I Wonder As I Wander (The Sista Nurse, ATL Edition)

I (J) took the family to visit C. Yates, Alex, Yani and Maceo in ATL for the 4th of July weekend.  The highlight of the weekend, of course, was C. Yates’ “surprise” engagement to Alex (he asked her Dad’s permission, like a good man should).  It was also nice to meet The (One and Only) Good [...]

Gabrielle Union Talks About Being Brutally Raped

“As a 19-year-old college student, she was raped at gunpoint and beaten beyond recognition during a night shift working at a Payless ShoeSource. “I blanked out and had an out-of-body experience, like I was hovering above seeing this horrible thing happen to someone else—not me,” says Gabrielle, who got through the trauma partly because of [...]

On The Road Again . . .

Big J is off to ATL to kick it with C. Yates, Yani and Maceo.  Rich is in South Africa.  We will post on July 3 and 5 as normal.

Dispatch from Jozi

This is the front page of the Daily Sun here in Jozi. You’ll never guess the message I (rich) found inside. Deceptively hidden in the sports pages, I spied the secret wish of all South African people.

That’s right!! At the bottom of the page. They need TSO in Jozi too!! I made it [...]

Why Do We Bling?

Because some of us have to show others we can. But not all of us feel that way. Erik Hurst and Kerwin Charles at the UNiversity of Chicago did a study on why and found some surprising conclusions.
In fact, Charles and Hurst found that between black communities in different locations, an individual [...]

Obama Reads TSO!!!

On Father’s day, Obama went to the other mega church on the southside of Chicago, Apostolic Church of God to deliver a speech denouncing absent father’s.  Obama told the crowd what we already know on the TSO–that fathers should be active in the child’s life and being a strong pillar for the family. Obama, whose [...]

Marriage Advice

J and I (rich) were recently discussing the travails of a married friend.  Although both of us admitted to not knowing much about this friend’s situation that led to their woes, J was not hesitant in providing suggestions. I was more hesitant since 1) I didn’t know the situation that led to the most recent [...]

Autism Activists

There is a growing number of people with Autism and Asperger Syndrome who are speaking out about their condition.  They are not advocating for a cure. They are advocating to accepted as who they are.
The first person to articulate the autism-rights position, Jim Sinclair, has produced only a few page-long essays. In his seminal invective, [...]

Summer Plans…

With the official start of summer drawing near, I (J) started the process of formulating my summer plans. Wifey and I are going up to Sonoma, Calif. in a few weeks for some R&R. The men in the family are taking in our annual trip to the bullfights in Tijuana in July. [...]

Louis Farrakhan: The Value of the Female

“What is the nature of the woman and what is the nature of the man? The Holy Qur’an says, “Men are the maintainers of women.” It is the natural role of a man to work hard and produce what is necessary to maintain a woman and the children that are produced from that woman. As [...]