Fatherhood is one of the great concerns in our society today. Whether you believe in God or not, you need to watch this video by TD Jakes, “Five Things That Make A Man A Good Father”.
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In celebration of Black Music Month, Techbook Online Corporation®, Mr. Asa Khalif, Mr. Ogbonna Hagins and Mr. Gregory Walker., will participate an online discussion presented by Black And Bold Voices™ entitled Black Music And Its Impact On Black Leaders heard live today from 1 – 2 p.m. EST exclusively on The Dr. Vibe Show™ , 2012 Black Weblog Award Winner for Best International Blog. The discussion will be hosted by the CEO of Techbook Online, Christopher “Flood The Drummer” Norris.
Mr. Asa Khalif, founder of Racial Unity USA, has a long history of activism and has lent his voice to numerous high-profile issues and causes. Born and raised in Philadelphia, Mr. Khalif biggest success in the music industry may have been when he successful challenged local radio stations to pull former Philadelphia 76er, Allen Iverson’s rap C.D, “40 bars,” out of rotation because it degraded women.
Since 2008, Mr. Gregory Walker has managed, curated, and coordinated more than 350 art and culture programs in Philadelphia organized under the banner of The Brothers’ Network, an award-winning nonprofit organization he founded in 2006. Mr. Walker’s life’s work is to engage and form communities around high art and culture through dialogue, discourse and storytelling.
Mr. Ogbonna Hagins is the former publisher of Philly Word Live Magazine, a publication once considered the final say in Hip-Hop. An activist and former teacher, Mr. Hagins currently runs an international recycling business and is the father of two black male classic musicians.
Black And Bold Voices™, a quarterly, online town hall featuring black men around the world and the issues that unite them, is a collaboration between The Dr. Vibe Show, a podcast for black men and those that love them, and Techbook Online, a news event company that launched a campaign to improve media coverage and public perception of black men and boys.
All you need to listen to the conversation live is:
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The weariness, the rage, the depressing conviction that black life is stuck in a murderous loop fueled by racism — these emotions resounded in black America after the deadly shootings at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina. Click on the link below to read more.
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Jon Stewart of The Daily Show apologized to his audience tonight for not having any jokes for them, as he just dropped the comedy to get serious about Charleston. He said, “I honestly have nothing, other than just sadness.”
“By acknowledging it,” Stewart pointed out, “by staring into that and seeing it for what it is, we still won’t do jackshit. Yeah, that’s us. That’s the part that blows my mind.”
He contrasted how the U.S. does whatever it can to protect everyone from foreign threats, but has an “eh, what are you gonna do?” attitude to domestic threats.
Stewart brought up the racial wounds being opened in Charleston, especially invoking how South Carolina still flies the Confederate flag and has roads named for Confederate generals.
He sarcastically added, “And the white guy’s the one who feels like his country’s being taken away from him.”
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CNN’s live coverage of the Charleston church shooting was interrupted when a nearby woman walked into the shot and began screaming that white people were terrorists and President Barack Obama was an Uncle Tom.
Some of the nine victims of the Charleston, South Carolina church shooting were remembered as “positive” and “kind-hearted”. Click on the link below to read more.
As historian Baz Dreisinger shows, there are all sorts of reasons for white people to pass for black. Are some more defensible than others? Click on the link below to read more.
Blacks know what it’s like to be excluded, degraded, less valued, how welcome it is to be taken in and how good it feels to extend that hand. Click on the link below to read more.
Why is anyone debating what it means to be black because Rachel Dolezal is trying on blackness like a set of clothing? Click on the link below to read more.
