[pic from Daleak.com] These limited edition kicks come out Nov 21…

Sheila E Pictures CHECK OUT HER INTERVIEW WITH CNN ON OCT.22. SHE IS STILL BEAUTIFUL AND USING HER GOD-GIVEN EXTRAORDINARY TALENT TO MAKE AN EVEN BIGGER DIFFERENCE IN THIS WORLD. Embedded video from CNN Video THIS POST WOULDN’T BE COMPLETE WITHOUT A VIDEO(SNIPET) OF ONE OF HER AMAZING PERFORMANCES. WE STILL LOVE YOU SHEILA E!!

Potopia: Oakland leads the way in marijuana legalization [pic from AP] Newsweek: A nine-block section of the city has become a marijuana mecca – and a model for what a legalized-drug America could look like. On the corner of Broadway and 17th Street in downtown Oakland, nudged between a Chinese restaurant and a hat shop, Oaksterdam University greets passersby with a life-size cutout of Barack Obama and the sweet smell of fresh marijuana drifting from a back room. Inside, dutiful students flip through thick plastic binders of the day’s lessons, which, on a recent Saturday began with “Pot Politics 101,” taught by a ponytailed legal consultant who has authored a…

[PAM GRIER PLAYED FOXY BROWN IN THE 70’s] Say what you will about the roughly 150 black action, horror and comedy films that came out between 1971 and 1976, the height of the blaxploitation era: that they were cheaply made, poorly acted, hyper-violent and glorified pimps, prostitutes, criminals and con men — all those things are true, to a certain extent. But they were also utterly empowering, gobbled up by African American audiences desperate for strong, and recognizable, working-class heroes. “These films made me feel proud in a way Sidney Poitier didn’t; he was detached from the inner-city experience,” says Josiah Howard, author of “Blaxploitation Cinema: The Essential Reference Guide.”…

BROTHAS, I LOVE YOU… PLEASE!!! DON’T GO TO JAIL !! {a picture of my ex from behind bars} The picture you see above was all I had to hold on to. The man that I use to love spent 8 years in a State Penitentiary, serving time for trying to get rich the easy way. He wouldn’t agree that the route he chose was the easy way, because day in and day out he risked his life for the dollar bill. He fought tooth and nail for every dollar that he made, did a lot of things that he wasn’t proud of, so he definitely wouldn’t say it was the…

When I first heard this Too Short song, it made me want to lose my virginity!

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ANTHONY HAMILTON’S RADIO INTERVIEW WITH DJBOOTH.NET I am still feeling this dude. I can’t stomach too much R&B because most of it is the same whining and crying with the men using synthesizers to make their voices even more feminine. I’m just not with all of that. But Anthony Hamilton is soulful and relevant. You can hear the struggle of urban life in his voice. There is no falseness, no begging, and it’s not all about sexing somebody. What a refreshing change to all the bullshit R&B that’s being played on the radio. Hopefully Hamilton is here to stay forever.