With the return of Spring, you might already hear your fellow Black employees discussing and deliberating when they will break-out their grills to throw these All-American outdoor events. With BBQ, loud music, and the probability of kicking it with good friends you haven’t seen in a while, the Cookout is most loved for its […]

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Photo: NJ.com
Black People Love Lebron, but I don’t think they’ll like this cover. I guess Anna Wintour found out there are other black men besides Andre Leon Talley. LOL! Ok, I thought it was just me until I checked a couple other blogs and did a Google search. Lot’s of folks […]

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Whether it was the glass top coffee table, end tables, or the glass dining room table, everybody had that one relative (or WAS the relative) with one of these home wreckers in the crib. You can also name the sibling or cousin who got the lights beat out of them for accidentally breaking the […]

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I’ll admit that I’d never heard of the term Draptomania until I watched CSA: The Confederate States of America (If you’ve never heard of that movie, it’s a must see). Draptomania is an mental illness created by noted physician Louisiana Samuel A. Cartwright to explain why black slaves would run away from their owners. The […]

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Stuffed Animal Memorials are the Stuffed Animal “sculptures” you’ll see on street corners around urban neighborhoods dedicated to murdered children (and sometimes young adults). The practice of leaving items at a crime scene is something you’ll see in many cultures (think about all the pictures, flowers, and various items left at Buckingham palace in […]

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I wish I could track down the statistics on the African American presence in the show “American Idol”. I believe we would surely see a noticeably high trend. Since the jook joint days of shucking’ and jiving’ us black folks have been talent showin’ it up. The truth of the matter is we love contests: […]

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Black people love and support their family members who are addicted to drugs (chronic drug users) in a way that is very unique.  We do not celebrate or encourage the addiction (We do Kinda celebrate it in the case of weed, but that’s another post for another day), we work to encourage the person. There is […]

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Oh, if I had a dime for every home, flea market, African American heritage festival, and church that I’ve seen this image or similar images in…I’d be wealthy. Very, very wealthy.
Black people love Black Jesus. This might be better stated as “Black people who love Jesus love Black Jesus”, but I don’t have […]

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By: Autumn
Since our early days, as Nubians, here on planet earth, Black (of African Origin) people have been finding new ways to raise their fists in revolt. There is nothing we love more than joining elbows and belting out “We Shall Overcome”. Though most times we have raised the revolution for good cause, there are […]

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What is Black culture on the internet?
When you do a search for “Black culture” on Yahoo or Google, what do you find? Dissertations on Negritude? Ponderings on the state of Pan-African relations? Yes. At times you will find research, links to repositories of Afrocentricity, and all things historic and academic. […]

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