Last week Johnson Publishing Company, the Chicago based entity that has printed Ebony and JET magazines for the last sixty plus years made a big announcement: JET was going digital.  The printed pocket-sized weekly digest for Black America is no longer; the brand has phased into offering daily online content instead, available at JETmag.com. But the big […]

For iPhone:  04/14/14 – Roland Martin is tired of the pissing match going on between black America. “How is it that we have the ability…

BHM

As I contemplated my message to you for our celebration of Black History Month, the riff, melody and lyrics of James Brown’s “I’m Black and I’m Proud” song constantly came tomind. While the line “Say it loud, I’m black and I’m proud” is pretty clear, in 1968 it was a fresh and welcome message of a […]

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Black people everywhere are in an uproar and have something to say about the two white men in L.A. who called singer Whitney Houston a “crack ho” on the radio.   Most have never heard of John and Ken, but there are talks in Los Angeles about having a Day of Protest against the show and […]

We’ve all expressed our opinions, vented, aired it out, and in my heart of hearts, no matter how we got to this point, I believe most of us share a common goal – to re-elect President Obama. http://www.blackamericaweb.com/?q=blog_inner/30402/1573138/The Fly Jock