Author Archives: Cheryl_McCourtie

As the year comes to a close, I remember some of the people and things that have made it a cheery one for me.   I hope you enjoy!  Love, peace and joy, Affirming Community. Happy New Year! BE. SELF CARE Bedford-StuyvesantRead the Rest »

While some see the presidential election of 2012 as a moratorium on one  candidate or the other, for me it has been about the buying of an election. The notion that corporations could thwart the people’s will and simply purchase theRead the Rest »

Myriad reports from across the nation of new voter I.D. requirements aimed at disenfranchising mostly people of color and older people hearken to the day when targeted Americans, principally African Americans in the South, had to pass preposterous tests toRead the Rest »

  The recent events in the Middle East have left much of the public here in the United States stunned, confused, saddened, and even angry.  As the pundits wrestle with whether the attacks on the embassies were spontaneous or planned,Read the Rest »

Sex and the Single Girl:  Remembering Helen Gurley Brown Helen Gurley-Brown, the doyenne of the cleavage-bearing, sex-obsessed young woman, passed away last week at the age of 90.  Gurley Brown, who served as editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan magazine for more thanRead the Rest »

 “Big-Up” to the Jamaicans and the Jamaican-Diasporic People! Okay, Affirming Community, you’re on to me.  I’ll start my Olympics roundup with yet another love letter to the island of my parents’ birth Jamaica, and just get it out of theRead the Rest »

When I was a child growing up in Liberia, I would listen to a weekly radio show called the “Wilmot Stubblefield Experience.”  After spinning the latest R&B and disco records (yes, it was the 1970s), Wilmot would close the showRead the Rest »