Weed It & Weep! Granny’s Busted
By Urban Thought at 30 April, 2007, 1:20 pm
BY CHRISENA COLEMAN DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER She is 71 years old, a great-grandmother – hardly the type of person you would expect to see in Bronx Criminal Court to answer charges of buying two dime bags of pot. Yet at the appointed time today, Barbara Jackson will make her way to the courthouse, a [...]
Read More >>It Was All Your Fault
By Urban Thought at 19 April, 2007, 9:25 pm
“You decided to spill my blood” are the words that echo in my head. Since when is it my fault that you want to shoot me dead? At what point is it my fault that you are so hurt inside of your heart and head that you have to kill other people? Sure, people didn’t [...]
Read More >>One Dollar, One Dollar: How to ‘Pimp Your Kids’
By The Orange Phoenix at 8 April, 2007, 9:00 am
Maybe I’m showing my age, but I remember the days when there were little old men and women selling chocolate bars and gum out of little carry -on cases as they moved from subway car to subway car. Ah, those were the days, if you got lucky, you could get your sugar fix, buy batteries [...]
Read More >>Mayor Bloomberg Pays Parents To Care for Their Kids
By Urban Thought at 30 March, 2007, 2:15 pm
It isn’t enough to have children and want to see them make a difference in the world, keep your family name going or push them to do better than you’ve done in life, out of love of self and love for your child. No, it isn’t that simple anymore (was it ever?). Mayor Bloomberg has [...]
Read More >>MIA: Missing In Action
By Urban Thought at 26 March, 2007, 9:15 am
With work deadlines to meet I’ll be MIA from the blog today. We all know you can’t have romance without finance. Well, there won’t be a blog without a job and I have one to do today. So I’ll be getting myself in gear to complete a task that was supposed to be done last [...]
Read More >>Swimming in The Inner City
By Urban Thought at 24 March, 2007, 11:35 am
BY RAMONA SHELBURNE For 15-year-old Kristian Keith and her mother, it’s all about pride. And like teenagers in the movie “Pride,” starring Terrence Howard and Bernie Mac, Kristian is in the vanguard of young black swimmers dispelling another racial stereotype. The movie, which opens today, follows swim coach Jim Ellis and his predominantly African-American swim [...]
Read More >>Mayor Bloomberg MIA: NYC Pissed Off
By Urban Thought at 17 March, 2007, 12:00 pm
While a Bronx blaze took the lives of nine people, eight of which were children, Mayor Bloomberg found himself in the warm climate of Miami. Did this sit well with New Yorkers who find it hard to believe that its own Mayor wouldn’t be on site lending his support, grief, and sympathy for the lives [...]
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