Kenya Allmond (me)

Last week I saw on iGoogle (probably in the TechDirt feed) that 1938 Media had inked a deal with Verizon Wireless to distribute 1938 Media content on its VCast service.  I didn’t get to read it because it was a busy day.  1938 Media was no stranger to me, however, after all the controversy that [...]

I had the opportunity to attend a screening of The Souls of Black Girls as a part of the Urban Film Series last night. The film produced by Daphne Valerius questions whether women of color suffer from a self image disorder as a result of media images. It features discussions with teenage girls as well [...]

I read this interesting article of how African immigrants in the United States are losing their ethnic identities. In African countries where everyone has the same skin color, ethnicity is not defined by race. I can certainly see the author’s point on this because ethnicity is not equivalent to “race” although we tend to think [...]

The argument in defense of Imus’ comments is that rappers say the same things and no one complains. This argument is full of fallacy. Try telling the police officer that pulls you over for speeding that everyone else was speeding too. While it might be true that doesn’t change the fact that you were speeding [...]

Yesterday Don Imus’ TV simulcast was terminated on MSNBC and today his CBS radio show was canceled. The uproar caused this to happen. Congratulations I guess. The same uproar occurred as a result of the Michael Richards episode a few months ago. And everyone was upset about what Joe Biden said about Barack Obama. We [...]