ON: THE OSCAR’S…Two of my picks won, SPOTLIGHT and THE ROOM. Yay!! But…I guess I missed on my third one. Or, maybe the Oscar’s missed??? And maybe it’s these sorts of misses that lay at the heart of the Oscar ‘blacklash’? So then, what was this third pick of mine? Are you sitting down? STRAIGHT…

It hurts to realize you’ve been lied to, taken advantage of…betrayed. It hurts all the more when it’s at the hands of one of your own. In this instance I mean another African American Woman–one who claimed to be a champion of “Re-emerging Women Writers Over 40.” I have thought and prayed long and hard…

Last Saturday I was out with friends at B. Cafe. I had 2 friends of Euro descent (white), along with 2 friends of African descent (black). My white friends were through the roof because they had just seen the DAVE CHAPPELLE/ERYKA BADU concert at Radio City, and proclaimed it the “best show they’d ever seen!”…