Police Shootings at Racially Charged Miami ‘Urban Beach Week’
Investigation into a shootout in the streets of Miami Beach early Monday morning has begun, which ended in the death of one alleged gunman, but which also left three officers and four bystanders wounded — the latter possibly hit by stray police bullets. The incident comes as a grim conclusion to Miami’s tenth annual Urban Beach Week, a massively popular Memorial Day Weekend event that attracts racially coded criticism and police scrutiny in equal measure. More on this story here
After 5 straight years of attending, I’m never going back to Miami for Memorial Day weekend again.
The TV set vs. Black families
Nielsen, the ratings agency, has released its latest State of the Media report showing national television-watching trends in the year 2010. The numbers are alarming. Blacks ages 18 to 49, the data show, have been TV-ing it at a record-setting pace – on average clocking in a whopping 7 hours and 12 minutes a day.
The (now infamous) Black Dating & Marriage Negotiations Videos
I know I’ve been neglecting the blog and late on these videos but I had to post them.
