Black Intel

During the discussion, Hughley said, “When you look at the prevalence of HIV in the African-American community, it’s primarily young women who are getting it from men who are on the down low.”

So a little after 9:00pm est, twitter, facebook and blogs bubbled over with information all about the man of the hour…Raul Gonzalez Blanco… ok, ok, Lebron James….Seconds after his announcement, twitter went hot full of jokes i.e. I’m gonna watch #lebrondecision tonite just in case Kanye interrupts to remind us that Jordan was the best basketball player ever

Now let me be clear here, I do not, absolutely do not condone violence against women… However I think Jay Z got some nerve ridding on Chris Brown. I think CB learned his lesson both financially and morally. It might of took a minute for it to sink in, but he was “brought to justice”… now lets look at Jay Z…. this man moli-whopped a female in the face

What I can not understand, however, is a woman shouting from the rooftops that her man must be willing to take out her cornrows, oil her scalp, and help her wash her hair or her wig.

Anderson Cooper interviews children about how they feel about skin color and perceptions.

In response to recent racist and homophobic incidents on multiple University of California campuses, school administrators have proposed changes in admissions policies to boost enrollment of minorities, the Los Angeles Times reports.

So Tiger makes a return to golf and the advertising world all in one week. Below is the Today Show’s report on the commercial and the uproar…but I’m a little more concern that Tiger is playing at a golf course that doesn’t allow women more than the actual commercial. What are ya’ll thoughts?

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“She took the material she was given and she worked it,” Malveaux writes. “She made Mary Jones a repulsive character with absolutely no redeeming social value. I am simply frustrated that these are the only kinds of roles that Hollywood offers African-American women, the only kinds of roles that Oscar chooses to lift up. I am frustrated that some may consider Mary Jones’ bestiality as typical, not atypical of African-American women.”

A strikingly high 42 percent of black adults have never been married, compared with just 26 percent of all American adults.

So I don’t know if anyone saw the oscars last night, however it seemed that a mic stealing moment happened ( video below). This time though, it was an older white woman who stole the mic from a Black man. So now comes the next day…and I’m waiting for the fireworks…..But there seems to be little outrage for this moment…No president saying that the woman was an idiot, no vilifying in the media of the woman’s unsavory behavior, nada. So I ask the question to ya’ll readers out in web land, do you think there is a double standard out there in the Hollywood world or was this a situation different than what happen with “Ye?