***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 celebrate, write and read poems (and…
A Black American Composer, Clarinetist and Violinist from New Orleans, Edmond Dede, Wrote “the Most Important Opera Never Heard” (Until Now)
Edmond Dede was from New Orleans, where he learned, played and wrote music in his formative years. He moved to France in the mid 1800s and continued to write music and operas to make ends meet. He wrote his magnum opus, Morgiane, in France. The opera is about a bride who was abducted by a…
It’s Friday! Just Got Paid? Ya’ll Boycotting Retail Spending or Nah?
Today is No-Buy Day where folks are refusing to buy retail for 24 hours in protest of the new regime’s and corporate’s rollbacks of DEI policies and programs. I been pulled all the way back on frivolous spending and am strict about sticking to my weekly/monthly budgets so I guess you could say I’m locked…
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…
To Be Read | The Plunder of Black America: How the Racial Wealth Gap Was Made by Calvin Schermerhorn
***This post contains affiliate links. The B Board will receive compensation if a purchase is made after clicking on the graphics and links shown.*** New reading material for the start of ’25. Frederick Douglass called it P-L-U-N-D-E-R and author/historian Calvin Schermerhorn explores how and why Black America is approaching Z-E-R-O wealth in the book The Plunder…
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…
