By:  Lynn Green  Picture of the Harpers from AJC newspaper Have you ever heard the proverb, “Money in the hands of a fool is soon departed”? Well it is indeed true. That parable comes from a scripture in the bible. Most of you are familiar with the show, Extreme Makeover. Back in 2005 the Harper family won an extreme makeover home, beating out 15,000 applicants. In addition, they were given enough money to pay taxes on it for 25 years. These people were on easy street. All they had to do was... Read Full Story

Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away (Luke 21:33) More than 1,600 years after it was written in Greek, one of the oldest copies of the Bible will become globally accessible online for the first time this week. From Thursday, sections of the Codex Sinaiticus, which contains the oldest complete New Testament, will be available on the Internet, said the University of Leipzig, one of the four curators of the ancient text worldwide. High resolution images of the... Read Full Story

The Bad News A convicted spammer and his wife, who were being sought after she helped him escape prison, were found slain along with their young daughter Thursday in an apparent murder-suicide, authorities said. A teenage girl was shot in the neck and a baby was found unhurt in a car seat inside the vehicle where the three bodies were found, Arapahoe County undersheriff Mark Campbell said. The relationship between the girl, baby and the escaped convict wasn’t immediately clear. The bodies of... Read Full Story

By:  Lynn Green   Hicktown’s “favorite” mayor—Detroit’s lustful, womanizing Kwame Kilpatrick, is still performing his carnival act. You all know that he was recently booed by the people of Detroit, who have finally tired of his antics and ego. Well there is more news on this carnival clown who refuses to give up the ghost of mayorship. By now you may have heard about him  allegedly pushing an officer and getting lambasted by a judge! A Detroit judge struck down the terms of Detroit Mayor... Read Full Story

By:  Lynn Green I am very sorry to report that Randy Pausch has passed away. I wrote about him HERE. Again, HERE is his “Last Lecture” which will inspire you to no end! Enjoy and may he rest in peace.   Read Full Story

By:  Lynn Green Bad news from the gospel community. Michael Cook of the group, Mighty Clouds of Joy passed away on July 18th. Death has visited the gospel industry once again. Michael Cook, one of the most distinct voices in the legendary Mighty Clouds of Joy died Friday, July 18 from a massive heart attack. A family friend said he fell all of a sudden during a conversation while he was visiting in-laws in Maryland. His son came to his rescue but he never regained consciousness. Cook was a... Read Full Story

by Deputy Diva      I came across this story earlier and even read it on Blackpoliticalthought’s blog. This is indeed a sad story about a family caught up in the foreclosure crisis, which both Lynn and myself have previously blogged about. Carlene Balderrama, a 53-year-old wife and mother, fatally shot herself with her husband’s gun 90 minutes before their home was scheduled to be auctioned off. Police say that Balderrama fatally shot herself Tuesday afternoon, 90 minutes before her... Read Full Story

By:  Lynn Green I’ve been following, as much as possible, Soledad O’Brien’s special on black America. I hope she wins an Emmy for that, as it’s superb. My husband just sent me an article about a woman who was highlighted in the special. Maryann Reid is making it her business to encourage a return to marriage in the black community. I LOVE it. What this woman is doing and what Soledad is doing far exceeds what Tavis Smiley is doing. His State of the Black Union nonsense renders nothing. It’s... Read Full Story

By:  Lynn Green   Do you all remember the “Youtube Divorce Lady”? Of course you do. Sometimes I will immediately highlight an attention whore. But if I’m dealing with an “off the hook”, “first class” attention whore, I’ll purposely hold off before highlighting them here and giving them more of what they crave—attention. Well, I am happy to report that Trishia Walsh-Smith, who humiliated her husband via her series of YouTube videos, has lost her case and lost in her attempt to clean out the... Read Full Story

By:  Lynn Green Nas has been on my “X” list since that fiasco with him trying to name his album “Nigger”.  He sank deeper into my list when I heard him supporting “no snitching”. I’m happy to see him confronting “Sly Fox”…that is, Black America’s enemy station Faux News….um, I mean “Fox News”. And I’d be even happier to see him confronting his fellow rappers for their disrespect of women, particular black women via their filthy names. Furthermore, I’d like to see Nas speak out against “no... Read Full Story