by emctab | Sep 16, 2012 | Community, From BW Writes, Women
Over the past few weeks Zoe Saldana has been thrust into the spotlight in a negative manner due to the fact that she was cast in a movie to play Nina Simone. Through no fault of her own, a debate is brewing across the web about how she (a light skinned mixed...
by emctab | Aug 9, 2012 | Community, From BW Writes, Politics, Women
After seeing so many post over the past week or so concerning Black women and “good hair” and beauty, I decide to post this from The Pawn Queen. A chapter from The Pawn Queen This thought pattern was the direct result of the first interracial children...
by emctab | Aug 1, 2012 | Community, From BW Writes, Men, Politics, Religion, Women
Disclaimer: I don’t like Chick-Fil-A anyway! If you’re boycotting Chick-Fil-A because of the bigoted Christian views of its founder then you really need to get some better business in your life, seriously! I’ve seen so many people over the past week or so claim...
by emctab | Jul 8, 2012 | Community, From BW Writes, Men, Politics, Women
Grover Norquist, The 5 Conservative Supreme Court Justices, The Koch Brothers, Sheldon Adelson, and everyone over at Faux News that have campaigned tirelessly to get Citizens United on the books as a law are really loving what’s being done by Mitt Romney right now. It...
by emctab | Jul 6, 2012 | Community, From BW Writes, Men, Religion, Women
After reading a post on FB this morning about Black Churches collecting $3 billion in tithes every Sunday I decided to do a little research. I already knew that Black Churches collect a lot of money on Sunday’s but $3 billion seemed a bit outlandish. After a quick...
by emctab | Jul 5, 2012 | Children, Community, From BW Writes, Uncategorized, Women
Chapter from The Pawn Queen! BLK (Before Lil Kim) women in hip hop were uplifting the Black female with their lyrics. Most of the female emcees BLK were women of distinction and were a part of the Black power hip hop movements of the 80’s. You had women like Mc Lyte,...