It Is Time To Update Your Fashion....

Now that it is summer time, never over due your look gentlemen. Always keep it simple and clean. During the day you can always do a vintage t-shirt with a color or denim slim pant or jean with a loafer or sneaker. To add a lil something to your look, don't be afraid to wear beaded or leather bracelets to compliment your look. At night, your can do a clean classic look. You can wear a dark denim jean or if you are daring wear a color slim pant with a solid color V-Neck t-shirt with a cardigan or a blazer. To take your look to another level, you can add a pocket square or even a bold shoe like a leopard sneaker or even a color loafer. Now lets say you want to take it up a notch, so I recommend a button up or even a suit with a sneaker or a Cole Hann hard bottom. Don't forget to add a Bow Tie or even a flower lapel pin to top it off.

Just a couple looks to help you out this Summer/Fall

                     

Chrisette Michele Has Done It Again......

The R&B soul singer Chrisetter Michele has done it again with her hit single A Couple Of Forevers. All I have to say is Awesome. I'm a man and this song got me going. If you are single and planning on getting engage, have this song playing in the background and believe me she will say yes. Go out and support her.

If You Got It...Prove It

You say you have the vocal ability, dance talent and musicianship so prove it by auditioning for The Digital Piece Magazine.

Time To Network....

10 Things About Michelle Obama...

What do you really known about Michelle Obama? You might know quite a bit about the woman who will go down in history as one of the most popular first ladies ever, but here are a few things that you might not know:

1) Her middle name is LaVaughn. Her father (Fraser) was a worker at the city water plant and her mother (Marian) was a secretary at a Spiegel’s catalogue store. Her father was involved in politics, working as a Democratic precinct captain in the south side of Chicago.

2)  Michelle’s paternal great-great grandfather, Jim Robinson, was a slave in South Carolina. Her maternal great-great-great-grandmother, Melvinia Shields, was impregnated by a white man.

3) Both Michelle and her older brother Craig skipped the second grade.

4) Michelle went to Whitney Young High School, where she was a classmate of Jesse Jackson’s daughter Santita. She commuted three hours to school every day and graduated Salutatorian of her 1981 class.

 5) Both Michelle and her brother graduated from Princeton.

6) Her graduating thesis at Princeton was called “Princeton-Educated Blacks and the Black Community,” where she said, “I remember being shocked by college students who drove BMWs. I didn’t even know parents who drove BMWs.”

7)  In college, she majored in Sociology and minored in African American studies, graduating c*m laude with a BA in 1985. She then went on to earn her JD at Harvard University in 1988.   During her time at Harvard, she participated in demonstrations to get the law school to hire more Black faculty. Since that time, the number of Black faculty at Harvard has barely increased. Her husband’s appointee to the Supreme Court, Elena Kagan, served as dean of the Harvard Law School for six years and did not hire one under-represented minority for a tenure track position.

8)  It is said that Michelle is an honorary member of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority but need more clarification.

9) Her first date with her husband, Barack Obama, was to see the movie “Do the Right Thing” by Spike Lee. They married in October, 1992.

10) According to her tax returns, Michelle earned far more money than her husband while working as the Vice President for Community and External Affairs at the University of Chicago Hospitals. She earned $273,000 per year, and her husband earned $157,000 as a United States Senator. Money does not make a marriage but team work does.

Mrs. Obama is a prime example on how a women of color should stick by her man (NO MATTTER WHAT). They say when there is a strong man, a strong woman is right beside him.

Word On The Street Is......

Word on the street is that Ms. Paula Deen called a someone a NIGGER and this is what said about the situation..........

On Wednesday, Paula Deen appeared on TODAY with Matt Lauer to address the scandal over revelations that she had used racial slurs in the past. Her apology and explanation for her behavior was lengthy, but opinions are split over how effective her 13-minute mea culpa really was.

"She appeared very genuine," said Lily Golightly, owner and publicist with New York-based Golightly Media. "Her YouTube videos were kind of strange, and this interview should have cleared things up."

Unfortunately for Deen, the interview may have had the opposite effect.

As black people, we use the N-word so freely one to another but when another race call us the N-word we get really offensive. I believe we should just do away with the word and let this be lesson learned.

Another HBCU In Danger.......

 

 Howard University may disappear if it doesn’t fix financial problems, says trustee

  
 Howard University is in financial trouble and may disappear if it doesn’t learn to be more efficient in the way that it’s being managed. All of this is part of the claim of a vice chairwoman of the school’s board of trustees, who feels that the school may be digging itself into a financial grave.

According to a report published this week as part of a letter in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Renee Higginbotham-Brooks said that “Howard will not be here in three years if we don’t make some crucial decisions now.”

The letter is dated April 24^th and lists quite a few reasons that the school is going to continue to have trouble due to some very bad financial habits and circumstances.

According to Higginbotham-Brooks, Howard is facing sever e competition from less-expensive state universities and a drop in federal support from the Obama Administration. She also claims that the university’s staff is entirely too large, and that the school has not invested in developing a strong fundraising system.

Rachel Mann, a spokeswoman for Howard, wasn’t saying much about the letter, and only deferred questions to the board chairman, Addison Barry Rand.

“Spirited debate and discourse are part of the culture of higher education,” said Rand. “The board and the university’s leadership team continue to work tirelessly to address many of the tough issues facing colleges and universities like Howard.”

Higginbotham-Brooks is a Howard University graduate and attorney in Fort Worth, Texas.   She has been on the board since 1997 and vice chairwoman since 2005.

Howard’s president, Sidney A. Ribeau, has been accused by Higginbotham-Brooks of being an ineffective leader. Also, in 2012, faculty senate leaders protested bonuses given to administrators in the middle of budget cuts.

Dr. Boyce Watkins recently supported another HBCU president, Dr. Walter Kimbrough, when he appealed to Dr. Dre, asking why he gave $35 million to USC instead of an HBCU.  Dr. Watkins says that everyone who cares about the African American community should support an HBCU, even if they didn’t attend one, since these schools are a critical part of educating Black students.

At the same time, Dr. Watkins says that the public should speak up honestly about areas in which HBCUs can and should do a better job.

“It’s a shame that so many Black colleges struggle while Black athletes earn billions for predominantly white universities,” said Dr. Watkins, who says he once applied for a position at Howard University.  “But we must also be honest when our schools are being run inefficiently.  I’ve heard quite a few complaints from both students and faculty about Howard’s stubbornness when it comes to making changes that are critical for its survival. Even when my friend and I both applied to Howard after getting our PhDs, we were stunned at how disorganized and unresponsive the administration was when reviewing our applications. It actually made me sad.”

We really need Howard University alums to please speak up about this matter at hand. There are to may of our HBCU's doing down hill and I am upset about the way HBCU's are heading.