Love, Laughter and Food for the Soul: The Gabe and Babe VLOG/Blog

While perusing Youtube recently, I came upon this wonderful VLOG put up by an interracial couple living in small-town Tennessee. Chad and Gabrielle, who go by the monikers Babe and Gabe(Gabe being the shortened version of the pronunciation of Gabrielle's name) have been delighting their viewers with stories of their courtship, August 2011 wedding, and their adventures together. Between the VLOG, gflowerso2 Youtube channel, which covers such subjects as walks to Walmart, moments with their families, delicious homemade and restaurant food and their adorable newborn son Chad Ryan, to Gabrielle's blog The Gabe Fix  which further chronicles their beautiful and rich life, their love for each other shines through and brings much joy to the Youtube and internet universes.

Happy Birthday Delta Sigma Theta

Delta Sigma Theta sorority, founded on this day 100 years ago on the campus of Howard University has had, since its beginning, a tradition of service to the community and boasted such luminaries as Lena Horne, Mary McLeod Bethune and Dorothy Height as members. Delta Sigma Theta celebrates 100 years

Happy 2013

Another year has come upon us, and with it, hope for all the great wonders of life. Happy New Year my dear readers!

Denver in Color

I was looking at my Facebook stream recently and lo and behold, on the Loving Day page, there was posted information on Denver in Color, a coffee table book that honors black/white interracial couples in the Denver area. It heartens me that the recognition of the interracial community is getting wider and I wish them all the greatest.

Something in the Water and the Soul

Much has happened in this big wide world since I last posted oh so many months ago. Three much-publicized and horrifying events have put my brain matter into overtime. These situations became just the latest in a growing trend of those who have easy access to arms and use them in the most destructive ways possible. Firstly, there is this week's latest mass shooting, this time in Connecticut and of an especially heinous nature as it involved the killing of young children. Although at this point, it doesn't seem a clear motive has been established, many of these shootings tend to stem from unresolved mental health issues. Then there is the February shooting death of Trayvon Martin and the recent killing of Jordan Davis, both 17-year old black males from Florida whose lives came to abrupt ends at the hands of people with different racial backgrounds than their own.(Trayvon's killer George Zimmerman is of mixed Peruvian and white heritage, Jordan Davis' killer Michael Dunn is white). Although the legal process must be respected and the facts be allowed to play out in court, it angers me that we must sit here yet again and even entertain the slightest notion that both incidents may have been tempered by racial animosity and it grieves me that we as a nation are still mired in this stale state. I understand that racism ain't magically done just because we've twice elected a black President, but it's frustrating to realize that there are still those in this country whose ideologies are so static and deeply ingrained that they cower at any ripple of progress and the presence of those they deem too different from the old standard.

Whitney, We Will Always Love You

On Saturday night, I received a text from a friend wondering if there were any truth behind news that Whitney Houston, the legendary singer, had died. Upon subsequently checking the news outlets on my laptop, I was smacked with confirmation that the 48-year old entertainer had indeed passed away. I returned her text with this shocking news and went about texting others, wondering if they'd heard as well. Of course, in this age of instant communication, they had, and the tributes flooded in. For many of us who were children of the '80's, the death of this singularly talented woman, whose powerful vocals were a regular part of our youth, this comes as an acute loss and she will be missed. Rest well, Whitney, you and your music are eternal.

Ahh... Slavery, Good Times!

Slavery Museum, a photo by timbrauhn on Flickr.

The madness that is the new conservatism rages on. Here for your reading pleasure is the brand-spankin' new version of the peculiar institution that a Tennessee faction of the Tea Party is trying to sell us. Tea Party Groups In Tennessee Demand Textbooks Overlook U.S. Founder's Slave-Owning History