Yes, Superstar Top Dog Mr. Vicious Vick, should NOT be banned from the NFL! BUT; Racist White Supremacy & Superiority Sickness and hate disease must be banned off of the face of our revolving-rotating-evolving planetary sphere Mother Earth!!! Smile 'n lovin' faith always y'all dogs...http://www.originalcreativeartistchd.blogspot.com....[more]

BABA (Black American Basketball Association)

Picture this. The Black American Basketball Association has grand opened at the new coliseum downtown. The lines are long and the tickets are sold out. Three months ago was the BABA draft and Black colleges and high schools from all over the country jam packed for the tryouts. Recruiters visit Black schools and picked only the choice candidates, those who were, first of all, good at balling, and second those who maintained excellent GPA's.....[more]

GMN'S (Genetically Modified Negroes) are the new WMD'S
By M. Bennett Hooper

Genetically Modified Negroes are those Blacks who believe that the illusion of inclusion Allows them the practice of privileges enjoyed by culture controlling powers that they Hope to emulate via lifestyles of luxury cars, mini-mansions, designer clothes and champagne that vintners wish they would not advertise their consumption CRYSTAL rappers.....[more]

Negroes With Guns

Outspoken and Feared but Largely Forgotten
By Felicia R. Lee
Submission by T. Duffy

In Case You Missed It

"Negroes With Guns," a 1962 manifesto about a group battling the Klan and other white terrorists in Monroe, N.C., is still a compelling title. But the story of its author, Robert F. Williams, has gathered dust. Once one of the most feared men in the country, he was an architect of the modern black power movement and symbolized a century-long debate among blacks about the need to meet violence with violence....[more]

Use of the -N- Word Leads to Publication with I-Universe
Paula Toledo
E-mail: paulatoldedo@comcast.net

Merging With Monsters

DENVER, CO, - When Joseph Green set out to publish his third novel, Invisible Niggers, he was not surprised by the amount of attention and controversy generated by his title and subject matter. The aptly renamed novel, Merging with Monsters, has just been published by iuniverse.com....[more]

2006... Got Goals?
By Paul Shearstone

New Years is the time we clearly demonstrate just how undedicated and aimless we really are! Ask anybody on January 2nd 2006 if they have New Years Resolutions or goals and nine out of ten will say, "Yes!" ...Ask the same people about their resolutions three months later and they'll look at you like a small goat discovering a new fence for the first time....[more]

The Boys of Baraka
Review by Kam Williams

Headline: Kenya as Alternative to Mean Streets of Baltimore

After Born into Brothels won an Academy Award for Best Documentary, it was only a matter of time before the imitators came along. That film chronicled the efforts of a couple of fledgling filmmakers to improve the lot of some Calcutta street urchins whose mothers were all prostitutes....[more]

Penknife Press is proud to introduce 'Timeslips & Terrors,' a collection of short stories by Laura Wright. Here is one story from that collection.

The Statue Of Ninurta

The war god of Babylon, everyone had said it was just a myth. They all claimed he insulted the field of archeology with his, "self-appointed quest."...[more]

Fiddler's Mission
Afro Heat

You recall that moment when Kunta Kinte could not stand those chains on him and he had struggled hard and long to throw them off? More specifically, he cut them off with what appeared to be a sharp piece of iron. And at about the time he was able to free himself from the chains, Fiddler had walked in the slave quarters......[more]

Wright and Ellison:
Stories of Black Subjugation by White America
By Shaun Robinson

Richard Wright

Ralph Ellison

Whites have monopolized many outlets, which allow them to influence the minds of the general public. The most powerful of these conglomerate forces is the media. Through television shows, songs on the radio, movies in theaters, and subversive articles in magazines or newspapers, images of white supremacy have been embedded into the psyches of American residents.......[more]

Letter to all our Afrikan Brothers and Sisters
From Goddess IsIs Akkebala

Because of the honor you give to the Afrikan Carbon Family, because of the progress that you seek, because of your resolution to lead the Afrikan people back to their righteous mind-set not abandoning them there, because of the seen and unseen power in you, you fall into the position of "A Living HEroe/SHEroe", and this is the moment.......[more]

The Lamentations of Mother Earth

Wisdom awakes from deep sleep and examines the present through the windows of history, while IGNORANCE slumbers, painfully unaware of the connection between past and present reality......[more]

Origin of The Rottweiler

The Rottweiler has an ancestry that goes all the way back to the ancient Roman times of the Roman drover, a Mastiff type dog. The drovers were us ed to herd cattle during the day while the army was traveling, and at night while the soldiers slept it protected the troops from surprise enemy attacks......[more]

All the President's Men

Blessings, loving, and light throughout all creations and beyond.

goddess IsIs: Mr. President, do you think that you are better than all men, who in accordance to the constitution are all created equally?......[more]

African American Art
By Richard Powell (excerpted from AFRICANA: THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN EXPERIENCE, SECOND EDITION.
Edited by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Kwame Anthony Appiah. (Oxford University Press; April 2005)
Submitted By Yolanda Carden, Publicist

Painting, sculpture, graphic arts, and crafts developed by people of African descent in the United States and thematically and stylistically informed by African American culture. The term African American art means different things to different people. For some the term designates a largely racial phenomenon, describing all artistic products-paintings, sculptures, graphic arts, crafts, architecture, etc.-created by North Americans of African descent. For others the preceding definition fails to take into account the cultural, in addition to the racial, implications of the term.......[more]

Prototype of a New Black Nation

It is 2040 and America has finally admitted to the atrocities of the past and agreed to give Black America reparations in the form of land (Texas) and a generous amount of money ($20 billion). The check has been signed and there was a mass evacuation of all other races from the state of Texas except for Blacks, and all other Blacks from around the country packed up and moved south.......[more]

When Water Is Pure
Mental Collage by Kathryn S.

Sister Kathryn Slaughter engages our minds in poetic securities. Join Sister Slaughter soon for her new Afromerica Web Column. Get a sense of what she is all about.......[more]

Poems By Kevin Ervin

Brother Kevin Ervin reveals the depths of his mind through the streams and rivers of water. Think and understand as you read........[more]

Dear Mr. Cozby,

After seriously considering what Bill Cosby had to say, there were a few letters submitted by poor Blacks who really felt bad about how they were living. Afromerica was fortunate enough to receive one of those letters and would like everyone to read how Cosby has changed Black America from being violent, uneducated, misinformed, and criminal suspects.......[more]

The Art of Thinking
By Michael Angier

Auguste Rodin's classic statue "The Thinker" is one of my favorites. It's hard to look at it (or one of its many replicas) without being moved by it. The innocent display of someone deeply in thought causes most of us to ponder a bit ourselves. Why is this image so captivating? What's he thinking about?......[more]

The Black Matriarch Series
By Thomas Duffy

The memoir of a brother reflecting on the shape of his life as a result of being raised by a Black woman. This is the first of the Black Matriarch Series so check back periodically for continuations to this story of self-reflection and commentary on the social burdens of today's Black man.......[more]

I Know Why Mama Left

The women in a man's life all fight fiercely for the leading role. Wife, mother, and the secret mistress of this urban father's life are determined to keep what they all feel rightly belongs to them.......[more]

Second Thoughts

A mother experiences drama in her life she never expects. Jennifer's live-in boyfriend, her mother and her daughter go through changes that would break anyone at anytime.....[more]

Red Dog

The shocking, almost too real story of urban youths trying to find a way out of the city and into the world of music, fame, and big money. Neither love, friendship nor honesty is enough to quench the thirst of freedom.......[more]

Take the Gun from the White Man's Hands


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We Spend Money on What?

Despite being the nations most consumptuous group of people, the things we buy the most give evidence on what captures our interest the most. The question comes down to "What do you spend your extra money on?" After an extensive study on the spending habits of Blacks on America, researchers found that Blacks spend the bulk of their extra earnings on products of looking good and feeling good......[more]

What do we do with our Spare Time?

Leisure time is a tell-all about the mental and physical state of America. We (as in you and I) will share with one another the things we like to do to determine just what people are doing these days. We will also make suggestions about what activities are beneficial and what activities are simply time-wasters.

There was a study that suggested that when Blacks have extra money, we prefer to spend it on movies, music, and food as opposed to whites, who spend extra money on more outdoor activities. Is this accurate? Actually, it all depends on how much a person makes, what side of town they live on, and how much education they have.

Stay tuned to this forum because it is going to get exciting.