I see u baby..

congo square, new orleans --photo taken by Lil Bit of www.oddbutcomplete.com

The family has decided not to cook for 2 weeks! We are going raw and live, meaning blending, juicing, soaking, and fresh! It has been quite an experience. First, we felt energized, and on Day 3 not so much folks- can you say drained and sleepy. But, we found out from our homegirl Sala that things only go up after that. As Furqan says, "We are at the beach!"- mostly because we have been sipping on the most delicious coconut water straight outta the young coconuts, and using the coconut meat for fruit smoothies. Our friends recently set up an online network for Black folks who are vegans, vegetarians, fruitarians, and raw foodists- check it out.

We have great news! We just booked our tickets to touch back home in the NYC. That means we can go to Dance Africa, hit up SoHo, get some "cooked" rice and peas at Grandma's house, and see the broadway smash "Passing Strange." We also would love to see you if you're around!

We are excited about creating our master plan to go back home for real for real. The people have spoken, and Insha'allah we will be planning our trip to Ghana for 2009! We definitely need to set up the separate travel savings account. By the way do you know anything about conscious banking?


Everyone in New Orleans has been talking about Jazz Fest. We have been talking about music too- but mostly about Santogold, whose album dropped on Tuesday. Thanks to our friends at NME we can learn more about the "happy" place Santi's music comes from. WATCH.

For Sean.. For Jada.. For Justice!!!

Sean and his beautiful daughter Jada


I thought I had something to say, something to write that was going to be beautiful- like this very day marks the 5th year in our marriage (which it does). But that seems small in the big scheme of things. The major headline, the major call from the mountaintop is that we want justice, we want reparations, we want a change. Today, Sean Bell's killers got off. What do we tell our young people? Do we tell them to go out and vote? Go to college and change this madness? What do we tell them? You can be Malcolm and Martin too. The Honorable Marcus Garvey was treated like he was nothing when he was deported back to his home country of Jamaica. Do we move like we were told to? ...forever?

What I do know is that we have to invest in our young people, and make them fearless for a cause. It's going down right now! It's nation building time- you ain't know?

Go to this site for more information and updates on actions that are happening in support of Sean Bell.

Jada and Black children all over the world are watching us closely.

Hello Brooklyn!

So it's been a minute, but we've resurfaced. This is an offering, a look into what goes on in our minds. It's five of us. That's 25 different relationships we got going on under one roof. We make due.

Since we left, we have been productive. Today, we were featured speakers at a neighborhood potluck to assist in starting New Orleans 1st Food Coop. Exciting stuff right! After that we rolled over to this loft space, to run the ticket table for the New Orleans Human Rights Film Festival. We saw some good flicks. One called "In Solidarity" beautiful flick. Inspired us to get passports, yes I am sad to say we don't have passports. If we did we would probably be living overseas right now.

Just got word that the Central Park Summerstage Lineup just came out. We're trying to do a weekend trip to see Santogold on July 20th. We will be in your neck of the woods sooner then that though-so stay tuned in.

This post would seem not to have anything to do with Brooklyn, except for the exceptionally fly mural we got behind us from our going away party at Harriet's Alter Ego. They got exclusives (DJ Clue voice) over there. Check them out. And also check out some more pictures from DeJeanne, the amazing photographer and fellow Hamptonian of No Posing 4 Photography. Clearly, Furqan memorized that name in this joint she took of us! Until next time.