Financial literacy workshop series helps college students master saving and control spending. Published in Wire Tap Magazine. (This story originally appeared on Black College Wire ) When he was 18, John Hope Bryant spent six months homeless. He lived in his car until he could find another place to l...

The Hilton family could probably hire Blackwater, a.k.a. Xe, to clear the ground and run the entire country as a resort. Cuban cigar tobacco grows fine there. Before I use my full days' allotment of sarcasm, I yield the floor to the NY Times Editorial Board. Haiti’s Despair, Continued The Departme...

There are many people in the world who are blind or live with less enabled visibility. And these people see with their hands, their nose and ears. Today we experienced a group from Germany which had a 'blind date' with our prickly plants. For both; the tour operator and us it was a new experience an...

When Irene Pepperberg said goodnight to Alex, her famous African Grey Parrot, he replied "You be good, see you tomorrow. I love you." Next morning, she found him dead in his cage. He was 31, and apparently died of atherosclerosis. (African Greys can live to 50.) Although parrots are known to be smar...

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Lesbian reporter Karen Ocamb has an interesting piece up at Bilerico.com called "Tavis Smiley's Big Day Without Gays" where she asks where were the Black LGBT people at Tavis Smiley's State of the Black Union conference held at the Los Angeles Convention Center last week? So this year's SOTBU promot...

Chris Brown appeared in a LA court today to answer two felony charges stemming from his assault of Rihanna. He was granted a continuance postponing his arraignment until April 6th.  He didn’t enter a plea either. Posted in crimes, current news analysis, health issues, messed up stuff, Race, S...

Brown will be arraigned today at 3.30pm Posted in crimes, current news analysis, health issues, international issues, messed up stuff, Race, Social issues Tagged: african american males and violence, black men, black superstars, chris brown and rihana, chris brown and rihanna, chris brown charged, d...

    First Michael Steele, GOP Chairman , thought he was a bad a#@ by calling Rush Limbaugh ’ugly’ and an entertainer . Then Limbaugh called him out  and instead of holding firm as a good leader should or is expected to do particularly when he’s right he ran to Limbaugh with...

by Guest Contributor Highjive, originally published at MultiCultClassics Change has come to America. But it took a detour around Madison Avenue. While citizens have adopted phrases like “post-racial,� the advertising industry operates in a pre-Civil Rights time warp. Whenever the topics of diver...