Why are black women just the best friends and mammies on Prime Time Television?

The new television season has seen a surge of TV shows that are female centered programs. The Bionic woman on NBC lead by Michelle Ryan and on ABC Kate Walsh the former star of Grey’s Anatomy has her own show “Private Practice.” Ryan and Walsh are both young, attractive, white women. Asian American actress [...]

Liberals are in the lead Tory’s faith based voting scheme failed

      I just listened to 680 news and it looks like the Liberal Party lead by the current Premier Dalton McGuinty may be heading towards another majority government. The Progressive Conservative leader John Tory’s faith base vote scheme has backfired. According to the polls the Liberals are now in a solid lead with 43% and [...]

Book Review: The Big Sea Langston Hughes first memoir

I just finished reading Langston Hughes first memoir “The Big Sea”. I love Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston so much they are my favourite writers. I really can’t choose between Langston and Zora both are incredible writers and they mean so much to me. I love them both.
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Domestic Violence And Violence Against Women Should Be An Election Issue. Why Are We Ignoring The Violence of Heterosexual Men?

           I just woke up this afternoon around 2:20pm and a woman is on the line   from the Progressive Conservative party. The lady  says “hello this is the PC Party would you consider voting for John Tory?” And I just said “absolutely not.” And that was the end of the phone conversation. There is no way in hell I [...]

The TTC Not the Better Way at 4:00 am

I just need to vent. I was on the TTC for those of you that don’t know the TTC stands for the Toronto Transit Commission. The TTC is the bus service people in the Greater Toronto Area use. Anyway its 4:ooam and for the past month whenever I go out downtown to Toronto [...]

bell hooks talks about media racism and OJ. Why is the public and media Ignoring The Megan Williams Case?

         Even though this bell hooks documentary is over a decade old it still is very important. The clip is about the OJ Simpson case from over a decade ago but bell hooks also talks about the “othering” and the ways in which the mainstream American media manipulate the minds of the public.   [...]

Which party is is the lesser of two evils the Liberals or the NDP?

I watched Global news last night and the topic of discussion was the Ontario Provincial election. We are living in a dystopian era right now in the province of Ontario. My analysis was correct that most Ontario voters don’t care about the Progressive Conservative party leader John Tory’s early election smoke screen about “faith [...]

I Miss In Living Color: Men on Film

          I remember when I was a kid in the early 1990s  I used to watch “In Living Color” every Sunday night on FOX.  The show is way better then SNL that’s for sure. “In Living Color” was controversial but also very entertaining as well. The best skit of the series has definitely got [...]

bell hooks Talks About Racism And Sexism In Film and pop culture.

As usual whenever Hollywood wants to make a movie about violent male characters you just know that men of colour are going to be depicted as evil. Jodie Foster’s new film “The Brave One” has been receiving a lot of positive press. However, after I watched black feminist bell [...]

Book Review: The Well of Loneliness

I am reviewing the “Well of Loneliness” for a second time because I just felt the urge to revisit this wonderful book. The first time I read the “Well of Loneliness” by British lesbian writer Radclyffe Hall was in the late 1990s. I decided to purchase a copy of the book for myself. [...]