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The Columbia professor spent 20 years working on a bombshell biography of Malcolm X but died Friday, just three days before its release. Scholars and those who have read his new book Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention say it presents the most definitive look yet at the leader’s legacy. One of the most controversial parts is how top law-enforcement authorities “stood back” rather than investigate death threats against the leader because they viewed Malcolm X as a dangerous extremist (they’d call him a terrorist nowadays in the U-S). The 594 page book also talks about how 2 men were wrongly convicted of his killing, while 4 others involved went free.
Marable obtained thousands of pages of FBI and CIA files while researching his magnum opus. Among other things, he argues that Malcolm X exaggerated or lied about his criminal career in an attempt to show that the Nation of Islam could redeem even the worst criminals. He also says Malcolm X had far more doubts about religion and politics than was portrayed in the popular autobiography written with Alex Haley.
It also includes details about his life including an early homosexual relationship.
The 60-year-old died of long-standing medical problems. Marable’s wife, Leith Mullings, says the cause of death is not known at this time but Mr. Marable, who lived in Manhattan, had entered the hospital with pneumonia in early March. In the acknowledgments of his last book Marable wrote:
“For a quarter-century I have had sarcoidosis, an illness that gradually destroyed my pulmonary functions,” he wrote in the volume’s acknowledgments. “In the last year in researching this book, I could not travel and I carried oxygen tanks in order to breathe. In July 2010, I received a double lung transplant, and following two months’ hospitalization, managed a full recovery.”

Mayor Kasim Reed’s office said the city is reviewing a Freaknik-related permit application. Two separate events, Freaknik Nation and iFreaknik2011, are being promoted for April 15-17.
Some doubt this years Freaknik festival will live up to its heyday in the 90′s, and feel it should be left in the past.
“Freaknik is dead and they should stop trying to revive it,” said Travis Hudgons, a 34-year-old photographer and veteran of Freaknik in its prime. “It was a different vibe back then. It wasn’t forced. That’s just how we rolled. They need to do their own thing and stop trying to relive a past that they were never part of.”

Although there have been a number of studies that demonstrate profitable value in how women behave in business, some of those same characteristics that are innately female such as intuitiveness and flexibility are often still seen as weaknesses by managers who hold stereotypical views of how these behaviors play out in the workplace. A Catalyst study called "Women Take Care, Men Take Charge: Stereotyping of U.S. Business" clearly outlined this attitude in it’s reporting that women in corporate positions are often seen more as nurturers than they are as problem-solvers.
As a woman in business, you can do little to change attitudes and the stereotypical mindset of the people you work for; but you can work smarter in how you develop your professional profile in the office.
As part of our continuing coverage of Women at Work for Women's History month, here are some suggestions of how to reposition your standing on the job.
Attitude: There’s a huge difference between expectation and hope, and depending on which attitude you bring to business projects affects how colleagues and managers respond. Expectation is intrinsically speaks to confidence about your abilities and the anticipated outcomes. It also creates confidence in knowing how you should be treated in the workplace and the compensation you should receive. If you are a woman who constantly hopes for a good outcome, you are probably waiting to see how events play out based on your efforts. For example, you’ve worked really hard, so you hope your manager will recognize your contributions and give you the raise or promotion. There’s little ambivalence about who you are and what you’re worth when you operate from a place of expectation.
Act Now: Moving into action requires some level of risk – even when you don’t have all the information or when all the pieces aren’t properly aligned. Women tend to want to have all t’s crossed and all i’s dotted before they act. Planning is important, but execution is what gets the credit – and the respect. In the book Women Don’t Ask by Linda Babcock and Sara Laschever, “If optimism is about how we believe is available, risk taking is about going for it – taking a chance to get as much as we can – and men seem to be more comfortable than women taking risks….Men’s greater propensity to take risks may teach them, in contrast that challenging the status quo and pushing their own agendas can work to their advantage. Many women learn this lesson much more slowly, if at all.” Because risk aversion is a result of fear, it’s difficult for the cautious worker to stand out as a leader in any organization. “Ask for forgiveness, not permission,” is a phrase I’ve often heard from male bosses.
Take Credit: Most studies show that women get hire points for rallying, supporting and nurturing their team to do great work, but men know how to take full credit for what they create. Women tend to use the “we” pronoun more often than they say “I”. Don’t be timid about taking ownership. It obviously takes a team to see a project to fruition, and the group should always be recognized for their efforts, but it’s important for women to demonstrate how they led and directed the process of implementation to success in formal presentations, professional networking sessions and in performance reviews.
Feedback: There’s a difference between job description, which is the basic outline of what’s required for a position and job performance and expectation, which is the level at which you deliver these tasks. Getting regular feedback is the only way you will be able to discern your standing in a company, which will in turn inform the decisions you need to make. Feedback helps you make strategic decisions. That’s why it should be viewed as two-way communication and should happen regularly. If you are only meeting with your manager for performance reviews, it will be impossible for you to execute at the level of your boss’s expectation. If your manger tends to offer general responses, be specific with your questions and comments to elicit detailed accounts of your work and progress.
Enlist Support To become a powerbroker in your company, you need a support base. Colleagues, mentors, and sponsors – a network of professionals that can aid, testify and even brag about your successes for you. Working alone, in isolation or wanting to shoulder the burden keeps you narrowly focused on doing the tasks, which will only define you as workhorse. Men know how to be show horses. Make time to develop the necessary relationships in and outside of your organization that will not only provide you with proper guidelines and opportunities on how to impress your bosses, these relationships can be far more influential in presenting your case.

Meagan Good isn’t ashamed of her body, as if she would have a reason to be. To prove it, she showed off her envious curves in Men’s Health magazine’s April 2011 Issue. Her feature complimented the magazine’s poll results of what women want.
Of course, Meagan Gave gave her two cents, stating that the key to a good relationship is “bliss” and the main quality she is looking for in a man is “loyalty”.




"Although you can't fake a connection with someone, you can definitely enhance it by trying to get on their wavelength. "
She might even think that you're just bored of her company and it's causing you to shred those napkins. "
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Buck has plead not guilty to the gun possession, but he probably wouldn’t even be in such hot water if he hadn’t stabbed that guy at The VIBE Awards in 2004. Sad story…dah well!

“The plots are very different. I mean, Sparkle’s much darker,” she says. “It has some real things about ‘what price are you willing to pay for success.” One of the orginal film’s stars, Lonette McKee, made an appearance on The Game as Jason’s mother, so she will probably be seen in the remake.
You down to cop a ticket?