relationships, same-sex relationships, who are raising kids together, when I think about those soldiers or airmen or marines or sailors who are out there fighting on my behalf and yet feel constrained, even now that Don’t Ask Don’t Tell is gone, because they are not able to commit themselves in a marriage, at a certain point I’ve just concluded that for me personally it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same sex couples should be able to get married,” said Obama.
A man in the U.S. tattooed his face with the ESPN logo because he wanted to appear on a popular TV program on the sports network
Just how unpopular is President Barack Obama in some parts of the country? Enough that a man in prison in Texas is getting 4 out of 10 votes in West Virginia’s Democratic presidential primary. The inmate, Keith Judd, is serving time at the Beaumont Federal CorrectionalInstitution in Texas for making threats at the University of New Mexico in 1999.
by Yvette Carnell In the lead up to the 2008 election, candidate Obama was a superstar.
“Don’t let a pregnancy ruin your drug habit,” the slogan on the fliers reads. Another says, “She has her daddy’s eyes…and her mommy’s heroin addiction.” Then: “Get birth control, get ca$h.” These are posters that show up nationwide in homeless shelters and methadone clinics, in AA and NA meeting rooms and near needle exchange programs, Read More At Black Like Moi
by Yvette Carnell So a group of family and friends claim they were locked inside a restaurant after refusing to tip the waitstaff. Jasmine Marks and her party apparently weren’t happy with the waiters’ responsiveness to their orders, and were taken aback when a 17 percent gratuity was added to their bill. So, of course, being the unseemly people that they are, Marks & crew went to the manager for help with knocking a few bucks off their bill.
President Obama spoke in Afghanistan of all places this week, ending a surprise visit to the country speaking about the possibility of ending the war and withdrawing the troops. The president has pledged to pull out 23,000 troops by the end of the summer, and the turn full authority over to the Afghan government.
by Yvette Carnell Up at the Awl, they’ve posted a nice little list, and it’s not the type of list you’re accustomed to reading on your ordinary run of the mill site. Not 10 ways to lose weight without dieting
In this video, Dr. Boyce Watkins and Yvette Carnell discuss whether or not there should be a demand for reparations for the failed war on drugs. The video is below
The estranged wife of former NBA superstar Allen Iverson is having no more of his antics. Tawanna Iverson claims that Allen has gotten out of control, threatening her and her family. As a result, she’s asking for court protection. Tawanna filed documents with the court, claiming that Allen “has engaged in increasingly contemptuous, threatening, and… Read More Read More At What The Ha-yell!
by Yvette Carnell Some critics would have us believe that all conservatives, even all black conservatives, have given George Zimmerman the benefit of the doubt in the murder of Trayvon Martin. This, of course, is the quickest way to draw a line through it, and, per chance, the quickest route to enlarge the cleave that currently exists between black conservatives and black liberals. The thing is, it’s just not true.
Deion Sanders has reportedly gotten into a physical altercation with his estranged wife, Pilar. The former NFL superstar tweeted “Pray for me and my kids now! They just witnessed their mother and a friend jump me in my room. She’s going to jail n I’m pressing charges!” TMZ is reporting that a police car and fire truck were outside the Sanders home in Dallas.
by Yvette Carnell Stanford prepares their students for success. No, not what you’re thinking .
In this video, Dr. Boyce Watkins and Yvette Carnell discuss the controversy surrounding Michael Bullerdick, the Managing Editor at Essence Magazine who was found to be a radical Right Wing Republican
by Yvette Carnell The Twitterverse is all abuzz about how there are no black main characters in HBO’s new series “Girls”. To answer the criticism, “Girls” writer Lesley Arfin tweeted, ”What really bothered me most about Precious was that there was no representation of ME.” Frankly, I don’t care much about Arfin, or what characters she does or doesn’t include in her snarky mashup
by Yvette Carnell Don’t look now, but President Obama wants you to believe that he’s the heir to the Civil Rights legacy. The same President who capitulated to the Tea Party during the debt deal negotiations, gave the banksters who blew up our economy a “get out of jail free” card, unilaterally froze federal salaries (of which 25% of workers are black), sat idly by while Republican governors gutted unions, and left Congressional Democrats hanging out to dry while trying to defend his muddled Affordable Care Act, wants you to believe that he’s not the Cowardly Lion from the Wizard of Oz. The black man who won’t lift a finger to help other black men wants us to believe that he, like Rosa Parks, has got your back.
