If you missed this morning’s Black Pearls for Parents, check it out right here and hopefully it is something that you can think about as we get another week underway.
There are a lot of people who face an enormous amount of challenges in our community and across this nation on a daily basis due to the economic climate and unemployment.
Well it’s Friday, the day we feature the “Battle of The Headliners”. This morning’s matchup is between Mint Condition and Tony Toni Tone.
If you missed this morning’s Black Pearls for Parents, check it out right here and hopefully it is something that you can think about this weekend as you spend time with your family.
On the eve of one of the most anticipated movies of the New Year that documents the truth about the heroic accomplishments of the Tuskegee airmen, we take a look behind the scenes of the official Hollywood premiere where all of the men of “Red Tails” were in attendance.
The birth of Beyonce and Jay-Z’s daughter has definitely got people talking, so much so that there are people starting facebook pages like: ‘are you tired of hearing about Blue Ivy’?
This week’s “Bonus Beats Thursday Remake/Retake features the song “Love Don’t Love Nobody” by the Spinners. Released in 1974 “Love Don’t Love Nobody” reached as high as #4 on the Billboard R&B Chart.
Now in 1995 Phil Perry the former member of the group the Montclairs covered “Love Don’t Love Nobody” and although it did not have much success on the charts, it was and is still one of the most
TOPIC:
How Do We Take Back Our Community?
OVERVIEW:
A “community” is a body of people that have common history, common language, common desires and common pains. At one time we were a community…even after the worst days of slavery, even after coming out of severe brutality, deprivation, and being made to believe that we were less than human chattel. But we never did to each other what we’re doing
As you know we have a topic of discussion each and every Wednesday on “Know Thyself Community Wednesday”. Topics can be about just anything from: politics, the dumbing (sic) down of America, to Beyonce having a baby.
There is an elementary school in Georgia that has chosen to use “slave” and “slave beatings” in its math word problems and the parents of the students are outraged not only because of the use of this very sensitive subject, but because how the school district has responded to it!
This morning on the “Battle of the Headliners” between the late Aaliyah and Keyshia Cole it was not even close. In fact, at first I was thinking that the votes that we were receiving were sympathy votes for Aaliyah but it turns out that the votes were really genuine and these were die-hard fans of Aaliyah; now Keyshia Cole on the other hand, did not receive nowhere near the love that Aaliyah did