Nikki Giovanni: Bicycles Love Poems

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Is there a correlation between Bicycles and love poems? Nikki Giovanni suggest that there is.

Listen to Ms. Giovanni’s interview with Febone1960.net as she discusses love, life, tragedy and her new book of love poems entitled Bicycles. Click the photo above to access the interview. It along with the book will make you smile.

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Whining Joe Either Help Or Shut Up!

Whining Joe is at it again. Well let me digress a little. Most of you know him as Morning Joe or former Congressman Joe Scarborough. The operative word here is former.

Every morning Whining Joe spends three hours complaining about our President for doing his job. Joe who insist that the President just stick to the economy is now complaining about a special Olympic joke our Prez made on Leno last night.

Whining Joe and his sidekick meat head Mika spent most of the morning talking how awful it is for our President to make fun of the Special Olympics. News flash: he was poking fun at himself.

Further, the guy is bright. Unlike your one track mind, he is capable of working on more than one problem at a time. That’s a good thing, because your fellow republicans left the country with many. Your party that you now stand away from has virtually bankrupt the country.

Do you have a solution? Well the fact that you are a former Congressman suggest that you don’t. No, Joe, don’t get it twisted. Whining is not a solution. Nor is blaming minorities for the housing dilemma. Blaming Black folks and Hispanics for all that is wrong with America is old. It’s stale and you and your fellow greedy gringos need to give it up and look into the mirror at the real problem.

Whining Joe, either help or shut up!

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From Brown To Cornelius: Calling Real Men To Step Up To The Plate

The problem of abusing women has reared it’s ugly head again and the latest offender is Don Cornelius who was recently sentenced in Los Angeles to three years’ probation after pleading no contest to misdemeanor spousal battery.

Court records show Cornelius’ attorney entered the plea on the “Soul Train” creator’s behalf on Wednesday.

Cornelius was charged in November with spousal battery, assault with a deadly weapon and dissuading a witness from making a police report, all misdemeanors.

The 72-year-old was arrested a month earlier after police were called to his Hollywood Hills home following a report of domestic dispute.

Records indicate the other charges were dismissed as part of Cornelius’ plea agreement. He was ordered not to use threats or force against anyone, including his wife Victoria, and must attend a yearlong domestic violence course.

The question is whether you can teach this old dog a new trick of walking away and not hitting a woman.

Chris Brown's recent arrest has placed some well deserve attention on this long standing problem.

Oprah Winfrey has dedicated two shows to the problem since the arrest of Brown for the brutal beating of girlfriend singer Rihanna. On her most recent show, author activist Kevin Powell, stated that abusing is an addiction. “I think it’s a form of mental illness to commit any form of violence against a female or a male,” he says. “I think we’ve got to strive for a society that’s rooted in nonviolence.”

Kevin Powell has an inside look into the mind of a domestic abuser—he used to be one. When he was 25 years old, his temper was caught on camera during MTV’s first season of The Real World. Off camera, Kevin says he was also abusive to women and sought counseling. For the past 18 years, he’s been working with men across the country to end violence against women.

The first step? “Having the courage to own your mistakes,” he says. “That’s something I had to do.”

That doesn’t only apply to men who’ve abused in the past—Kevin says every man must step up if they see the men around them engaging in abusive behavior. “Your silence is agreement and participation,” Kevin says.

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