Just in case you were actually working today, and missed seeing it live…

The Detroit Two have announced plans to publish and distribute digital copies of The Detroit News, and The Detroit Free Press in response to the economic downturn, and reduced print readership. Both papers will publish in print 3 days/week only – including the Sunday news, which is good news to readers who enjoy leafing through their paper on Sunday morning w\a hot cup of coffee. A monthly digital subscription will cost $12.95.month.

Of course, with progress comes a downside. Layoffs are imminent, paperboys will become nearly extinct, and our homebound seniors without digital access will not be happy. I stopped taking delivery of the Free Press years ago because I got tired of bundling up the papers, and throwing them out. Since then I’ve read my news exclusively online (except for Sundays). I’d bet thousands of readers do the same. Good move, Freep & Detroit News! I’m betting many other news outlets will follow your lead.

Thanks, Corey!

In elementary school & jr. high, girls and boys who looked like me  were “Negroes”. My grandparents referred to people who looked like me as “colored”. No disrespect intended – it’s just the way the world was back then.

Girls with “good hair” had their own clique. So did the girls with “bad hair”. Girls with “good hair” were chased home from school by the boys – they called it playing ”hide ‘n’ go get ‘em”. Girls like me were just teased. We used to sing this song in school – “Every boy can be President, of the United States, United States, United States – of America”, but nobody really thought it applied to the little colored boys. It was the white boy’s dream – not our boy’s dream.

I can clearly recall where I was when I heard President Kennedy had been assasinated. And when RFK was assasinated. And when Martin Luther King, jr. was assasinated. And when Malcolm X was assasinated. And I clearly remember the ’67 riots. These were all re-defining moments of a little colored girl’s childhood. Signs of the times (shoutout to Prince).

Election Day ’08 is that type of moment for todays’ little Black kids. On November 4th, 2008, America showed her true colors, and elected a Black man to her highest office – making millions of people proud beyond words. And I’m not embarassed to sing at the top of my lungs “Say It Loud – I’m Black & I’m Proud” (shoutout to JB). Because I truly am.

Sing with me. Yo know you want to…

Barack Obama has been elected the 44th President of the United States, becoming America’s 1st Black President. History has been made, people.

Kwame Kilpatrick showed his true strengths tonight by giving a very classy, very polished exit speech – speaking on his childhood mayoral dreams, and the duties of a public servant.

In this speech he gives us a glimpse of the potential Detroiters once saw in our new, young mayor. He was honest about his mistakes, apologetic, and encouraging to the citizens of Detroit in our efforts to move forward. THIS is the Kwame Kilpatrick I’ll miss – a charming, charismatic leader.  Kwame was brilliant! …until he attacked Gov. Granholm.

But he recovers quickly, offers his hand to the incoming mayor – Kenneth Cockrel, Jr., and touches on his many accomplishments during his mayoral tenure.

Nice job, Kwame. I just wish this speech could be your legacy.

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 *throws hands in the air, rocks left to right, then breaks out in the Earl Flynn [1]*  …n*gga, The King back. n*gga, you seen that? The King Back!

I’m about to turn over and go back to sleep, but I’m taking a quick minute to celebrate Tip’s #1 spot on the Billboard charts. U My Sista, Girl! has been on T.I.P. watch since his arrest, and I’ve been clowned by commenters on other blogs  because I said I was praying for Tip. But I’m an overcomer, so I believe in overcoming. Ask yourself – WWJD? lol!

For all the folks who looked forward predicted the demise of T.I.’s career, and a 20-yr. bid for him in Club Fed, I just want to take a minute to say – KING BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[1] just an innocent dance reference…