Juripunek

I know many have abandoned Saturday Night Live with good reasons, including the show's decline in quality and its callous disregard to feature black actresses in the cast (though I hear one may b…

It goes without saying that the world is in deep mourning over the death of Nelson Mandela. Since I'm normally pretty locked away from the world when I'm at work, I didn't hear about his …

I am often surrounded by well-intentioned white people. My white friends are a collection of spirit centered hippies, activists, and social justice scholars. Most of them have studied race or at the …

This week Black women have been very vocal about the atrocities of male misogyny and racial bigotry on Twitter. It started with the hashtag #solidarityisforwhitewomen started by @karnythia  which s…

I will let out an unequivocal sigh before I begin writing this post.  Okay ready?  1...2...3... :::SIGH::: Now that I have released all of the carbon dioxide out of my lungs, allow me to elaborate on…

We live in a world where being ratchet is supposedly awesome. I'm here to tell you that it is not. Beating other people up because you can't control yourself is not a good look. I think it is…

So you wanna be a author? I know there are a few of you out there that do! Don’t lie! LOL Well, I’ve been writing professionally since I was 19, and let me tell you: Part of being a writer is learnin…

( I haven't written in a while, had to get this off of my chest, and I hope I'm not the only one outraged.)  I am so angry right now, with people. People in general, who don't see that th…

Warning: Rant follows... I don’t deal with politics.  I’m not interested in debating with anyone who should be president and why.  No one can convince me to vote for anybody other than the candidate …

Time to get personal again.  I'm 32 and I work full time working as a credit analyst for a wireless phone company.  My income could be a lot better for someone of my age, experience, and educatio…

A dear friend of mine emailed me this video and it stuck me so deeply, that I had to share it with each of you.  I'm a dog lover and own a rescue myself, so this video of a dog being rescued by H…

First of all I'm filing this post under the "Sadness" label because the TV soap opera has pretty much been laid to rest.  I think there are only a handful of daytime soaps on the air an…

News have been announced all over the world through our fast streaming information highway that Whitney Houston has died at the age of 48.  There has yet been a report released as to the cause of her…