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This story is a part of The Black Snob’s two-week series, “Doomed Romance,” tales of love lost and love gone wrong. For more click here. The following is from my journal about the period of time before I married my ex-husband, “Henry.” It amazes me how I have all the evidence in the world that…
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This story is a part of The Black Snob’s two-week series, “Doomed Romance,” tales of love lost and love gone wrong. For more click here. Dancing around the issue of romance is tricky enough, but to attempt this feat while being a gay black man, a good fellow can be hard to find. Out latest…
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Dan Abrams out. Rachel Maddow in. Lord, MSNBC. Why did that take so long? Abrams gave it the old college try and was sometimes not half bad, but every now and then he actually made me miss Joe Scarborough and that’s not a good thing. Sayeth The Huffington Post: Just in time for the closing…
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Ohio Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones died suddenly Wednesday of an aneurysm. President Bush said Tubbs Jones “was an effective legislator who was dedicated to helping small businesses, improving local schools, expanding job opportunities for Ohioans and ensuring that more of them have access to health care. “After making history as the first African-American woman elected…
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The may come as a surprise to people, but I”m not a big John McCain fan. I know. I’m shocked too. To think that a mere eight years ago he was being attacked for having Vietnam War PTSD, that his wife was a pill-pooping loony and he had an illegitimate black child. But there he…
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The following is an edited version of short story I wrote based on true events while I was living and working Bakersfield, Calif. — the place I retreated to after my marriage failed. Entitled “And This Season Too Shall Impasse,” it discusses the inertia, loneliness and despair I felt in life life as I struggle…