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December 30th, 2008 by Kamia LoL. I thought the title would play out as ironic… I remember being a little child and having to write a 1 or 2 page paper (wide-ruled, double-spaced) about “What Christmas Means to Me.” How proudly I told my teachers about the crafts we made out of construction paper- snowmen, little nativity scenes, a fat and jolly Santa. I was almost frantic at the thought of making a gingerbread man and decorating his sweet crunchy body with icings. Most of all, I... Read Full Story

December 6th, 2008 by Kamia Now that the campaign and election is over, will newly-elected President Obama be as “Black” as his campaign portrayed him to be? I hear so many people (Jon Stewart of the Daily Show and Steve Colbert of the Colbert Report) saying that racism is officially over because there is an African American in the White House. Two questions: is an African American a Black person (at heart), and do Black people REALLY consider PresE Obama one of “them?”  I know... Read Full Story

      Recent Posts New Cell Phone! Not So Fast… End of the White Flight - Pt II End of the White Flight - Pt I Hillary’s Hair Change: Hair Theory and Black Culture Recent Comments Archives August 2008 July 2008 Pages About Represent! Black Culture & Society A Hot Ghetto Mess DreadFixer One Brotha’s Mind Stuff Educated Black People Like Stuff Ghetto People Like- Blog The Black Woman Experience The Dark... Read Full Story

  Recent Posts End of the White Flight - Pt II End of the White Flight - Pt I Hillary’s Hair Change: Hair Theory and Black Culture Myspact ain’t Real Life Recent Comments Archives July 2008 Pages About Represent! Black Culture & Society A Hot Ghetto Mess One Brotha’s Mind Stuff Educated Black People Like Stuff Ghetto People Like- Blog The Black Woman Experience The Dark Prophet Your Black World Blogroll WordPress.com... Read Full Story

Recent update End of the White Flight - Pt I Hillary’s Hair Change: Hair Theory and Black Culture Myspact ain’t Real Life 2 Late 2 Apologize About Me July 22nd, 2008 by Kamia A recent Wall Street Journal article,  The End of the White Flight  (Conor Dougherty), cites that Black people have been moving out of cities and urban areas in droves. According to the article, the combination of Black people moving out of the city (into the suburbs) and White... Read Full Story

  Recent Posts Hillary’s Hair Change: Hair Theory and Black Culture Myspact ain’t Real Life 2 Late 2 Apologize About Me Recent Comments Archives July 2008 Pages About Represent! Black Culture & Society A Hot Ghetto Mess One Brotha’s Mind Stuff Educated Black People Like Stuff Ghetto People Like- Blog The Black Woman Experience The Dark Prophet Your Black World Blogroll WordPress.com WordPress.org College... Read Full Story

Wikizines are interactive magazines that anyone can create or edit - and this one is called "African American and Black Culture". Here you can find fresh voices and respond in real time. Some members write articles about recent news and trends related to the wikizine's topic, others recount relevant personal stories or share their favorite pictures and video clips. Got an interesting idea or story to share with other members of this wikizine? Well, then put on your journalist's cap and add... Read Full Story

Black women are versatile. We have a lot of hairstyle options available to us, but do Black women really have a choice? I was recently reading a mini-story HERE (full story HERE ) about hairstyle indicating a power status. Hillary Clinton has changed her hairstyle since she first began her campaign, and now supporters of ”hair theory” think it means that she is relinquishing her power- bowing out if you will- because she has changed her hair part from the left to the right.  Supposedly, if... Read Full Story

Black women are versatile. We have a lot of hairstyle options available to us, but do Black women really have a choice? I was recently reading a mini-story HERE (full story HERE ) about hairstyle indicating a power status. Hillary Clinton has changed her hairstyle since she first began her campaign, and now supporters of ”hair theory” think it means that she is relinquishing her power- bowing out if you will- because she has changed her hair part from the left to the right.  Supposedly, if... Read Full Story

Recent update Hillary’s Hair Change: Hair Theory and Black Culture 2 Late 2 Apologize About Me July 18th, 2008 by Kamia  I have had it up to about HERE with all this extra drama thatI hear about stemming from content posted on Myspace pages. In my humble opinion, that myspace is real only to a certain extent, and you have use common sense when deciding to believe the information or not. I mean, a 19-year-old guy with all these thick, half-naked models as his... Read Full Story