L ‘Shanah Tovah!

Can you imagine the reaction if Barack Obama had said "I have to suspend my campaign because the economy is in a complete mess, although less than 10 days ago I did promise the American public that the "fundamentals" of our economy were strong. And I can’t debate right now and my Vice Presidential pick [...]

Right on. Way to get back to hope.

Hat Tip to Jill of “Writes like she Talks”.

For the next couple of weeks, posts may be coming a little slower than usual because I am in a push to get a whole host of things accomplished offline. Volunteering, developing my business, tending to home, taking care of my body and connecting with loved ones, are all activities keeping me especially busy right [...]

In what will come as small surprise to anyone reading the comment threads on anti-racist sites or wondering why Barack Obama is having so much trouble with white, working class Democratic voters, a breakthrough Associated Press-Yahoo study says that "one-third of white Democrats harbor negative views toward blacks-many calling them "lazy," "violent" or responsible for [...]

My fellow Afrospear blogger, activist D. Yobachi Boswell, has started a chain I want to continue over here. In his post “A little help can go a long way”, he puts it like this:
I’ve been telling you the last couple of weeks about the absolute devastation in Haiti from being hit by 4 tropical storms [...]

In my biased opinion this ‘News and Notes’ segment is well worth listening to. I was on with Kevin Bass, former Superior Court judge, entrepreneur and active Republican supporting Barack Obama; and Marc Lamont Hill, Temple University professor, speaker and Fox contributor.
Our first topic: Does Sarah Pallin care about diversity? Then we moved on [...]

After a close call with jury duty, I will be joining Farai Chideya on NPR’s “News and Notes”.
As always, I will publish an audio link here as soon as it becomes available.

It’s a start! Please share your thoughts.

It’s official. I am over my “ooh, don’t look at me” jitters. Thank you for your support.
I shot my video. Spent 2 and-a-half hours figuring out how to use Windows Movie Maker software and then another hour editing my 1 minute and 50 second piece.
And just as I prepared to save it “to the [...]

So, I’ve got my camera and know how to work it. I’ve written my script.
What’s come up for me in this Vlog experiment, is my own anxiety about putting my “self”, my “face” out there. I love having authority and having some sense of control. (I know it’s an illusion so that’s why I used [...]

As I listened to Barack Obama’s acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention, this is the line that most resonated with me:
You make a big election about small things.

It was such a clear and true observation. It rings in my head still. I’ve found my heart screaming at the so called “journalists” lately. Watching as [...]

Sure, I know, I know the Dems do the same thing. But it’s still funny.

Senator John McCain accepted his party’s nomination with an unusually personal speech that chronicled his harrowing time as a POW and featured the word "change" more than ten times. Has McCain abandoned his ‘Straight Talk Express’ to grab onto the caboose of the ‘Change’ train?
I fight to restore the pride and principles of our party. [...]

"Red Meat" is a term political insiders use to describe a speech intended primarily to fire up a party’s already committed supporters. Republican Vice-Presidential nominee, Sarah Palin, served up the "red meat" bloody and in big slabs during her acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention. She started off straightforward enough:
I accept the call [...]