Black Intel

Black guys use it all the time. Turn on HBO and listen to a black comic, and all you hear is n****, n*****, n*****. I don’t get it. If anybody without enough melanin says it, it’s a horrible thing. But when black people say it, it’s affectionate. It’s very confusing.

Last week The Atlanta Post reported that there were 13 top selling Black Authors that readers may not agree with as the best representation of the genre but that these 13 authors were some of the best selling black authors over the last five years.

herrod, 62, told the paper the short clip left out the rest of the story, when she says she eventually worked with the farmer to help him avoid foreclosure, and became friendly with him and his wife. At the time, Sherrod worked with the Georgia field office for the Federation of Southern Cooperative/Land Assistance Fund.

With all the coverage of Lebron James decision, the Oscar Grant cased just slipped into media obscurity with out much more than a peep. Former BART police officer Johannes Mehserle was found guilty of involuntary man slaughter, the charge packing the least amount of heat.

We have stricter regulations on the things that don’t matter nearly as much. Why is there no “responsible age” for having sex and raising a child, when restrictions could be key in eliminating teen pregnancy, and hopefully over time, decrease the transmission of STDs, and HIV/AIDS?

Lets instill the values that were, and were not given to us in our children so they do not go through the same situations that we did. Lets allow our kids to be KIDS. But we cant do that, until WE start acting like adults.

This deadly mix explains why a Black woman, for example, who doesn’t “sleep around” might contract HIV, while someone else engaged in frequent episodes of unprotected sex might not become infected. “In some areas of Chicago, she would be very likely to come into contact with someone who is infected,” Dr. Paik says. “

By: James Harris
One of the most anticipated albums in years drops tomorrow June 15, 2010.  Drake releases his first studio album, Thank Me Later, and as I predicted the critics have gone on a rampage.  There are mixed reviews over the album some saying that it has “let them down” or that it “didn’t own [...]

“What is an unemployed guy doing paying $10,000 to run for the United States Senate? That just doesn’t add up,” Clyburn said of Greene, an unemployed military veteran who somehow came up with the $10,400 filing fee and decided to use it to mount an unlikely bid against conservative champion, Sen. Jim Demint. Greene ended up taking 59 percent of the vote despite his relative anonymity.

Now that we’re grown and have graduated, we can seriously ask “What the hell were all those unnecessary college courses for?” I mean for real, a journalism major taking micro economics. What was that class about anyway? If it wasn’t for my math genius best friend I would have NEVER passed. Can anyone tell me [...]