How many times have you, Black Person, gone to a cookout, dinner party, fish fry, church picnic, family reunion or other food-related gathering and taken home a plate of goodies covered and/or wrapped in what? Yes, aluminum foil (sometimes called “luminum foawl”). I’ve heard some of the best African American cooks I know lament that, […]

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“Going to the left, going to the right…bus stop, do the bus stop…are you ready….to do the bus stop.”
Black people love doing line dances.  This morning we got a comment from G-Slyce saying, “Black people love dancing in public and doing line dances at white people clubs because they are the only ones who know […]

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I live in a major metro area that has recently seen a lot of gentrification. A whole lot of it! So when I’m walking through some of the historically black neighborhood in the former hood and see remodeled houses with open windows, no blinds and curtains drawn, in the middle of the night…I always assume […]

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