Celebrating National Poetry Month in April

***This post contains affiliate links. The B Board will receive compensation if a purchase is made after clicking on the graphics and links shown.*** Hey, poets and poetry lovers, hey! It’s April. Know what that means? It’s National Poetry Month here in the U.S.! This month let’s commit to celebrating and writing and reading poems…

It’s 2025 and You Are Here: Mind Your Business

Sooooo… It’s been over a month since the inauguration. Players in the Trump Administration, Part 2 did the Birdman hand rub, settled into their roles and wasted no time doing what they told us they were going to do in 2024. Ain’t nothing new and nothing nice. The theme for the next four years seems…

Right on C.U.E. in Times of Concern, Urgency, Emergency

The next three months leading up to this U.S. presidential “election” are gonna be nail biters mixed with head scratchers. VP was scooted into the qualifying round by her corporate party – without “We the People” actually choosing her to run. Magically, she’s collected delegate votes and here we are. Black American descendants of slavery,…

Socially Awkward, Social is Sharecropping: Is It Time to Leave a Mark (X)?

I just went down a rabbit hole on the website formally known as Twitter… Y’all! Is it time for descendants of U.S. slavery to get off X? There are entire accounts dedicated solely to disparaging, disrespecting and spewing threats and false info about Black Americans ALL. DAY. LONG. And these accounts have 10s/100s of thousands/millions…