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Jonylah’s Funeral is Now

• March 19, 2013 • Comments Off

Posted in African American History, Black People, Crime, Cultural History, Drug Culture/Industry, Gang Violence, Health, Journalism and Ethics, Love, Mental Health/Psychology, Murder/Manslaughter, Protestant Denominations, Race, Religion, The Mainstream Media (MSM)
Tags: African Americans, Black Women, Blacks, Buddhism, Charles Knight, Chicago, Children, Death, Death Care, Drama, Drugs, Funeral Services, I Will Always Love You, Jonathan, Jonathan Watkins, Jonylah, Jonylah Emani Watkins, Jonylah Watkins, Judy Watkins, Love, Marriage, Motherhood, Murder, Tamela Mann, Whitney Houston

That Photo from Facebook: A Child Grasps the Full Meaning of Xmas

• December 25, 2012 • Comments Off

Posted in Celebrities/Royals, Class, Holidays, Love, Spirituality
Tags: "Oh my!", Buddhism, Child, Children, Christmas, Christmas Eve, Christmas Presents, Christmas Tree, George, George Takei, Gifts, Growing Up, Killings, Letters to Santa, Love, Missing Xmas, Murder, Newtown Connecticut, Religion and Spirituality, Santa, School Shootings, United States, Xmas

Herbie Hancock Talks About How One Could Make Peace Happen

• March 16, 2012 • Comments Off

Posted in Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Civil Rights/Human Rights, Cultural History, Education, Herbie Hancock, Love, Music, Religion, SGI Nichiren Buddhism
Tags: African Americans, Blacks, Buddhism, Cosby Show, Herbie, Herbie Hancock, Love, Madison WI, New York, New York City, Nichiren Buddhism, Peace, Religion and Spirituality, SGI-USA, Tico Wells, UNESCO, United States, Wisconsin, World Peace, YouTube

That Cartoon from Facebook: “Mammaries v. Man Boobs”

• February 10, 2012 • Comments Off

Posted in Class, Cultural History, Sexuality, Women
Tags: Awareness, Bosoms, Breast, Breast Cancer, Breastesses, Brooklyn, Buddhism, Cartoon, Elderly, Exposure, Going Nude, Health, Humor, Jealousy, Middle Age, Nude Beaches, Scott Metzger, Sexuality, Surgery, The Body, United States, Women

How Buddhism Changed This Young Black Brother’s Life

• November 21, 2011 • Comments Off

Posted in Arts, Black People, Books, Class, Comedy, Consumerism, Crime, Crime-Cops-Injustice, Cultural History, Gang Violence, Joblessness, Mental Health/Psychology, Music, Race, Religion, SGI Nichiren Buddhism, The Economy, Women
Tags: African Americans, AR, Blacks, Buddhism, California, Chino XL, Common Sense, Daimoku, Donnie Darko, Gohonzon, Immortal Technique, Inner Development, iTunes, Killah Priest, Lord Brilliant, Peace, Self-Respect, Self-Worth, SGI Buddhism, SGI-USA, The Lower Four Worlds, United States, Young Men's Division, Youth Division

Cut Steeler Rashard Mendenhall, An Athlete Thinking Aloud, Some Slack

• May 11, 2011 • Comments Off

Posted in American Foreign Policy, American History, American Politics, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Civil Rights/Human Rights, Class, Cultural History, Education, International Terrorism, Journalism and Ethics, People of Color, Protestant Denominations, Public Intellectualism, Race, Rashard Mendenhall, Religion, SGI Nichiren Buddhism, Sports, The Mainstream Media (MSM), The Rest of the World, War Crimes
Tags: 9-11, Anger, Animality, Buddhism, Celebrity, Charlie Sheen, Communication, Curt Flood, Football, Football Player, Hell, Hunger, Jack and Jill Politics, Jingoism, Nationalism, Osama bin Laden, Patriotism, Pittsburgh Steelers, Players' Strike, Rashard Mendenhall, Slavery, Social Justice, Social Networking, Sports, The Four Evil Paths, The World Trade Center, Tweets, Twitter, United States, War on Terror, White House, World Trade Center

New Page for SGI Buddhist Members and Friends Regarding The Japan Crisis

• March 17, 2011 • Comments Off

Posted in Asians/Asian Pacific/Asian Americans, Japan, Natural Disasters, SGI Nichiren Buddhism, Who I Am
Tags: Asia, Buddhism, Daisaku Ikeda, Earthquake, Japan, Nuclear Power Plants, Radiation, SGI, Soka Gakkai, Tsunami

The Power of Nam Myoho Renge Kyo

• January 2, 2011 • Comments Off

Posted in Class, Health, Music, Religion, SGI Nichiren Buddhism, The Rest of the World
Tags: Buddhism, Buddhist Practice, Chanting, Daimoku, Daisaku Ikeda, Devotion to the Mystic Law of Cause and Effect, Gautama Buddha, Josei Toda, Lineages, Lotus, Mahayana Buddhism, Nam-myoho-renge-kyo, Nichiren, Religion and Spirituality, SGI Buddhism, SGI Buddhists, SGI-USA, Soka Gakkai, Soka Gakkai International, The Mystic Law, The Three Founding Presidents, Tsunesaburo Makiguchi, World War II

Is James Jones a Hero? Outraged Father of Daughter With Cerebral Palsy Confronts the Bullies on the School Bus

• September 20, 2010 • 7 Comments

Posted in Black People, Bullying/Juvenile Crimes, Class, Cultural History, Differently-Abled, Education, Health, Love, Mental Health/Psychology, The Mainstream Media (MSM)
Tags: "Discipline", African Americans, Anti-Bullying Policy, Anti-Social Behavior, Black Families, Black Parents, Blacks, Buddhism, Buddhists, Bullying, Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover, Catholic Church, Catholic School, Conception, Condoms, Daughter, Gay Bait, Generations, Greenwood Lakes Middle School, Growing Up, Hero, Insensitivity, James Jones, Juvenile Court, Juvie, Lake Mary FL, Lake Mary Florida, Love, New Orleans, Nuns, OHellNawl, Prison, Prison Industry, Private School, Punching, Resources, School Administrators, School Bus, Schools, Seminole County, Seminole County Jail, Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament, Slaus, Special Needs Child, Suicide, Suicide Watch, Teachers, The Sixties, Thuggish, Thugs, Thugs-in-Training, Triflin', Uncouth, Verbal Abuse, Violence and Abuse, Waste

Novelist and Playwright Chris Abani Tells Stories About Our Shared Humanity

• January 31, 2010 • Comments Off

Posted in Africans, Arts, Black People, Comedy, Drama, Film, History, Love, Memoir, Nigeria, People of Color, Race, Religion, South Africa, Spirituality, The Rest of the World, Women
Tags: "Masters of the Board", Buddhism, Chris Abani, Comedy, Drama, English, Igbo, Imprisonment, London UK, Memoirs, Monologist, Monologue, Political Prisoner, Solitary Confinement, Ubuntu, UC Riverside, University of California, Video

Obama’s Nobel Speech and the Price of War

• December 11, 2009 • Comments Off

Posted in Afghanistan, American Foreign Policy, American Politics, Black People, Democrats, Democrats in Name Only, Education, History, Obama Administration, The Economy, The Iraq War II, The Mainstream Media (MSM), The Rest of the World, Torture, War Crimes
Tags: "Rolling Stone", Afghanistan, al Qaeda, American Apartheid, Buddhism, Buddhist, Civil Disobedience, Civilians, Coretta Scott King, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Iraq, Lebanon, Mass Shooter, Matt Taibbi, MSM, Nonviolence, Norway, Osama bin Laden, Peace, President Barack Obama, President Obama, President Theodore Roosevelt, Teddy Roosevelt, The Media, The Nobel Peace Prize, The Obama Doctrine, The Wailing Wall, Theodore Roosevelt, Unarmed, Vice President Joe Biden, Vietnam, War

About Tiger…The Latest Reductionist Twaddle

• December 6, 2009 • Comments Off

Posted in Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Domestic Violence, Gossip, Health, Journalism and Ethics, Love, Mental Health/Psychology, People of Color, Race, Sexuality, Sports, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Women
Tags: "News of the World", Adultery, African Americans, Blacks, Body, Buddhism, Buddhist, Cerebral, Common Sense, Cricket Broadband, Domestic Violence, Drama, Eldrick Tont Woods, Eldrick Woods, Golf, Golfer, Growing Up, Hinayana Buddhism, Hostesses, Infidelity, Jumpoffs, Marriage, Mindy Lawton, New Orleans, Nordic, Orlando FL, Other Women, Party Girls, Racism, Racist, Rape, Rupert Murdoch, Sex, Sex Machines, Society Women, Sports, Stars, Theravada, Tiger, Tiger Woods, Trophy Marriage, Whiteness, Windermere

Tina Turner: What Chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo Feels Like for Me

• November 23, 2009 • 6 Comments

Posted in Love, Religion, Who I Am
Tags: "Beyond: Buddhist and Christian Prayers", African Americans, Bad News, Blacks, Buddhism, Chanting, Common Sense, Daily Life, Daimoku, Gongyo, Human Life, Human Revolution, Inner Peace, Life, Life Affirming, Lotus Sutra, Nam-myoho-renge-kyo, Nichiren, Nichiren Buddhism, Prayer, Religion and Spirituality, Self-Affirmation, Self-Respect, Self-Worth, Soka Gakkai International, Tina, Tina Turner

Welcome to This Black Sista’s Memorial Blog

• June 6, 2009 • Comments Off

Posted in Who I Am
Tags: African Americans, Black Women, Blacks, Buddhism, DailyKos, MasterCard, New Orleans, New York, PayPal, Racism, Sex, Steve Gilliard, White House

This Black Sista's Memorial Page

Jonylah’s Funeral is Now

That Photo from Facebook: A Child Grasps the Full Meaning of Xmas

Herbie Hancock Talks About How One Could Make Peace Happen

That Cartoon from Facebook: “Mammaries v. Man Boobs”

How Buddhism Changed This Young Black Brother’s Life

New Page for SGI Buddhist Members and Friends Regarding The Japan Crisis

The Power of Nam Myoho Renge Kyo

Novelist and Playwright Chris Abani Tells Stories About Our Shared Humanity

Obama’s Nobel Speech and the Price of War

About Tiger…The Latest Reductionist Twaddle

Tina Turner: What Chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo Feels Like for Me

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