Black Canada Talking™ and Black America Talking … The 2020 American Election...
Dr. Vibe asks a panel of Black American and Black Canadian thought leaders for their takes after the most recent American election. Dr. Vibe asks El Jones, Aisha K. Staggers, Jill Jones, Warren...
View ArticleBlack Woman’s Burden: How Stacey Abrams, The K Hive, and Black Women...
You never have to ask anyone permission to lead. — Vice President Elect Kamala Harris My daughter loves this picture. She understands the significance of this moment. And her future is brighter....
View ArticleTHE LAST SCAM STANDING: Trump, The GOP, and Picking up the Pieces of America
Logic is an enemy and truth is a menace. — Rod Serling CAN YOU! FEEL A! BRAND NEW DAAAAAY! When my daughter and I heard about the Biden-Harris win? We strutted arm-in-arm like Diana Ross and Micheal...
View ArticleA Welcoming Letter for the Incoming President
Last week I wrote a letter to the outgoing President entitled An Incoming Letter for the Outgoing President. It felt only appropriate to pen one for Joe Biden since it is not likely x infinity that...
View ArticleKamala Harris: Vice-President Elect of the United States
By Stephen G. Hall, PhD, Electoral Victory Election Highlights: Biden Winds Presidency, Calling for End of ‘Grim Era’ (NYT, 11/7/2020) https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/11/07/us/biden-trump Kamala...
View ArticleWill the Progressive Left Sabotage the Biden-Harris Administration?
Dr. Vibe asks two Black American women thought leaders about the signs from the progressive left of the Democratic party that they are not happy with some aspects of the Biden-Harris administration Dr....
View ArticleThe Politics of Winning
Something Of A Sport My sons had no problems deciphering who I was voting for in the 2020 Presidential Election. When my Biden-Harris bumper stickers arrived, the boys advised me on where to place them...
View ArticleVotes With Unforeseen Consequences
On the local or national levels, democracy requires that voters pay closer attention. I voted a straight ticket one time in my life. It was unwise and I regret it. The reason was the second Gulf War....
View ArticleD.C. Riot? What D.C. Riot? – Democrats to Take Senate as Warnock & Ossoff Win...
At first, I was angry when I saw how they treated the insurrectionists at the Capitol. – Behold. white privilege is violently storming and looting the capitol,tearing down the USA flag and...
View ArticleWelcome 46: Imagining Four Years
On inauguration day, I imagine… Four years without worrying that the White House will create new rules that target me as a gay person and my friends as transgender people… Four years where the...
View ArticleThe Inauguration of Hope Has Begun
I woke up to snow, huge flakes dancing, not falling, but spinning in the wind. Playful. I haven’t seen the heavens be so playful for years. But here it is, the earth dancing. To see trees and people,...
View ArticleThe Last White Man
Thank you, Universe She wasn’t a Trader Joe’s shopper. How, you might ask, did I know? It’s kind of like when U.S. Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart in 1964 tried to explain what hard-core porn...
View ArticleA Friend Said President Biden’s Inauguration Was a ‘Sad Day For America.’ I’m...
This is a sad day for America. That’s all a former friend of ours could post on social media during the Inauguration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. A sad day. I wondered what made her sad watching it:...
View ArticleKamala Harris and the Vice-Presidency of the United States
By Stephen Hall This informational blog provides important information from various sources on Kamala Harris. It includes Campaign informatiion, Official Sources, Social Media, Political Information,...
View ArticleGetting Better
The Beatles sang it. Now I feel it. I’m not saying things are great. For many, they are not. I’m not even saying good. I’m saying better. It’s qualitative. It’s relative. It’s palpable. It’s real. I...
View ArticleBlack Women Have Always Been Leaders for Voting Rights
By Noelani Kirschner | Sherry L. Brukbacher “Black women come from a legacy of activism. And that legacy started even when they were not free, when they were enslaved, and it continued after...
View ArticleAmerican Racism: Tim Scott, Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, and The Republican Party
“Hear me clearly America is not a racist country. I have personally experienced ‘the pain of discrimination’ — being pulled over for no reason and followed around in stores.” This statement was made by...
View ArticlePresident Biden’s First 100 Days and More Current Events
On the May 1, 2021 edition of Staggers State Of Things, the topics that the ladies talked about were: Joe Biden’s first 100 days American VP Kamala Harris and Senator Tim Scott saying that America is...
View ArticleWhat Would You Say to Your Future Self?
A year ago, I came across a really cool website called Future Me through which you can write a letter to the self that you will be sometime in a turn of a calendar page. I chose to pen one for the me I...
View ArticleWhen ‘Reform’ Becomes a Tool of the Abuser
When audio surfaced of Jeopardy’s executive producer, Mike Richards, making crude, sexist comments to a woman co-hosting his 2014 podcast, he lost the opportunity to take over as Jeopardy’s new...
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