"Process" written by "wriTeRsbLoCk"

You learn to love them; you can't live without them and yearn to hug them. This type of love you're feeling is something others thought wasn't. You're in your own world and she's the center of it. She's your permanent smile. She is more than fashion, she is your style and your secret covenant. You go hand in hand. The perfect match. You'll do anything for her and put yourself last. You always listen when she confides in you. When no one else is there, she relies on you. She's your other half and she feels uncomfortable when she is not with you. It's more than attraction with the two of you, it's spiritual. Others are jealous of it and don't know what to make of it. You guys never mind them because you are each other. You look in the mirror and you see her, but without her your whole vision is skewed and blurred. Smoke and mirrors is what they try to tell you she is. She is more than reality. All it takes is a simple kiss. Its like music whenever she is around. Your heart dances while your mind wonders. No other lady comes before her and no other guy comes before you.

Ashanti "The Way That I Love You" Video

Ashanti -The Way That I Love You
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I know I've been posting a lot of videos, but I couldn't resist this one. I can't lie, I've watched this video about 6 times in a row. I enjoy it that much! Ashanti has matured quite well over the last few years and this video proves it. It's different from anything I've seen her do in the past, and watching it made me feel like a proud sister. Her acting has advanced very well because I felt what she was saying. I believed it and most of all I received the point. Keven Bray directed it, and I must say he did a great job. When I first heard this song... I liked it, but wasn't impressed. It's been a hard road for Ashanti to "Comeback". She really needed to think outside the box and do something different. Not only different for what she has previously done, but different from everyone else too. I think she did that with this one. Nobody else has a video even close to this. It shows a side of her we rarely get to see. However, I have to say, I'm a little confused about the end, did she kill him or not? Whatever, I still enjoyed it. Also, I didn't hear her say BABY one time lol. If that's not growth, I didn't know what is.

Jay-Z and Mary J. Blige will tour this spring!

Two of my favorite artist are going to tour together! Ask anyone who knows me and they'll tell you I'm a big Jay-z fan. Almost anything that man does I'm behind it. Mary is my girl and to see her as happy and healthy as she is, is exceptional! Jay-Z and Mary J. Blige will tour this spring in what will be one of the most potent urban music bills in recent memory. The "Heart of the City" outing begins March 22 in Miami. And while a full itinerary is still coming together, the artists are confirmed to hit markets such as New Orleans, Houston, Las Vegas, Boston, Philadelphia and Los Angeles. Tickets go on sale Feb. 15. Blige and Jay-Z have been close collaborators since 1996, when she appeared on his early hit "Can't Knock the Hustle." Here are the initial Heart of the City tour dates: March 22: Miami (American Airlines Arena) March 26: Baltimore (1st Mariner Arena) March 27: Uniondale, N.Y. (Nassau Coliseum) March 28: East Rutherford, N.J. (Izod Center) March 30: Philadelphia (Wachovia Center) April 2: Toronto (Air Canada Centre) April 3: Boston (TD Banknorth Garden) April 5: Greensboro, N.C. (Greensboro Coliseum) April 6: Washington, D.C. (Verizon Center) April 16: Los Angeles (Hollywood Bowl

Walter Mosley an influential African American History contributor

Born on January 12, 1952, in Los Angeles, California. Mosley is considered one of today’s leading novelists, especially in the genre of mysteries. He grew up as the only child of an African American father and a Jewish mother—a diverse background that often surfaces in his work. Mosley graduated from Johnston State College in 1977. After college, he worked a number of jobs and moved to New York City in the early 1980s. Around this time, Mosley worked as a computer programmer. But after a few years he quit to study writing at City College of New York (CCNY). With the help of a teacher’s literary agent, Mosley sold his first book, Devil in a Blue Dress (1990). Set in the post-World War II Los Angeles’ Watts neighborhood, the mystery earned strong reviews and was the first in the series of Easy Rawlins novels. Rawlins is an African American soldier who returns from the war, works as a private detective, and often wrestles with issues of race and morality. Several more Easy Rawlins mysteries soon followed: A Red Death (1991), White Butterfly (1992), Black Betty (1994), and A Little Yellow Dog (1995). Cinnamon Kiss (2005) is the most recent title in this series. Mosley created other series as well. Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned (1997) and Walkin’ the Dog (1999) follow Socrates Fortlow, an ex-con released from prison after serving more than 20 years for rape and murder. Fearless Jones, another Mosley character, appears in a 2001 novel by the same name and 2003’s Fear Itself. Besides his fiction series, Mosley has explored several other genres, including science fiction with Blue Light (1998) and The Wave (2006). He has also written for young adults, resulting in the critically acclaimed 47. This imaginative work tells the story of a slave boy who seeks to gain his freedom. Mosley is exploring opportunities beyond the printed page. Many of Mosley’s books have been turned into movies. His first novel was made into the 1995 film Devil in the Blue Dress starring Denzel Washington as Easy Rawlins. There have reports that a film of the Easy Rawlins novel, Little Scarlet, in the works with Mosley serving as the project’s screenwriter. During his long career, Mosley has received numerous awards, including an O’Henry Award in 1996 and a Grammy Award in 2002 for the album best liner notes for Richard Pryor . . . And It’s Deep, Too! He also received an honorary doctorate degree from City College in New York. Mosley now lives in New York with his family.

Max Azria: Fashion Designer

I’m such a big fan of sexy banded silhouette dresses that I had to apply this post. Max Azria is such a phenomenal designer, and if I could afford his creations, I’d wear nothing else….unfortunately, I can’t cant. So, until I become an international entertainment correspondent, I’ll just dream about these dresses. Max Azria premiered updated designs for the newly ran Herve Leger label. Founded by Herve Leger (now Hervé L. Leroux) in 1985, Azria acquired the label in 1998 and since then, has made an already well known label even more demanded with publicity on the red carpet…

Over Heard in New York- Shamefully Funny

I was over at "Over Heard in New York", and ever time I visit, I find something shamefully funny. Here's an over heard conversation I thought was sad, yet entertaining lol. If I was the guy who lent this man my phone, I'd snached it right outta his hand as soon as he started this bull. Guy: Excuse me, brotha, may I borrow your phone for two minutes? Old man: Sure. Guy, on phone: Wassup, baby? I'm on the line for the liquor store right now... What the f**k you mean 'What line'? The line to get into the fu**in' liquor store! ... I said, the fu**in' line fo' the fu**in' liquor store! You f**kin' retarded? I said the fu**in'-- Oh, okay. [Hangs up, handing the phone back] She already got the liquor!

Bonjour, et bonjour!

Hello, and good morning everyone.

Throw Back! Tevin Campbell- Can we Talk

Can we talk.... for minute? Girl I want to know ya name! OMG This song takes me back! I was so in love with sir Champbell, but lil did I know he wanted my brother. (I no, dead wrong right lol). It's funny, cause now when I watch this video, he really looks gay. Now, there's nothing wrong with that, I'm just saying. I'm a lot more mature and some things just so happen to look different now lol. One being that damn Vest lol. Ohhhh Nooooo lol. Okay, it was the early 90s I no, I no. All in all, Tevin was the man back then. He had every teeny bopper going crazy over him guys and girls lol. Okay I'ma stop now lmao. Enjoy!

Throw Back! Baby Face- Everytime I close my eyes

I couldn't help myself lol.

Baby Face- Everytime I Close My Eyes
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Throw Back! Ashanti- Rain on me

I remember when this video came out..... I instantly was drawn to it. It was different because, nobody was singing about Domestic Violence at all. As unfortunate yet common as it is, you would think it would be up for discussion more often. Ashanti was one of the first female artist who tactfully brought awareness to this ongoing issue. Music is very powerful in that since. Sometimes just hearing a song or viewing a video, can help you out in so many ways you never thought possible. In my opinion, I enjoyed the song. I felt it had meaning, and substance, but most of all I think it has help many people going threw similar issues.

Throw Back! India Arie - The Truth

India.Arie - The Truth
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As soon as I heard this song I fell in love with it. I appreciated it because it was so positive and had a deep emotional meaning. She praised her man, not because of what he looked like or what he might have brought her. She praised him for who he was, but most of all who he was with her, and what they had together. It's somewhat strange, because I believed every word she sung as if they were sitting right in front of me. I felt the realness, the pureness, the originality. There are so many songs out today, which talk about how man are no good, selfish, womanizers, and dehumanizing themselves even. But listening to this song made you think of men who were proud and respectful of women and themselves. Loving men, powerful men, family men. We need more songs that empower us today. I love it!

Throw-back! Tyrese- Sweet Lady

Tyrese Sweet Lady
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Super Bowl: wriTeRsbLoCk

I no we're days late with our post, but better late than never right? Patriots would not succumb to such a drive but return a drive of their own and score a touchdown which ended the half 3 to 7 ! Giants kept going at Tom Brady continuous blitzes which led to a total 6 sacks! Poor guy hasn't seen that many sacks since Idaho potatoes! Lol ! Through it all the Giants conjured up a touch of their own! Touchdowns pass from Eli to David Tyree! This gave them some comfort but not for long! Brady in return dropped a touchdown to Randy Moss which put the Patriots in from 14 to 10 ! You would think the Giants would fret being down with score like this and with 35 seconds left Eli Manning threads a pass to Plaxico Burrges!! Wow! Magic in the making! This was the icing on the cake! This all the doubters in their wildest dreams did not entertain! The Patriots on the brink of saying goodbye to their 4th Super Bowl title! Only 29 seconds left; nothing else to do but let defeat take control! The Giants did it! Non-believers were in awe and now the city that once has been plagued with no sports titles in over 8 years since the Yankees! The knicks are a far promise and Jets can't seem to get it together! The Big Apple, the city that never sleeps has something to stay awake for now! Congratulations Giants!!!

Babies are cute no matter what.

Super Tuesday: Obama---Clinton Battle it out!!!!

Energized Democratic voters turned out in high numbers as an unprecedented 22 states held Democratic primaries and caucuses, but all those voters in all those states did little to determine a Democratic front-runner. Video Democrats Battle for DelegatesObama appears to have won the most states, picking up victories in Illinois, Idaho, Colorado, Minnesota, Connecticut, Utah, North Dakota, Kansas, Delaware, Missouri, Georgia and Alabama, according to an analysis of exit polls and the vote count. "We can take a punch, we're still standing," he told reporters in Chicago today, despite a brutal primary schedule that he said " was set up to deliver a knockout blow on Feb. 5" Clinton Wins California Primary Clinton won the delegate-rich states of California and New York, the largest and second-largest states to vote Tuesday night. Clinton also picked up victories in Massachusetts, New Jersey, Arizona, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Arkansas, where she and her husband have deep roots. A record number of Hispanic voters — a key demographic targeted by Clinton — turned out to the polls in California, according to preliminary exit polls. Neither Democratic candidate was able to declare a Super Tuesday victory, but Obama struck a defiant tone today, pointing out he is thriving even in the face of attacks from the Clinton campaign. "The Clinton research operation is about as good as anybody's out there," he said. "I assure you that having engaged in a contest against them for the last year, that they've pulled out all the stops." Obama and Clinton returned to Washington today to conduct Senate business, before returning to the campaign. Delegate War Despite trading victories with Obama, Clinton comes out of Super Tuesday the way she went in, leading in the delegate count. ABC News estimates that to date, Clinton now has 872 delegates, Obama has 793. You need 2,025 delegates to win the Democratic nomination. These numbers do not include delegates from too-close-to-call states like Missouri and New Mexico. "We feel like we've had a good night, but this contest is far from over," Clinton's chief strategist Mark Penn told reporters. Obama campaign manager David Plouffe countered: "We're having an outstanding night. We're ahead currently in the number of states won … and we think the delegates are very close."

"Work To Do" - Kidz In The Hall & Barack Obama '08

I was over at yellowrebel.blogspot.com and ran across this video. I'm a big Obama supporter, and I'm ecstatic that there are so many young adults involved in this year election. I was told today that 20% more Americans voted this year appose to last year, which is really good!! This is my first time voting, (happy, happy, joy, joy lol) and to be able to vote for someone I admire and support is phenomenal to me. Yesterday was Super Tuesday and all of the nominees came out swinging. Okay, not literally, but it was somewhat similar to a heavy weight fight. According to Abc News, Sens. Barack Obama of Illinois and Hillary Clinton of New York traded Super Tuesday victories in an expectedly tight Democratic race that has turned into a fierce battle for convention delegates. More info about Tuesday night in the post above ^^^^^

Zora Neale Hurston an influential African American History contributor

Zora Neale Hurston (1901?-1960) African-American writer, b. Notasulga, Ala. She grew up in the pleasant all-black town of Eatonville, Fla. and, moving north, graduated from Barnard College, where she studied with Franz Boas. Her placid childhood and privileged academic background are often cited as major reasons for her work's general lack of stress on racism, a characteristic so unlike such contemporaries as Richard Wright. An anthropologist and folklorist, Hurston collected African-American folktales in the rural South and sympathetically interpreted them in the collections Mules and Men (1935) and Tell My Horse (1938). A third volume of tales, Every Tongue Got to Confess, was discovered in manuscript and published in 2001. Hurston, a significant figure in the Harlem Renaissance, was also the author of four novels including Jonah's Gourd Vine (1934) and the influential Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937). Her plays include the comedy Mule Bone (1931), written in collaboration with her friend Langston Hughes. Zora Neale Hurston wrote this famous quote: I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. . . . Even in the helter-skelter skirmish that is my life, I have seen that the world is to the strong regardless of a little pigmentation more or less. No, I do not weep at the world—I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife. "How It Feels to Be Colored Me" (1928)

Du Bois, W. E. B. an influential African American History contributor

Du Bois, W. E. B. 1868–1963, American civil-rights leader and author, b. Great Barrington, Mass., grad. Harvard (B.A., 1890; M.A., 1891; Ph.D., 1895). Du Bois was an early exponent of full equality for African Americans and a cofounder (1905) of the Niagara Movement, which became (1909) the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Unlike Booker T. Washington, who believed that unskilled blacks should focus on economic self-betterment, and Marcus Garvey, who advocated a “back to Africa” movement, Du Bois demanded that African Americans should achieve not only economic parity with whites in the United States but full and immediate civil and political equality as well. Also, he introduced the concept of the “talented tenth,” a black elite whose duty it was to better the lives of less fortunate African Americans. From 1897 to 1910, Du Bois taught economics and history at Atlanta Univ. In 1910 he became editor of the influential NAACP magazine, Crisis, a position he held until 1934. That year he resigned over the question of voluntary segregation, which he had come to favor over integration, and returned to Atlanta Univ. (1934–44). His concern for the liberation of blacks throughout the world led him to organize the first (Paris, 1919) of several Pan-African Congresses. In 1945, at the Fifth Congress in Manchester, England, he met with the African leaders Kwame Nkrumah and Jomo Kenyatta. In 1961 he became a member of the American Communist party, and shortly thereafter he renounced his American citizenship. In the last two years of his life Du Bois lived in Ghana. His books include The Souls of Black Folks (1903), The Negro (1915), Black Reconstruction in America (1935), Color and Democracy (1945), The World and Africa (1947), and In Battle for Peace: The Story of My 83rd Birthday (1952). Mr. Du Bois, W. E. B. said this famous quote: It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others. . . . One ever feels his twoness,—an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warnings ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.

Mary Mclead Bethune, an influential African American History contributor

Mary McLeod Bethune (1875–1955), American educator, b. Mayesville, S.C., grad. Moody Bible Institute, Chicago, 1895. The 17th child of former slaves, she taught (1895–1903) in a series of southern mission schools before settling in Florida to found (1904) the Daytona Normal and Industrial Institute for Negro Girls. From 1904 to 1942 and again from 1946 to 1947, she served as president of the institute, which, after merging with Cookman Institute (1923), became Bethune-Cookman College. A leader in the American black community, she founded the National Council of Negro Women (1935) and was director (1936–44) of Negro Affairs of the National Youth Administration. In addition, she served as special adviser on minority affairs to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. At the 1945 conference that organized the United Nations, she was a consultant on interracial understanding. She wrote this famous quote: If we accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination, we accept the responsibility ourselves and allow those responsible to salve their conscience by believing that they have our acceptance and concurrence. We should, therefore, protest openly everything . . . that smacks of discrimination or slander.

Black History Month part one.

Americans have recognized black history annually since 1926, first as "Negro History Week" and later as "Black History Month." What you might not know is that black history had barely begun to be studied-or even documented-when the tradition originated. Although blacks have been in America at least as far back as colonial times, it was not until the 20th century that they gained a respectable presence in the history books. I was visiting Info Please and found great information on influential balack people. I've posted some above.

Black History Month

Greetings everyone, It's the beginning of Black History Month as we all no and what a good feeling that is. African Americans have come such a long way in this country, and this month is a reflection of it. So with that said, Exclusively Written will be making numerous posts on what African Americans have contributed to countries and cultures around the globe.