African American Culture

Hip Hop highs: Long on lyrics, short on rehab
CNN News Wire
Mar 22 2013

Writer says most genres of music have dealt with drug issues

Lil Wayne is down on drugs — for others.

For himself, well, it’s a different story.

The man who infamously told Katie Couric during a 2009 interview “I’m a gangsta, Miss Katie. I don’t take nothing from no one. I do what I want to do,” has been equally outspoken about his use of “sizzurp” or “purple drank,” a prescription cough syrup made with a combination of promethazine and codeine.

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Black history versus Black myth-making, Part I
David L. Horne, Ph.D.  |   OW Contributing Columnist
Feb 14 2013

Practical Politics

During the 40 years or so of the modern evolution of the Black Studies movement in America’s colleges and universities, we have made major progress in research, writing, teaching and authorship. We have also sometimes accepted the stories we’ve been too often told as true without critical examination. In fact, there is much to be said for providing people who have most often been taught and told relentlessly that they have no worthwhile history and contributions that they actually have much, much more than anyone knows.

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Book Review: ‘The Courage to Hope’
Terri Schlichenmeyer
Sep 6 2012

Authors: Shirley Sherrod with Catherine Whitney

Some days, you get a little bit of exercise.

You hear a good story, and you pounce on it. You spin it to make it funny, bend the facts for more entertainment, and jump to conclusions to make it interesting. The truth might get stretched but when you’re running a good tale, who cares?

Someone does—especially if it’s about to ruin their life. In the new book “The Courage to Hope” by Shirley Sherrod, with Catherine Whitney, (c.2012, Atria, $24.99 / $28.99 Canada, 240 pages, includes notes) you’ll read about one such event.

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Raging against the dying of African American culture
David L. Horne, Ph.D.  |   OW Contributing Columnist
Aug 16 2012

Practical Politics

One sustaining strength of Black America has always been African American culture. As Black American culture goes, so goes Black people. Unfortunately, Black culture is dying a slow, tortuous death currently. What happened to those very effective devices we once had to transmit our own cultural strength to our offspring? Even though most of us think we know what’s not Black culture, and we’re very quick to point it out, listen to all the stammering when someone directly asks, just what exactly is Black American culture, anyway? Here’s an answer:

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Welcome to the Bazaar
OW Staff
Jun 21 2012

Leimert Park business honored

State Sen. Curren Price congratulates siblings Mary Kimbrough and Jackie Kimbrough Ryan, from left, as well as their brother Alden Kimbrough, who is not pictured, on their successful retail shop during California Small Business Day held recently in Sacramento. The three siblings have owned Leimert Park-based African-American-culture-themed store Zambezi Bazaar for more than 20 years.

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Across Black America

Here’s a look at African American people and issues making headlines throughout the country.
 

Alabama
Freeman A. Hrabowski, president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, will address the annual African American Business Council luncheon on June 28. Hrabowski, who is chairman of President Barack Obama’s Advisory Commission on Education Excellence for African Americans, has a national reputation for his work studying the performance of minority students in math and science. Hrabowski, named one of the 10 best college presidents in the country by Time magazine, was a child leader in the Civil Rights Movement in Birmingham in the 1960s.
 

Arkansas
The Liberty Counsel filed a motion and a brief in United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas seeking to intervene on behalf of a Concepts of Life crisis pregnancy center to defend against a suit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Reproductive Rights. The groups seek to impose a permanent injunction before the Human Heartbeat Protection Act goes into effect July 18. Liberty Counsel also filed a brief opposing the ACLU’s request for an injunction. The “Heartbeat” bill states that when a woman seeks an abortion at or after the 12th week, doctors must test for a fetal heartbeat before an abortion is performed and inform the pregnant mother that the child in her womb has a heartbeat. If a heartbeat is detected, a woman cannot have an abortion, except in cases of rape, incest, and if a mother’s life is in danger. “As we promised when the legislation was introduced, Liberty Counsel will defend this law without reservation for the people of Arkansas, born and pre-born,” said Matt Staver, founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel. “No right is more foundational than the right to life. Without life, all other rights are irrelevant,” concluded Staver.

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