Friday, February 11, 2011

The Future of Black Publications

Shouldn't we just get real? Remember the saying about when certain powerful people and institutions catch a cold, blackfolks get the flu? Well, it's flu-time in America when it comes to everything from magazines like Ebony and Jet to newspapers as close as the one in your neighborhood.

I think it's time to chuck the paper and make the dissemination of information an online product. It's not as if blackfolks don't have access to the Internet.

Infants Who Disappear Right Before Our Eyes

Have you been following the Carlina White story -- the baby who was kidnapped from Harlem Hospital in 1987 and re-surfaced as an adult just weeks ago? Please read the piece I wrote for The Root:

http://www.theroot.com/views/carlina-white-abduction-could-it-happen-today?page=0,0