Gimme a pig's foot and a bottle of beer..

Feasting on Asphalt is the new Alton Brown series on Food TV.

This is a brilliant non-series. Someone has got to Youtube this shit.


Fucking Irish People. You can't trust anyone born on an island.

And why the fuck did FashionRocks come with my Architectural Digest?

Are negores making inroads into our high-end style?

And by the way, I'm part negro and part Irish. I was responsible for the term Black Irish.


USA Today had an interesting opinion piece published Friday on the demise of black cowboys echoing in baseball.

Though the traditional Western movies failed to include them, 25% of cowboys in the Old West were African-American, according to Philip Durham and Everett Jones in their book, The Negro Cowboys.

Hmm, just one more thing I never learned in school. Chalk it right up there with Black Indians.


Kitty Cloud Taylor and her sister of the Ute

It happened that life crossed Africans and Native Americans together into one circle.
This was in April, 1502, when the first Africans kidnapped were brought to Hispanola to serve as slaves. Some escaped and somewhere inland on Santo Dominico life birthed the first circle of Black Indians.

Some black Indians have a dual ancestry of African and Native American bloodlines. Others are black people who have lived with Native Americans and maintain their cultural-ceremonial traditions.

The link to africanamericans.com has links to other resources concerning this interesting facet of American history.