Sometimes You Will . . .

Be in this worldas if you are a traveler,
A passerby, with your clothesand shoes full of dust.
Sometimes you will situnder the shade of a tree,
Sometimes you will walk in the desert.
Be a passerby always,
for this world is not your home.

- Prophet Muhammad

Source: MysticSaint

The Dynasty 2.0

“The Lakers (41-17) maintained their one-game lead over the defending champion San Antonio Spurs for best record in the Western Conference, and lead Phoenix and New Orleans by two. Just 6 1/2 games separate the top nine teams in the West.”
Bring on the Celtics!

Friday Flashback

New Latino Wave Helps Revitalize Detroit

“A new wave of Latino immigrants is following others who established communities in northern cities in the 1950s after getting jobs in the auto and other manufacturing industries. The attraction now is employment in restaurants, shops and other service-oriented businesses that cater primarily to residents in those communities but also draw non-Latinos.
“A number of folks [...]

1 in 100 Americans Are In Jail

From The New York Times. . . For the first time in the nation’s history, more than one in 100 American adults is behind bars, according to a new report.
Incarceration rates are even higher for some groups. One in 36 Hispanic adults is behind bars, based on Justice Department figures for 2006. One in [...]

Is Janet Still Hot?

Or is she hopelessly over the hill? Honestly, she does nothing for me (J).

Letter To A Man

by Curtis Martin. Stolen from Denmark Vesey.

“A man’s relationship with his woman should resemble God’s relationship with that man. God knows you inside and out, yet He still loves you. Just think of how loving He is: His patience, His kindness, His guidance, His forgiveness, His grace and mercy… Now keep that thought [...]

Color Blind Casting

THEATER people have been talking for decades about James Earl Jones playing Big Daddy. The established white Southern setting of Tennessee Williams’s “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” notwithstanding, Mr. Jones, the barrel-chested actor with the inimitable basso profundo, strikes many as a natural fit for the foul-tempered, vulgar landowner. There was serious discussion about [...]

How To Deal With The Weight Issue

Black and Married with Kids responds to a reader’s query about the “weight issue.”

“Dear BMWK,
I am 29 and my bf is 29 and in the military. We are talking about marriage and he brought up a sensitive issue, weight. I am 5′8 and I wear a size 14/16, I put on weight [...]

The Root: To Denounce And Reject

“Bullying black leaders to represent the entire black race and to speak and think as one, while also treating every loud-mouthed, controversial black leader as if they represent the opinions, political views and personal aspirations of every black American, seemed to me to be a journalistic and political double-standard that was rarely, if ever, applied [...]