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Archive for April, 2007

TRADE-OFFS

This weekend we had a ton of fun in honor of my boy’s fourth birthday, which is today by the way. We went to Lancaster, PA in search of a real live steam engine and boy did we find it! I felt like a little kid again when the the big black iron train came [...]

ET TU, RUSSELL SIMMONS?

Yesterday Russell Simmons came out publicly in support of banning the words h-word, b-word and n-word from hip-hop music. The black community, in my opinion, has much bigger things to worry about.  Removing three words from rap music will not solve poverty, crime, lack of education, lack of financial parity, self hate, prisons overpoulated with [...]