Friday, September 4, 2009

Bsi 2,129.04 +6.17 +.29%

The Index mourns as Michael Jackson is laid to rest.  Of course, we mourned for him more seventy days ago, but who's counting.

RIP MJ

WINNERS

Models of Color (MoC) 3.91 +1.37 +35.04%

Kudos to black models and fashion professionals for coming together to address the lack of diversity at major fashion weeks.

LOSERS

Roxanne Shante  (RXS) 0.0 -1.29 -100%

That great getting-Warner-Brothers-to-pay-for-her-PhD story from last week.  Yeah, well... all bullshit.  There is not PhD.  Damn.

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Bsi 2,104.57 +16.47 +.78%

Roxanne Shante getting Warner Brothers to pay for her Ph.D at Cornell is the kind of badass gangsta shit I want to see from more of our rappers.

BUY

The Cleveland Show*

Potential controversies aside -- the shit is gonna be funny.

Oh yeah, there'll be some black folk that'll hate it.  But when have Negroes agreed on anything?

SELL

Jayson Blair

The new life coach's first piece of advice: don't plagiarize.

*Author admits to a professional bias in this assessment