The Golden Globes opened by presenting Mo’Nique the award for best-supporting actress for her role as Mary Jones in the movie Precious. Mo’Nique played a self-hating, abusive, evil mother to an over-weight, abused teenager. The movie is based on the novel, Push by Sapphire. After watching the film and seeing the life Precious was...
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After two days of what has become the Earthquake felt around the world, the catastrophic disaster that struck Port-au-Prince, Haiti remains heavy on many hearts. It seems symbolic that this would be my inaugural piece for the Watering Hole, but as a Haitian man and someone who is currently still searching for his loved...
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One of the reasons I moved to New York was because of its diversity and ability to accept people from all walks of life. Little did I know that the diversity would look like me. One of the first people to greet me at the airport was a West Indian man (not sure of...
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Evangelical broadcaster Pat Robertson says Haiti has been “cursed” because of what he called a “pact with the devil” in its history. Robertson cites a pact made with the devil by Haitians to end slavery in the 1700s. The first amendment allows for many freedoms. One of which is allowing idiots to have a...
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In every corner of the world people dream of growing up and enter a profession doing something they love. For many black children in American inner cities that dream is to have a future in professional sports. (Although this aspect of inner city life needs to be broaden to have more images of black...
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