On this day February 5th in Black History:

1866 - Congressman Thaddeus Stevens offered an amendment to Freedmen's Bureau bill authorizing the distribution of public land and confiscated land to freedmen and loyal refugees in forty acre lots. The measure was defeated in the House by a vote of 126 to 37. A Black delegation, led by Frederick Douglas called on President Johnson and urged ballots for former slaves. Meeting ended in disagreement and controversy after Johnson reiterated his opposition to Black suffrage.

1934 - Henry (Hank)"Home Run King" Aaron, baseball superstar was born.

1950 - Singer Natalie Cole, daughter of legedary singer Nat Cole, born in Los Angeles, California. Singing professionally at age 11, by 1976 Cole had won Grammys for New Artist of the Year and Best R&B Female Vocalist.

1962 - Suit seeking to bar Englewood, N.J., from maintaining "racial segregated" elementary schools filed in U.S. District Court.

1990 - Columbia University graduate and Harvard University law student Barack Obama became the first African American named president of the Harvard Law Review.

It may have seemed like an innocent tweet. But when you have more than a million followers, it's never that simple.

Questlove, the drummer for the Roots - now the house band for The Jimmy Fallon Show - was grabbing a bite at the NBC commissary Thursday, when a certain lunch special caught his eye. He snapped a photo of the sign, and tweeted it.

Underneath the picture he included the caption "Hmm HR?" - signaling that he may have been offended by the idea that Black History Month should be honored with fried chicken and collard greens. Some of his 1.3 million followers agreed, posting comments like "They wrong...Somebody get Al Sharpton on the phone" - while others didn't see the big deal, writing "It is a representation of Black food historically."

Within minutes the sign was gone from the commissary - though the meal continued to be served - and NBC posted a tweet of their own, saying "The sign in the NBCU cafeteria has been removed. We apologize for anyone who was offended by it."

One person who doesn't understand how offense could be taken: Chef Leslie Calhoun. It was her decision to select the menu items and create the sign. TheGrio caught up with her minutes after the tweet fiasco erupted and she seemed genuinely upset by the whole thing. Calhoun is an African-American and employee of Flick, a catering service that runs the NBC commissary. She said that for the last eight years she's been seeking approval from Flick management for a special Black History Month menu, and had finally been told that every Thursday for the month of February, she could serve whatever she chose.

See what Chef Leslie Calhoun had to say:

TOKYO — Toyota Motor Corp. will recall 270,000 Prius hybrid vehicles over brake problems in the United States and Japan, a leading newspaper said Friday.

The recall would affect the new Prius hybrid model, which went on sale in the United States and Japan in May 2009, Japan's top business newspaper, Nihon Keizai, said Friday.

Toyota spokeswoman Ririko Takeuchi also said the Japanese auto giant has launched a probe into the Lexus HS250h model because it uses the same brake system as the Prius hybrid.

Takeuchi said Toyota has not received any complaints about the Lexus HS250h model, and that the probe is to ensure safety.

It said Toyota would soon notify Japan's transport ministry and the U.S. Department of Transportation of the recall.

Japanese public broadcaster NHK also said Friday that Toyota was considering a recall of Prius hybrids in the U.S. and Japan.

Takayuki Fujimoto, a transport ministry official, said the government has yet to receive a recall notice from Toyota. Toyota cannot announce a recall in Japan until it notifies the ministry.

This is a commercial for a insurance company but its the kids that make you forget what its really about we all know kids say the darndest things!!!

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10 Americans suspected of trafficking in Haitian childrenwere charged with child kidnapping and criminal association on Thursday, their lawyer said.
Coq said that under Haiti's legal system, there won't be an open trial, but a judge will consider the evidence and could render a verdict in about three months.

Coq said a Haitian prosecutor told him the Americans were charged because they had the children in their possession. No one from the Haitian government could be reached immediately for comment. Each kidnapping count carries a possible sentence of five to 15 years in prison. Each criminal association count has a potential sentence of three to nine years.

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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — A Haitian prosecutor investigating the case of 10 Americans suspected of trafficking in Haitian children whom they had claimed were earthquake orphans was expected to decide later Thursday whether to pursue criminal charges or drop the matter.

At about noon on Thursday, two vehicles carrying the Americans pulled up to the city’s white central courthouse, where they were met by a crush of reporters there to cover a case that has become a flashpoint for Haiti’s fears of foreign encroachment in the aftermath of the Jan. 12 earthquake.

“We’re just trusting God for a positive outcome,” one of them said as she waited to be taken into the court building, where a prosecutor was expected to question the Americans.

The detainees, most of them members of a Baptist congregation from Idaho, were not in handcuffs.

Edwin Coq, a lawyer for the Baptists, said that nine of his 10 clients were “completely innocent,” but added that “if the judiciary were to keep one, it could be the leader of the group.” He appeared to be referring to Laura Silsby, who helped organize the mission to Haiti and has spoken for the Americans since they were detained last Friday.

“I’m trying to get them all free but I don’t yet know what’s going to happen,” Mr. Coq said in an interview at his earthquake-damaged law offices in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince.

The Americans were arrested near the border as they tried to take 33 Haitian children to what they had said was an orphanage in the Dominican Republic, where they would stay in a “loving Christian home-like environment” and be eligible for adoption, according to a Web site for their orphanage.

The Americans, their lawyers and members of their churches have said they are innocent of any wrongdoing, and said the imbroglio was a huge misunderstanding. In an interview earlier this week, Ms. Silsby said the group had come to Haiti to rescue children orphaned by the earthquake, and that “our hearts were in the right place.”

But several of the 33 children had at least one living parent, and some of those parents said the Baptists had promised simply to educate the youngsters in the Dominican Republic, and said the children would be able to return to Haiti to visit their families.

Some Haitian leaders have called the Americans kidnappers, but no criminal charges have been filed. Several of the Americans were questioned by the judge investigating the case on Tuesday.

Since the Americans were arrested, Haitian judicial officials have left open the possibility that the Americans could be returned to the United States for possible trial, sparing Haiti’s crippled justice system a high-profile criminal prosecution fraught with diplomatic and political land mines.

Never try to come between a woman and her purse!

Kendra Coffey, 22, was listening to her iPod and taking a leisurely stroll in her Chicago suburban neighborhood, when she was approached by a man who claimed he had a gun. When Coffey glanced at the object in the robber's hand, she thought it looked like a piece of black wood. The robber then tried to snatch Coffey's purse, but she put up quite a fight, refusing to let go it. The thief won out and fled with the purse, but Coffey gave chase.

The assailant jumped in to a waiting getaway car. The driver sped off on the wrong side of the street with the door open. The hell-bent young woman managed to get hold of her purse again and wouldn't release it while trying desperately to climb in to the speeding vehicle. "I was half in, half out," she said. "They were dragging me about half a block."

Coffey tried to death grip the vehicle, but as the driver gave the car the gun, she fell off. Luckily for Coffey, she had worn a thick winter coat that cushioned her from sustaining more serious injuries. There were a few onlookers who had witnessed the madness. Luckily, they were able to give police details about the vehicle, because Coffey had no recollection of specifics since everything happened so quickly. "I was shaking. I could barely talk," she said. "It was amazing how much everyone helped. People usually don't stop and speak up and say what happened. They say, 'It's not my problem.'"

The courageous young woman had just deposited some money in to a bank account and did not want the thieves to gain access to it. When the man approached Coffey and tried to take away her purse, she says, "I just snapped."

The young victim says that she had $20, her driver's license, house keys and other valuables in that purse which was never returned to her. "I've got to get a new everything," she laments.

Thanks to eyewitnesses, though, police caught the two suspects, Pierre Seawood, 30, and Gaspare Braccioforte, 29. They were charged Monday with aggravated robbery. The purse-snatching duo were also charged with strong-arm robbery for a separate incident that occurred earlier this past Sunday.

After 2 successful seasons of “For The Love of Ray J”, singer/TV personality, Ray J is back with a new series on VH1 and this time he is bringing the whole family along. Check out the synopsis:

Siblings Brandy and Ray J Norwood are famous for their incredible vocal talent on the stage and screen. But they wouldn’t be anywhere without the support and guidance of their parents – entertainment manager and mom, Sonja and talented musical father, Willie Norwood. Viewers will get a first hand glimpse into the lives of the Norwood family unit and their family business – Rn’B Productions. Run by Sonja, Rn’B Productions features an impressive roster of musical artists including Brandy, Ray J and their father Willie, who also serves as the company’s vocal coach. But with Sonja ready to take a step down, Brandy and Ray J will have to fill her shoes quickly all the while taking the family business to the next level. Will they have what it takes to continue to stay in the limelight while growing an entertainment empire?

And don’t worry if you didn’t read all of that. I was distracted by Brandy’s eyebrows as well. Overall it’s a nice family portrait though. If you’re interested, the show premieres on VH1 Sunday, April 11 at 9.

Eve has found herself in the middle of an investigation into the laundering of foreign monies through the American financial system, according to ABC News.

Senate investigators have been tracking money from the accounts of Eve’s on/off boyfriend, Teodorin Nguema Obiang. Obiang is the son of the president of Equatorial Guinea, an infamous and corrupt dictator.

According to the report released last night, Obiang used middle men – lawyers, escrow and real estate agents, and in one case, his then-girl friend, the statuesque rapper-actress Eve Jeffers – to allegedly set up shell companies in the U.S. Through those, investigators say, Obiang wired in funds that enabled him to buy luxury cars, a $30 million Malibu estate and place a down payment on a Gulfstream jet.

Two Los Angeles lawyers allegedly carried out most of the scheme. They were summoned to testify before the senate today to explain why they set up shell companies on Obiang’s behalf.

Eve has a cameo in the report, as the president of what senate investigators described as a shell company. Obiang called it “Sweet Pink, Inc.,” which was evidently set up in late 2005 “to employ individuals at the home [Obiang] maintained before he purchased the Malibu Property and to handle payroll and other matters related to the employment of those individuals,” according to the report.

Oops!

Eve is planning her big comeback to the world of music this year, and we can only assume that this will delay that return for awhile longer.

On this day February 4th in Black History many things have taken place for example

1794-France abolishes slavery
France abolishes slavery. The nation will have a lukewarm commitment to abolition and will, under Napoleon, reestablish slavery in 1802 along with the reinstitution of the "Code noir", prohibiting blacks, mulattoes and other people of color from entering French colonial territory or intermarrying with whites.

1913 - Rosa Parks (born Rosa Louise McCauley) was born on this day.

1986 - Sojourner Truth stamp issued by the U.S. Postal Service

1996 - J.C. Watts becomes the first Black selected to respond to a state of the unioun address.

Born in Jackson, MS in 1946, Jesse Adams was born with a gift. Skilled on so many levels, he found his true love, art, at an early age. From drawing cartoons and caricatures of classmates in grade school, he found that his talent superceded his counterparts. Going on to Jim Hill High School in Jackson, MS, he found that not only did he have talent, but also was very gifted in other subjects such as History & Language Arts. These skills catapulted him into college at a very early age, and by the time he was 19, he was already teaching college in Memphis, TN.

While receiving offers from several colleges to teach Art & History, Mr. Adams still knew that he had a true passion for art. From designing an art piece on the 30 ft sports annex wall at Jackson State University (which still stands today), to doing a retirement portrait of legendary Grambling University coach Eddie Robinson, his ideas had come into fruition. He has worked with some of the top art galleries in the US including the Art Institute of Chicago.

Awarded numerous awards from "Who's Who" & several colleges throughout the midwest and south, he went on to teach in Rock Island, IL, where he recently retired in 2008 after 25+ years in the school system. He is now in the process of a 13 city tour with his work, traveling throughout the US. His goals now are to take the work he has done over the past decades and make it available to the public.

Here is a few samples of this legendary artist's work. If you would like to purchase originals or prints from this artist, please contact us at blogthaedge@gmail.com

1903-Jack Johnson, Negro Heavyweight
On February 3, 1903; Jackson became the first Negro Heavyweight Champion

1920-Negro Baseball League founded

1956-University of Alabama First Black Student
Autherine J. Lucy becomes the first black student to attend the University of Alabama. She was expelled three days later "for her own safety" in response to threats from a mob. In 1992 Autherine Lucy Foster graduated from the University with a master’s degree in education. The same day, her daughter, Grazia Foster, graduated with a bachelor’s degree in corporate finance.

1964-Blacks, Puerto Ricans Boycott NYC Public Schools
School officials reported that 464,000 Black and Puerto Rican students boycotted New York City public schools. More than 267,000 were absent during second boycott, March 16.

1988-Confederate Flag Protest
In Montgomery, Alabama, Thomas Reed, president of the Alabama chapter of the NAACP, was arrested after he and 11 others attempted to strike a Confederate flag flying atop the state capitol building.

The first rule of fourth grade - no talking about fight club.

A Queens teacher turned his classroom into a boxing arena for two feuding students, telling the boys to settle their beef with their fists as their stunned classmates watched the bizarre spectacle, authorities said yesterday and to make sure no one found out his twisted teaching technique, the instructor, Joseph Gullotta, 29, allegedly supplied the kids with excuses for the nurse to explain away any injuries.

In one corner was a 10-year-old. His opponent was a year younger. The Post is withholding the kids' names. Before beginning the match at the impromptu fight club at PS 65 in Ozone Park, Gullotta instructed a girl to close the classroom door. He ordered the rest of his pupils to back up and make way for the battle, Queens DA Richard Brown said. The two combatants came out swinging and then began wrestling.

During the bout, the older boy's head rammed into the younger one's mouth. The younger boy suffered a cut lip; the older one, a bruised head.

"When two fourth-graders became involved in a verbal dispute, their teacher allegedly told one of the students that he should 'take it out' on another student," Brown said. "When parents send their children off to school, their teachers have an obligation to provide a safe environment for them."

Teacher's aide Abraham Fox, 43, was in the classroom during the clash, but did nothing to break it up, the DA charged.

Neither student was offered a visit to the school nurse, despite Fox's observation that the 9-year-old might need stitches, Brown said. Then out came the schoolbooks for two periods of more traditional instruction before Gullotta finally allowed the younger boy to visit the nurse.

Gullotta allegedly supplied him with a cover story for his injuries: He was to tell the nurse that he dropped a pencil and bashed heads with his classmate as they both bent down to pick it up. He repeated the tale and told the nurse that the other boy was hurt as well. She sent him back to get his adversary. Gullotta escorted the 10-year-old to the nurse's office and allegedly told him to repeat the made-up story.

The incident was discovered only after one of the boys' parents heard the child talking about it. Gullotta and Fox were charged with two counts each of acting in a manner injurious to a child under 17 and could face up to a year in jail if convicted. Fox was suspended without pay; Gullotta was reassigned to a rubber room.

NELSONVILLE, Ohio - An attacker could find many places to hide at Hocking College, a campus carved into a forest in the Appalachian foothills. And with the threat of a mass killing looming over black students at the community college, Allen Edwards is steering clear of the trees.

"I don't feel too safe walking by the woods," said Edwards, a 19-year-old black student from Canton. "There's woods everywhere. And somebody could be out in them, and I don't know."

The FBI is investigating a threat scrawled last week on a bathroom wall warning that black students would be killed Feb. 2. It bore the trademarks of just another casual — though chilling — threat of violence on a college campus, but students here aren't taking any chances.

At least two black students have withdrawn permanently from school out of fear for their safety, and another dozen have moved out of the dorm where the threat was found, officials at the two-year technical college said. Some students seem unperturbed, but others say the threat has brought simmering racial tensions to the surface.

The school confirmed Tuesday that the threat said black students would be killed Feb. 2. At least one subsequent note reading "kill the n------" was reported.

Hocking covers hundreds of densely treed acres in the Wayne National Forest about 60 miles southeast of Columbus. The campus overwhelms Nelsonville, an economically depressed rural town plagued with heroin addiction and unemployment. About 400 of the school's 6,300 students are black, many of whom are foreign exchange students from the Caribbean.

Since the first threat was discovered Friday, the school has installed more security cameras in dorms and beefed up foot patrols. A $5,000 reward is being offered, and extra counselors are on hand. Campus spokeswoman Judy Sinnott said that she had not heard previous complaints of racist taunting, but that on a small campus, anything can happen. "Any time that there are young people, you know, there's going to be tension," Sinnott said. "Young people will be young people."

Edwards lives on the second-floor hallway of Hocking Heights, a few doors down from the two black students who abruptly quit. He's contemplating leaving, too, but hasn't decided. Edwards said he has seen racist comments written on the same bathroom wall in the past but didn't let it bother him. But two days after the first threat was found, he saw the second on the bathroom wall and reported it to campus police. "I'm not sure how to feel," he said. "I'm just going to see how everything plays out." Another resident of the second floor, Amelinda Marengo, sat on her bed and said that even though the threat doesn't include her, she is still afraid.

Marengo, who is half Puerto Rican, said she and her black roommate endured racist taunts in the cafeteria on several occasions last year. Her roommate declined to be interviewed.

"We'd be sitting at a lunch table and some guys would be sitting across the room, and they'd be screaming, like, 'n----- lover' across the table," Marengo said. "I had enough of it one day and I got up and I just started yelling at them and telling them, like, 'There is no reason for you to treat someone like that.'"

It's not the first time racial threats — usually found to be hollow — have interrupted life at a college. Officials at St. Xavier University in Chicago shut down the campus in 2008 when threatening messages were found scrawled in the bathroom of a freshman dorm, and in 2006 a black woman pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct after threatening letters to minorities at her former college led officials to move dozens of students for a night.

Students rushed to classes Tuesday as an icy wind blew snow flurries through the trees. Disturbing rumors floated, including a claim — later determined to be false — that nooses had been found in the woods. Some students, all of them white, admitted they had heard racist comments on campus before, but said those attitudes are confined to just a handful of people.

The college has provided temporary housing for students who are too scared to stay in Hocking Heights, the dorm where the threats were found. And for those wary of venturing outside until after Feb. 2, teachers are making allowances for missed classwork.

Twenty-five years after the first recording of "We Are the World," a second batch of stars gathered to record a remake for Haiti at the same Hollywood studio -- Henson Recording Studios -- as the original. And yes, that is Vince Vaughn, lol.

Based on true events in the midst of the 2000 election, AMERICAN VIOLET tells the astonishing story of Dee Roberts (critically hailed newcomer Nicole Beharie), a 24 year-old African American single mother of four young girls living in a small Texas town who is barely making ends meet on a waitress salary and government subsidies.

On an early November morning while Dee works a shift at the local diner, the powerful local district attorney (Academy Award® nominee Michael OKeefe) leads an extensive drug bust, sweeping her Arlington Springs housing project with military precision. Police drag Dee from work in handcuffs, dumping her in the squalor of the womens county prison. Indicted based on the uncorroborated word of a single and dubious police informant facing his own drug charges, Dee soon discovers she has been charged as a drug dealer.

Even though Dee has no prior drug record and no drugs were found on her in the raid or any subsequent searches, she is offered a hellish choice: plead guilty and go home as a convicted felon or remain in prison and fight the charges thus, jeopardizing her custody and risking a long prison sentence.

Despite the urgings of her mother (Academy Award® nominee Alfre Woodard), and with her freedom and the custody of her children at stake, she chooses to fight the district attorney and the unyielding criminal justice system he represents. Joined in an unlikely alliance with an ACLU attorney (Tim Blake Nelson) and former local narcotics officer (Will Patton), Dee risks everything in a battle that forever changes her life and the Texas justice system. AMERICAN VIOLET also stars Emmy Award® winner Charles S. Dutton and Xzibit.

This movie was awesome but I'm sad to say it didn’t get the buzz it deserved, a lot of times movies that hold so much truth don’t and this movie is one of those. It not only tells Dee story but it tells the story of many towns around the country as well as ones who have been forced to plea to deals that they never should have. This movie is out on dvd NOW and is a must see, you wont be disappointed.

Check out the trailer below:

On this day Febrary 2nd in Black History Dr. Bernard Harris Jr. became the first African-American to walk in space. He logged 198 hours, 29 minutes in space, completed 129 orbits, and traveled over 2.9 million miles. He also accomplished his childhood dream by completing his first walk in space, becoming the first African-American to do so.

Dr. Bernard Harris, Jr. was born on June 26, 1956, the son of Mrs. Gussie H. Burgess, and Mr. Bernard A. Harris, Sr. A native of Temple, Texas, he graduated from Sam Houston High School, San Antonio in 1974. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in biology from University of Houston in 1978 before follwoing that up with a doctorate in medicine from Texas Tech University School of Medicine in 1982.
After medical school, Dr. Harris completed a residency in internal medicine at the Mayo Clinic in 1985. While working on a National Research Council Fellowship at NASA Ames Research Center in 1986, he conducted research in the field of musculoskeletal physiology and disuse osteoporosis. He finished his fellowship in 1987, then trained as a flight surgeon at the Aerospace School of Medicine, Brooks AFB, San Antonio, Texas, in 1988. His duties included clinical investigations of space adaptation and the development of countermeasures for extended duration space flight. Assigned to the Medical Science Division, he held the title of Project Manager, Exercise Countermeasure Project.

Selected by NASA in January 1990, Dr. Harris became an astronaut in July 1991. He was assigned as a mission specialist on STS-55, Spacelab D-2, in August 1991, and later flew on board Columbia for ten days, (April 26 to May 6, 1993), marking the Shuttle's one year of total flight time. Dr. Harris was part of the payload crew of Spacelab D-2, conducting a variety of research in physical and life sciences. During this flight, Dr. Harris logged over 239 hours and 4,164,183 miles in space.
Later, Dr. Bernard Harris, Jr. was the Payload Commander on STS-63 (February 2-11, 1995), the first flight of a new joint Russian-American Space Program.

Dr. Harris is married to the former Sandra Fay Lewis of Sunnyvale, California. They have one child. He enjoys flying, sailing, skiing, running, scuba diving, art and music. He is also a licensed private pilot. Most recently, Dr. Harris is President and Founder of the Harris Foundation, which supports math/science education and crime prevention programs for America's youth.

He describes himself as a “dreamer who believes nothing is impossible.” I believe he has proven himself correct.

Sure, Lil Wayne’s rock album, “Rebirth,” is a misfire, the kind of thing that happens when a star overestimates his skills (and calls his opening track “American Star”). But if Kid Rock can rap, why can’t Lil Wayne try being a rocker?

Meanwhile, after the very premature release of the rock single “Prom Queen,” “Rebirth” was repeatedly delayed, finally arriving just a week before Lil Wayne is to be sentenced to jail after pleading guilty to weapons possession. What makes the album interesting, though not exactly good, is how it reveals a rapper’s view of rock.

“Prom Queen,” the DJ Infamous & Drew Correa-produced single that sparked discussion about the possibility of the album, drops as Rebirth’s second track. While the initial shock of how pathetic it is as a stab at some sort of rock stardom has wore off (slightly) since, the evidence remains that Weezy still lacks any sort of chops when stepping into the world of guitar-driven rock. “Ground Zero” follows as a unique hybrid, where Wayne fails to fully commit to either rapping or aggo-yelling; it’s a tired comparison, but Weezy is honestly a backwards red NY Yankees ball-cap away from full on Limp Bizkitry here.

The only highlight on the record comes with Eminem’s verse on “Drop The World.” Guests roped into the repetitive, derivative twelve tracks include J.U.S.T.I.C.E. and Eminem, who performed the album’s best song, Drop the World, with Wayne at the Grammys. Eminem, who produced the song, sounds crisp and hungry and, like on Forever, the hit posse cut from Drake, seems poised to once again become hip-hop's leading voice. At one point, that voice belonged to Lil Wayne, but on the rare occasion he does rap on this album, he's upstaged both by Eminem and Nicki Minaj, who also had the best rhymes on We Are Young Money, the pointless first release on Wayne's label.

Rebirth is a stunningly sour example of why Lil Wayne should stick to what he’s good at. He can seemingly lay down 100 bars at a moment’s notice, and at this point in time it’s almost guaranteed that at least a few of them are going to be smart, funny, and downright untouchable. But take the emcee outside of that realm and put a guitar in his hand, and he becomes a lost fool. As an emcee, Wayne has produced a series of remarkably sharp studio recordings that has given credence to accusations that he’s one of the best rappers alive. That being said, Lil Wayne has clearly smoked himself retarded as he believes that he is equally strong as a vocalist and musician, which clearly he is not. No further proof of this is needed other than a single listen to Rebirth.

In case you don't remember the single "Prom Queen" (released a year ago) here is the video:

Q:Ok well I have never sent in a question to anything on advice before but I was referred by a friend to read your blog a few days back and seen your advisement on the cheating blog for sending questions for advice and thought to myself what the hell. I have a issue that my friends just think I should give up on but I think they have other motives cause I know a couple are interested in me

Well there is this woman I know that is AMAZING - she has goals, well educated, beautiful, has a great sense of humor, just well grounded all around, I'm sure you get the point well she is recently divorced and says she isn't looking for a relationship but if something comes her way she may bite but I know there is someone she is interested in because she has spoken to me about him before. We have been friends for a few years and she is a great friend she has helped me with alot of life issues as well as we always have a good time when we talk or hang out but the thing is I am in love with her but I'm afraid if I tell her that will end our friendship she has been thru so much and I dont want to add to the the bull she went thru or even possibly chasing someone who doesn't seem to want her? Why do good women do that? So what should I do?
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A: First off, your "friends" that like you will never give you sound advice when you are in pursuit of another woman. They will find any and every reason possible to tear down the other individual to boost themselves up.

Next, you say that she is a recent divorcee. Be that she was in a relationship that didn't go as planned doesn't necessarily mean she's ready to jump back in the ring just yet. Many times, people who "break up" or "divorce" are in need of space. But at the same time, you need to remain true to your feelings. If you really feel a connection stronger than a friendship, you should follow your heart and express yourself to this person. They will never know how you truly feel and you will never know of the possibility that may have been.

There is, however, a thin line between friendship and a relationship. Be that you have been friends with this woman for some time is to your advantage. Patience is the most important rule of thumb in a situation such as this. You don't want to be too demanding, at the same time you don't want to appear passive. A true friend will not allow your friendship to be destroyed because you expressed your true feelings.

A good woman recognizes she is a good woman because in order for her to be good to a man, she is good to herself first. A good woman also is not waiting on a good man-she recognizes that God will place that man in her life. If you are that good man, stand up and be accounted for!

Hope that answered your questions.

If you would like to ask a question, please email sitonthacouch@gmail.com. All personal information will be kept strictly confidential.

Well its that time a year again....February the month that is considered BLACK HISTORY MONTH. Whats interesting we hear the same argument each year why do we just get a month we should be celebrating all year round. This is true so do it! Just because there has been a month designated doesn't mean you can only celebrate or educate during that month we have more control over what we teach our children or others, so use that control and educate. We can start by just learning how BLACK HISTORY MONTH started.


So how did this month even get started?

Black History Month began as “Negro History Week,” which was created in 1926 by Carter G. Woodson, a noted African American historian, scholar, educator, and publisher. It became a month-long celebration in 1976.

Historian Carter G. Woodson was born to poor, yet land-owning, former slaves in New Canton, Virginia on December 19, 1875. During the 1890s, he hired himself out as a farm and manual laborer, drove a garbage truck, worked in coalmines, and attended high school and college in Berea College, Kentucky—from which he earned a B.L. degree in 1903. In the early 1900s, he taught black youth in West Virginia. From late 1903 until early 1907, Woodson worked in the Philippines under the auspices of the U.S. War Department. Woodson then traveled to Africa, Asia, and Europe and briefly attended the Sorbonne in Paris, France. In 1908, he received an M.A. degree in History, Romance languages, and Literature from the University of Chicago. In 1912, while teaching in Washington, D.C., he earned his doctorate in history from Harvard University.


In 1915, Woodson published his first book, The Education of the Negro Prior to 1861 and co-founded the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASNLH). In 1916, he singlehandedly launched The Journal of Negro History, now The Journal of African American History. In 1918, Woodson published A Century of Negro Migrationand became the principal of Armstrong Manual Training School, Washington, D.C. From 1919 until 1920, he was the Dean of Howard University’s School of Liberal Arts and from 1920 until 1922 he served as a dean at West Virginia Collegiate Institute. In 1921, he published The History of the Negro Church and founded the Associated Publishers, Inc. After founding the ASNLH, he also became active in black organizations like the NAACP, the National Urban League, the Friends of Negro Freedom, and the Committee of 200.


In 1922, he published the first edition of his popular The Negro in Our History and decided to commit his life’s work, routinely laboring 18 hours per day, to the ASNLH and the early black history movement. On July 18, 1922, he purchased a three-story, late-nineteenth century Italianate style row house in Washington D.C. located at 1538 Ninth Street, NW that became his personal residence as well as the office for the Associated Publishers, Inc. and the national headquarters of the ASNLH. During the 1920s, Woodson received tens of thousands dollars from several white philanthropists to fund the ASNLH’s various activities.

In 1926, he launched Negro History Week. By the early 1930s, Woodson relied upon black communities throughout the country to maintain his organization’s activities. In 1937, he created The Negro History Bulletin mainly for children and schoolteachers and throughout the 1930s and 1940s Woodson spoke at countless elementary and high schools, Negro History Week events, and at the graduation ceremonies for many HBCUs. Once in Detroit, MI in February 1935, he addressed “more than three thousand persons.” During the 1930s and 1940s, Woodson wrote several hundred essays in leading black newspapers such as the New York Age, the Pittsburgh Courier, the Afro-American (Baltimore), and the Chicago Defender. In 1933, he published The Mis-Education of the Negro (1933). Though he wrote, co-authored, and/or edited more than twenty books, this is his most famous and enduring book. Woodson died suddenly from a heart attack in his “office home” on April 3, 1950. He never married and had no children. Deservingly dubbed “The Father of Black History,” he was, simply put, a black history institution builder.

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