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5 Questions: Sinnamon Love

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Wassup folks, we’ve been on hiatus this past week, I wish this was my real job, working on the website daily, but unfortunately, this doesn’t pay the bills, so it’s been kinda spotty lately. We do appreciate all the support and promise to remain as consistent as possible.

So, what’s happened since the last site update…the unfortunate Virginia Tech incident, prayers go out to all families affected, I urge everyone to donate to the Virgina Tech memorial fund, http://www.vt.edu/tragedy/memorial_fund.php

Moving on, we have a new guest to add the growing list of BrilliantBrown interviewees, Ms. Sinnamon Love! For those of you not familiar with Sinnamon, she is the leading anthropolgist at the University of….naw, just kidding, she’s a pornstar of course.

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5 Questions with Jason Whitlock

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Due to the popularity of the last post, “Q & A with Tariq Nasheed”, and the rising popularity of the site, brilliantbrown’s 5 Questions series will continue on. This week, we have a treat for you sports fans out there, acclaimed sports columnists and TV personality, Jason Whitlock!

For those unfamiliar with Jason Whitlock, he is a mainstay columnist for the Kansas City Star and also writes weekly columns for AOL sports online. Whitlock was formerly employed by ESPN as a columnist on ESPN Page 2 and had appeared on many ESPN shows such as Pardon The Interruption, Rome Is Burning, and The Sports Reporters.

Whitlock is both well respected and well known in the sports community and is a voice of reason in the educated black community. Not only does he write about sports, he also covers topics that include “the Black KKK”, blacks accepting lowered expectations, and many other topics relevant to the black community as a whole.

You can find all of Jason’s REALTALK columns here. Listed below are the links to his more interesting columns:

On to the questions!

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5 Questions With Tariq Nasheed

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Hello all. Today, we have a brilliantbrown exclusive… an interview with acclaimed author Tariq Nasheed! Many of our loyal readers may have seen his name mentioned sporadically throughout a number of posts on this site, but may not be familiar with his work. As the author of 3 best-selling relationship books; The Art of Mackin, Play or Be Played, and The Mack Within, Nasheed has made a name for himself with witty, funny, and insightful commentary on dating and relationships.

Not only does Nasheed have a 4th book on the way, The Art of Goldigging, but you can also hear him on his Mack Lessons Radio Show, which can be found at www.macklessonsradio.com or by browsing your iTunes podcast directory for “mack lessons“. Tariq Nasheed currently resides in Los Angeles, CA and has appeared on a number of television shows such as MTV’s “Made” and The Conan O’Brien Show.

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