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In case you missed it: Tyler Perry’s NAACP Award Acceptance Speech (Video)

As a writer and a filmmaker, I am inspired by Tyler’s abilities to make the kind of plays and films that he wants to make. He has opened doors that others have said were closed. For that alone, he inspires me. Writing is a lonely life. You spend hours and hours alone with your pen [...]

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Tags: naacp image awards, Tyler Perry

Get ‘em Reading: Youth Book Suggestions For Black History Month

In talking to one of my professors from Hampton who suggested books for my daughter to read for Black History Month, I decided to come up with a list of books that youth should read for this month. This is a list that I believe young people of all races should read. This is a [...]

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Tags: Alice Walker, Antwone Fisher, Carter G. Woodson, Dick Gregory, Johnnie L. Cochran, Jr., lois benjamin, Malcolm X, Maya Angelou, Sharon G. Flake, Steve Perry, Walter Dean Myers, WEB DuBois, Yasmin Shiraz, youth reading book list

Black History Month Spotlight: WEB DuBois 1st Black to earn PhD from Harvard

In honor of Black History Month and for my sheer love of sociology, I want to give a birthday shout out to WEB DuBois, one of the most prominent intellectual leaders and activists of the 1st half of the twenti-first century and of course, a sociologist. He is well known as the author of his [...]

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Tags: black history month, lois benjamin, sociologist, sociology, the black elite, the philadelphia negro, the souls of black folk, WEB DuBois

Youth Excellence: Why the loss of desire?

The last five days have been some of the hardest days of my life. I try to be an empowering and connected parent and when my daughter brought home some unsatisfactory grades, I was like totally not getting it. She told me how hard her classes are and how the teachers are wack but when [...]

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Tags: excellence, mediocrity, tom krieglstein

NC Black Film Festival: Here, we come! (Video)

Can She Be Saved? is an official selection of the 2010 NC Black Film Festival and I will be receiving their Emerging Filmmaker award. I wanna say thank you again to everyone who has supported the film and my work as a filmmaker. I can’t wait to see my new filmmaker family when I get [...]

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Tags: can she be saved? trailer, Emerging filmmaker award, nc black film festival

See A Clip: Beyonce on the Tyra show (Video)

Its hard to be a R&B superstar, actress, cultural icon, but Beyonce is showing more and more how much she has it all together. I love her energy and her talent. And you know I got love for Ms. Banks, too. But I must say if Beyonce and Jay-Z are, in fact, married, why should [...]

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Tags: beyonce, tyra banks show

Thanks to all FJCCSGA students & advisors

I had the time of my life on this past Friday giving the keynote for the opening night at the FJCCSGA conference in St. Petersburg, FL. My topic of the evening was “One Shot.” In my speech, I shared with the audience that you often get one shot to make something happen for yourself, one [...]

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Politics of Hip Hop Culture Day 2: Women turned off by crotch shots!

On day two of my Politics of Hip Hop Culture tour I discovered that college women are turned off by the open crotch shots ie (Lil Kim and Nikki Minaj.) When I asked men if they liked the photos, of course they said yeah. But it still wouldn’t make them buy the album. They would [...]

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Tags: nikki minaj, politics of hip hop culture

Pretty Girls by Wale: My Favorite Song Right Now (Video)

Anyone who rides in the car with me now knows how crazy I get when I here Pretty Girls by Wale. I’ve loved the song since I first heard it. I don’t know if its the infectious hook, or his laid back rhyme style. Whatever the case, here’s the video. So now I get to [...]

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Tags: pretty girls, wale

Color for New Moon? Yup, it’s called Dark Moon (Video)

Life is hard sometimes and we could all use a laugh. So check out this Dark Moon clip. Its funny! Dark Moon from Brandon T Jackson

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Moesha Actress Shar Jackson on Celeb Fit Club (Video)

I think reality shows have their place but it seems that sometimes reality tv exploits people too much. Some of you will argue that people allow themselves to be exploited but at the same time, what ever happened to good taste????? Shar Jackson, the actress who is mostly known for her role in Moesha and [...]

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Lil Wayne’s Sentencing Delayed to March 2

Lil Wayne will not start his prison sentence today. According to Rolling Stone magazine, his sentence was delayed for dental surgery. I guess he had to get all of those diamond fronts removed from his mouth cause you can’t hardly go to prison with those things in.