The Black Informant | African American Commentary, News and Community Building

I just came across this blog last night and thought it would be worth mentioning here. I will also add it to my blogroll under “Beyond the Mountaintop – Our Progress”.
[link]

Sphere: Related Content

Any of my Philly folk remember this store?
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gu56WdkNNF0]
This was one of those men’s clothing stores back in the day where you could buy a suit, overcoat with shirt for about $150 (yeah, I was really that bad when it came to clothes).
On Easter you could not tell me nuttin.
By next Easter I was back in [...]

(newhavenindependent.org) Nearly 100 African-American, Latino, and Orthodox Jewish men followed Bishop T.L. Brooks through four violence-plagued blocks in Newhallville, and called on the community to put their heads together to find a way to stop the gunfire throughout the city.
“I am charging all you men here with the responsibility of reaching out to these young [...]

(Reuters Life!) – Forget the handsome face, broad shoulders or flirty grin, a deep voice is what attracts women and makes men likely to have more children, researchers said on Tuesday.
“We think it’s sort of like a peacock’s tail,” said David Feinberg, an assistant professor at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada.
“A peacock’s tail doesn’t help [...]

NEW YORK (AP) — The ball Barry Bonds hit for his record-breaking 756th home run will be branded with an asterisk and sent to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Fashion designer Marc Ecko, who bought the ball in an online auction, set up a Web site for fans to vote on the ball’s fate, and Wednesday [...]

(AllAfrica.com/ipsnews.net) Every night besides the town hall of Athens, next to Omonia square, where the narrow streets of the popular entertainment hub district Psirris begin, black girls from Nigeria gather to work.
Dressed provocatively, they approach people who pass by and offer their services. “Come on baby I know you want me”, you hear one say [...]

Todd Lewan of the Associated Press the other day did a story on the Jena situation that clarified some of the misinformation surrounding the case. I first heard about some of this information by way of a fellow blogger pointing me to a piece written by Jason Whitlock who mentioned some of these findings in [...]