Tag: Cynthia Shaffer
We Remember Charles Krauthammer
By: Cynthia Shaffer
Charles Krauthammer. He’s one of those people about whom you learn more in death than in life; as evidenced by one of my...
Elevating the Observance of Asian Pacific Islander Heritage Month
By: Cynthia Shaffer, Reel Urban News
In school, my children (elementary age) are taught Black History month (February), but they are not taught Asian Pacific...
Alicia Hayes West And Her Phenomenal 30 Year Rust College Graduation...
Reel Urban News Exclusive
By: Cynthia Shaffer, National Editor, Reel Urban News
CS: Why go back to Rust College?
AHW: I suppose my main reason for...
Speaker Paul Ryan And The Politics of Family
“This morning Speaker Ryan shared with his colleagues that this will be his last year as a member of the House. He will serve...
“Another School Shooting. I’ve Lost Count.”
Another school shooting. I’ve lost count. I desperately want to express “the correct” reaction because now-a-days there are a bevy of experts at the ready...
Cynthia Shaffer confronts Dodge Ram and the Controversial Television Commercial (Watch)
I like the Dodge Ram 2018 Super Bowl commercial.
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlbY1tGARUA]
My mind instantly went back to their 2013 Super Bowl commercial.
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMpZ0TGjbWE]
I like that one,...
2017 The Year of the White Woman
“I am here to give you permission to be angry.” —Rose McGowan, Time magazine, 2017 Person of the Year
I’m not known to shy away...
50 Years Later We’re Still Killing our Babies now in Sutherland...
Fifty-one years ago, Claire Wilson was eight-months pregnant when she was shot by Charles Joseph Whitman, the Texas Tower Sniper. The Texas Tower shooting...
A Letter of Thanks to my Loving Mother, Chong Ae Sims
#WhyImThankful
There is a Korean saying that was instilled in me without my mother uttering a Korean word (loosely translated): "If you don't like how...
President Donald J. Trump: What To Say To Our Children
"...incompetent pig...a serious psychiatric disorder...no knowledge of the world and no curiosity to learn. shitheads... (Roxy, there's a time for this kind of language...