I just found out I was mentioned as a WordPress-using blog consultant in WordPress For Dummies, by Lisa Sabin-Wilson and Matt Mullenweg.
Lisa and I go way back. I started out on Blogger.com in November 2003. I soon realized I needed my own domain and a new look. I searched for a blog designer, found Lisa at E. Webscapes, and learned she also hosted blogs (see Blogs-About).
The WordPress blog platform was fairly new at the time, and Lisa specialized in setting up WordPress blogs. Movable Type was the hottest platform, but I said, “Sure, why not? I’ll go with WP.”
Since then, Lisa’s created two designs for me (and I’m in desperate need of a new one for 2008), and she’s still hosting LBC. And I have no complaints. I highly recommend the very patient and generous Lisa’s design and hosting services. Since I first contacted her, she’s blown up. And still cool. Check out her blog, Just A Girl In The World.
Thanks for the mention, Lisa, and I look forward to reading your book. 
I freed thousands of slaves. I could have freed thousands more, if they had known they were slaves. – Harriet Tubman
The physical chains of American slavery may be broken, but the mental chains are still there. That’s the message of filmmaker Janks Morton’s 84-minute documentary, What Black Men Think.
Stereotypes and myths perpetuated by the government, the media, and so-called black leadership about black men fuel an “undeclared civil war” between black men and women, according to Morton. The film features man-on-the-street interviews, interspersed with commentary from conservative and moderate black writers like Shelby Steele, actor Joseph C. Phillips, Jesse L. Peterson, John McWhorter, Armstrong Williams, FOX News analyst Juan Williams, former Maryland lieutenant governor Michael Steele, Mychal Massie, and Earl Ofari Hutchinson.
Morton was inspired to make the documentary after hearing an alarming and well-known statistic. While watching a C-SPAN debate between Juan Williams and professor and author Michael Eric Dyson, he heard Williams say that 70 percent of black babies were born out of wedlock. Morton said he didn’t believe him until he looked it up.
Continue reading What Black Men Think.
by La Shawn on 01.21.08
in Faith
The latest issue of The Jerusalem Connection, edited by my former pastor Dr. James Hutchens, is a special issue called “The Black/Israel Nexus.” The man on the cover is Bishop Harry Jackson, who pastors a church in Southern Maryland.
My article, “Blessing Israel: Black Christians and Jews,” appears on page 2. You may download a PDF copy of the issue at the web site.
Update: Darnell “Independent Conservative” McGavock, quoted in the article, responds.
Thirty-five years ago today, the U.S. Supreme Court legalized 
