Today’s photo of the day shows the legendary Ruby Dee, who received a Screen Actors Guild award for her performance in American Gangster. Congrats!!!!!!!!!

Today’s video of the day is “Ms. Fat Booty” by Mos Def. This is one of the best love stories in hip-hop history!!!!

I’m not a hunter but i am told, that in places like in the Arctic, where indigenous people sometimes might hunt a wolf, they’ll take a double edged blade. And they’ll put blood on the blade, and they’ll melt the ice and stick the handle in the ice,
so that only the blade is protruding. And that a wolf will smell the blood and wants to eat, and it will come and lick the blade trying to eat. And what happens is when the wolf licks the blade, of course, he cuts his tongue, and he bleeds, and he thinks he’s really having a good thing. And he drinks and he licks and he licks, and of course he is drinking his own blood and he kills himself. Thats what the Imperialists did with us with crack cocaine. You have these young brothers out there who think they are getting something they gonna make a living with… They  getting something [so] they can buy a car, like “the white people have cars, why can’t i have a car?” They getting something [so] they can get a piece of gold, “White people have gold, why can’t i have gold?” They getting something to get a house, “White people have a house, why can’t i have a house?” And they actually think that there’s something that’s bringing resources to them, but they’re killing themselves just like the wolf was licking the blade. And they’re slowly dying without knowing it.That’s whats happening to the community, you with me on that? That’s exactly, precisely what happens to the community. And instead of blaming the hunter who put the damn handle and blade in the ice for the wolf, what happens is the wolf gets the blame. Gets the blame for trying to live. That’s what happens in our community. You don’t blame the person, the victim. You blame the oppressor. Imperialism, white power is the enemy, was the enemy when it first came to Africa and snatched up the first African brothers here against our will. [It] is the enemy today, and thats the thing that we have to understand.

Today’s EBM goes to Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick. Since the start of his mayoralty,  Kilpatrick’s antics have made him appear more like Suge Knight than Harold Washington. Still, despite repeated allegations of corruption, infidelity, and rampant unprofessionalism, many of us maintained our support for the “Hip Hop Mayor.” After reviewing more than 14,000 texts messages between the Mayor and Christine Beatty, all on city-issued devices, officials have proof that Kilpatrick lied under oath about an affair with the top aide. Here’s a sample of some of their exchanges:

KK: “I’m madly in love with you.”
CB: “I hope you feel that way for a long time. In case you haven’t noticed, I am madly in love with you, too!”

KK: I’m at Laker game. The security doesn’t believe I’m mayor. Mike is pulling out all kind of shirt to prove it.
CB: And, did you miss me, sexually?
KK: Hell yeah! You couldn’t tell. I want some more. Don’t sleep!

KK: That’s the first time that I couldn’t fully seduce you. My game is off. LOL! Thanx for the conversation and the QT! Love you!
CB: LOL! Your game is way on baby! “you had me at hello!” Jerry McGuire 2000. LOL. I just didn’t want to get caught.

It’s safe to say that a young Black man won’t be able to run for dog catcher of Detroit for at least 20 years.

Former president and kurrent hit man Bill Klinton kontinues to make subtle appeals to race in his advocacy for Hillary. Is he really trying to make Hillary sound like an underdog?

“As far as I can tell, neither Senator Obama nor Hillary have lost votes because of their race or gender. They are getting votes, to be sure, because of their race or gender — that’s why people tell me Hillary doesn’t have a chance of winning here.”