Some weeks back during one of her national workshops, L.A.-based communications, public and 'authentic voice' speaking guru Norma Hollis asked me, "How should Black Americans relate to the rest of the African diaspora?" That's a heck of a good, hundred-dollar...
posted 1:54 pm at Marian's Blog
Not being there, I feel I'm missing out as Italia prepares to vote - again - on tomorrow and Monday. (Can't the U.S. take the hint about weekend elections?) Italy's current election situation seems sooo eerily deja-vu, like we've been...
posted 7:33 pm at Marian's Blog
To be honest the only real news about Dick Cheney and Barack Obama being related is that yet again we see a person from a different background is treated quite differently from we Black Americans. Just like the central yet...
posted 3:49 pm at Marian's Blog
What was unimaginable less than 48 hours ago has occurred. Democrats have won both the House and the Senate while Mr. Rumsfeld has been shown the District line. Sayonara, Don. I couldn't have said it better than David Gergen on...
posted 2:48 am at Marian's Blog
Italia's Francesco Totti put it away today at the World Cup. It may as well have been a photo-finish since for 94 minutes (and thus into overtime) neither team scored. Then, an Aussie stumble and some fancy Italian footwork handed...
posted 1:28 pm at Marian's Blog
Quick. Put your thinking cap on... This is not an Eddie Murphy movie about a continental African moving to the US. Forgive me for asking but is part of the message here that if you can't convert enough indigenous Blacks...
posted 4:13 pm at Marian's Blog
Quick. Put your thinking cap on... This is not Eddie Murphy's movie about a continental African coming to the USA. And what's the message here: if you can't persuade more indigenous US Blacks to 'go conservative' then import them? As...
posted 3:34 pm at Marian's Blog
Everybody's blogging this because it's so incredible. George Bush says his best moment since becoming president of the US was catching a fish. The fishing took place at his private lake in Texas. He told this to Bild am Sonntag...
posted 2:00 am at Marian's Blog
Barely a month ago George Bush pere (the daddy) told all of us how badly he felt for his boy George as Rev. Joseph Lowery and former president Jimmy Carter took W to task at Mrs. Coretta Scott King's funeral.Well,...
posted 7:00 am at Marian's Blog
Today's MSM news sounds like one of the chief talking points of Bush's state of the union speech was Americans are addicted to oil. I thought we'd realised that in the '70s. So I suppose in another 30 years Bush...
posted 8:34 am at Marian's Blog