Even African princes get the blues

Dear J’Mel How fortunate and blessed it is today to write to you. I am writing because I have a terrible situation. I am Prince Aweemaway of a country in a small place in Africa. The bad men hav

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"I’m sighing as hard as I can”

By J'Mel Davidson

A couple of weeks ago I snapped my phone in half. It was bound to happen eventually — we live in an age where we are always tethered to some piece of expensive technology that isn’t necessarily design

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Welcome to the neighborhood

By J'Mel Davidson

I pretended to rake the front yard and tried my best to keep a straight face as they loaded up the Taurus wagon with their vacation essentials. They were almost finished moving in. Feeling as though I

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The Commodore Crack’d: A Malone Twins Mystery

By J'Mel Davidson

Everyone in the room had had a reason to want Commodore Cusack dead. So far, they’d all been too clever or too lucky for Malone to single out one of them. His only chance was to gather them together a

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Strokeversary: one year since my brain stopped

By J'Mel Davidson

A year ago this week I had a stroke. As soon as the doctors let me go home I wrote about it. I want to share that article with you again because, well, it was a pretty big deal and I really don’t thin

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Considering toddler butter beat-downs

By J'Mel Davidson

I’m sure it’s happened to you, too… An out-of-towner asks you the simple yet damning question “What is there to do in Birmingham?” You mention the Civil Rights Institute. You begrudgingly mentio

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“Whoa. What is going on?”

By J'Mel Davidson

I watched Twilight “I’m writing a book about vampires.” “Sweet! Classic rules, right? Burn in the sun, can’t enter your home uninvited, cast no reflection… ” “No, I said VAMPIRES! Go where the

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Valentine’s Day is Balls

It is the American way to celebrate openly and with much vigor the fact that you have something that others may not.

By Kyle Whitmire

Or: A few of my favorite things By J'Mel Davidson Geez, is it that time of year again? Time flies when you’re trying to avoid the one day a year where it’s actually encouraged for people to force th

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Black Present Month

What’s important is that you clip and save this article. It may spare you a mattress-spring shanking in the near future.

By Kyle Whitmire

Or: how to win friends and avoid being punched By J'Mel Davidson Here we are again, at the beginning of the shortest month of the year — Black History Month! It’s a leap year this year so let’s leap p