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According to reports, Chris Brown tried to force Rihanna out of his moving vehicle, slammed her face against the glass window, brutalized her face blow after blow, putting her into a headlock and biting her ear.' On top of that, he threatened to 'kill her,' choking her until she lost consciousness."
She stood up in tears as every eye looked on, stuck on her every word: 'My name is Marlo.' This one girl would change a laid back discussion on race, sponsored by Diversity Fellowship, scheduled to last one hour, into an intense two hour discussion."
This Valentine's Day, many of us will be trying to remember why we love our girl/boyfriend enough to write a romantic poem, while others of us are trying to forget that dirty, rotten, cheating no gooder who dumped us right before Valentine's Day just to get out of buying us a present. Whatever your case may be, I'm pretty sure there will be a soundtrack."
Julissa Veloz was dismissed from the show during group rounds Wednesday, when the two men in her group were put through to the next round.' Veloz, however, and the other woman in her group were sent home. She was shown crying as she left the theater. Pop culture seems to have landed on UT and refuses to leave."
Thomas Jefferson, Albert Einstein, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and Mark Twain. Those are five Americans off the top of my head that are not directly part of my lineage racially, but they are all part of my national lineage, my American heritage. Now if I were to ask for someone to switch it around and ask for five names of African American historical figures, could you do the same?"
' If you turn on your television right now, there's probably a show about beauty, idolizing beautiful celebrities or maybe a reality show searching for beauty. If you went to a magazine stand there's plenty of the same: big lips, big boobs, small waists, brown hair, blonde hair and light skin. I have pent up anger over these general standards of beauty and the effects they've had on women'mdash;and sometimes men'mdash;around our age range."
When my mother was a teenager in Memphis, Tennessee, my grandmother didn't allow her to go to the local store to shop for school clothes."
I don't want much for Christmas, but since you asked: I want an iPod, a Honda Civic with a customized paint job in candy apple red, that new Macbook, gift cards to Starbucks, Target, and maybe even Jim's Sporting goods (even if I haven't played a sport since 5th grade)."
Is it okay to say? Who can say it? Am I "cool" enough with my black friends to say it? Why is it okay for African Americans to say it to each other but nobody else can? Let me tell you something straight to the point, as clean cut as I can put it: I am African American; I do not think it is okay to use the n-word, I do not use it nor will I ever use that term to refer to any of my fellow African Americans for whom I have deep respect.
