Friday, March 26, 2010

Bsi 2,102.05 +8.22 +.39%

A historic week ends on an upswing.

WINNERS

Barack Obama (BHO) 301.22 +17.68 +5.87%

Brother's gonna work it out!

LOSERS

Black Young Adults (AAYA) 33.39 -8.3 -19.91%

The Atlanta Journal-Constituation reports that African-American youths account for half of all new HIV infections. Half.

Thursday, March 25, 2010

Bsi 2,093.83 +2.53 +.12%

The struggles of black writers, actors and directors has been pretty well documented, so kudos to the Writers Guild of America for their recent panel on gay minoritity writers. At least it starts a discussion.

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Bsi 2,091.3 0 0%

Tyler Perry starts to cast For Colored Girls... Which is alternately titled: How I Learned To Stop Worrying About Who Tyler Perry Is Casting In For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow is Enuf And Love The Bomb: Based on the Novel Push By Sapphire. Or maybe it isn't.

Either way, yawn.

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Bsi 2,091.3 -8.13 -.39%

As if it's needed, more evidence that our kids need to spend more time outside instead of in front of the television.

Researchers have discovered that African American children with asthma in metropolitan Washington, DC, are significantly more likely to have low levels of vitamin D than healthy African American children.

Vitamin D insufficiency is more prevalent among African Americans than other Americans and, in North America, most young, healthy blacks do not achieve optimal 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D] concentrations at any time of year. Researchers say it is primarily due to the fact that pigmentation in their skin reduces the amount of vitamin D produced in the skin.

BUY

Zoe Saldana

Sure, there's no racism in Hollywood, right?

“When they say ‘We want to go white,’ they have a very smooth way of saying it, and the recent one is the word traditional. [I've heard] ‘Oh, you know, you’re just not what we were looking for, your skin is a little darker.’ Compared to what?! My skin is just my skin. It’s dark if you compare it to someone who’s lighter.”

SELL

Why Did I Get Married, Too

See what he did with the title?

Monday, March 22, 2010

Bsi 2,099.43 +45 +2.14%

We'll give President Obama some dap for getting the Health Care bill through the House, but we know the fight is just beginning. Something tells us he knows it too.