http://intheblack.today.com African-American Opinion and Discussion Tue, 30 Dec 2008 05:41:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://intheblack.today.com/2008/12/30/what-christmas-means-to-me/ 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 ... http://intheblack.today.com/2008/12/06/president-elect-obama-black-in-the-white-house/ According to HOLBROOK MOHR of the Associated Press (Full Story), my absolute favorite actor has been injured in a car accident. Here is an excerpt from the article: "Oscar-winning actor Morgan Freeman is in a hospital in Memphis, Tenn., on Monday after being seriously injured in a car accident near ... http://intheblack.today.com/2008/08/04/news-morgan-freeman-is-injured-in-car-accident/ Alright, it’s been a little while since I wrote a new article and something I saw today really had me perplexed; I just had to write about the situation. People talk about minorities and the "Digital Divide," (where people don't have adequate access to technology to compete academically or professionally), ... http://intheblack.today.com/2008/07/29/new-cell-phone-not-so-fast/ 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 people staying in the cities has created a ... http://intheblack.today.com/2008/07/22/end-of-the-white-flight/ 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 people staying in the cities has created a ... http://intheblack.today.com/2008/07/21/end-of-the-white-flight-pt-i/ 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 ... http://intheblack.today.com/2008/07/19/hillary%e2%80%99s-hair-change-hair-theory-and-black-culture/  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. ... http://intheblack.today.com/2008/07/18/myspace-is-fantasy/ I’m not Timbaland or One Republic, but I will use the song as my mantra. My blog is geared to the conscious Black person who wants to make the right moves at the right times and avoid the mistakes that many of us don’t want to talk about. This blog ... http://intheblack.today.com/2008/07/17/2-late-2-apologize/ Go ahead, Google my name; you know you wanna. I started to title my Intro blog "Who I Be," but I'm thinking that would be too ghetto. I'll settle for the standard "About Me" and introduce myself... By no means am I rich. I don’t go on Tom Joyner cruises (yet) ... http://intheblack.today.com/2008/07/17/about-me-the-woman-behind-the-words/