About BlackMENBlog.com

Making it easy for Black Men to speak their mind, share their passions, and motivate a movement! BlackMENBlog.com is built on four powerful principles:

1.   It should be easy for Black Men to connect with each other and with the world.
2.   The combined voices of Black Men will create a positive, worldwide revolution.
3.   Unfiltered communication is best.
4.    The world’s Black men, Black women and Black children want the leadership provided by bloggers on BlackMENBlog.com.

BlackMENBlog.com is designed so that authors like yourself can publish articles and web pages in minutes.

We’ve provided all the tools you need – now it’s time for you to create your first Blog. Get started now. Publish your passion with BlackMENBlog.com!

We are located in Austin, Texas. We are affiliated with www.FamilyDigest.com, www.WeHaveSoul.com, www.FamilyDigestShow.com, www.BlackWOMENBlog.com, and www.StrongBlackFamily.com.

FAQ

Where do I get support?

You can send BlackMENBlog an email via the form at www.FamilyDigest.info if you're experiencing technical problems. We'll respond as quickly as possible.

What's a Blog?

A Blog is a rich web page that you write and design. Each time you want to write another article, you'll create another Blog. It's just like in a website, which has multiple web pages. You have the capability to add text, pictures, videos, and links in your Blog.

What's a BlackMENBlog.com Blogger?

A BlackMENBlog.com Blogger is anyone who creates a Blog.

How do I make a Blog?

There are four easy steps.

1. Create: You create an account (It only takes a minute or so.)
2. Name: Choose a title for your Blog, and add some tags (keywords) that describe it.
3. Add: Create the content elements of your choice (Text, photo, products, comments, etc.) and fill them with whatever you’d like.
4. Publish.

Do I own a topic?

BlackMENBlog.com does not assign ownership of a specific topic to a Blogger. Anyone is free to write on any topic they like. However, by creating a high number of Blogs filled with original, useful content, you will boost your BlackMENBlog.com status and become increasingly recognized in the Internet community as an expert.

What should I name a Blog?

Think of your Blog as an individual article. What you name it should be consistent with the content of the Blog. We recommend using the main phrase in the title for how a person would search for the information in the Blog. This link between a phrase that is likely to be used to search online for your type of information and the title of your Blog will increase the size of your audience.

What are tags?

Tags are keywords and phrases that describe your Blog. Tags are important for people using a search engine to find Internet material on your topic. They alert the search engines that you have relevant material on the topic described by the tag.

Let’s say you were creating a tag for a page about college basketball. Your tags might include words such as “basketball,” “college,” and  “NCAA.”  It’s better to combine words to make phrases such as “NCAA college basketball.”

BlackMENBlog Terms of Service

Welcome to BlackMENBlog! By using BlackMENBlog, you agree to these BlackMENBlog Terms of Service ("Terms of Service") and the following terms and conditions and policies, including any future amendments (collectively, the "Agreement"):

Although we may attempt to notify you when major changes are made to these BlackMENBlog Terms of Service, you should periodically review the most up-to-date version on this website. Our marketing partners and other affiliated websites may, in their sole discretion, modify or revise their Terms of Service and policies at any time, and you agree to be bound by such modifications or revisions. If you do not accept and abide by this Agreement, you may not use the BlackMENBlog service. In the event of an inconsistency between the BlackMENBlog Terms of Service and either one or more of our marketing partners or affiliated websites’ general Terms of Service or Privacy Policies, the BlackMENBlog Terms of Service shall control wherever allowed by law. Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to confer any third-party rights or benefits.

1. Description of Service. BlackMENBlog is a web publishing service and optional hosting service (the "Service"). You will be responsible for all activities occurring under your username and for keeping your password secure. You understand and agree that the Service is provided to you on an AS IS and AS AVAILABLE basis. BlackMENBlog disclaims all responsibility and liability for the availability, timeliness, security or reliability of the Service or any other client software. BlackMENBlog also reserves the right to modify, suspend or discontinue the Service with or without notice at any time and without any liability to you.

You must be at least thirteen (13) years of age to use the Service. BlackMENBlog reserves the right to refuse service to anyone at any time without notice for any reason.

2. Proper Use. You agree that you are responsible for your own use of the Service, for any posts you make, and for any consequences thereof. You agree that you will use the Service in compliance with all applicable local, state, national, and international laws, rules and regulations, including any laws regarding the transmission of technical data exported from your country of residence and all United States export control laws.

You agree to abide by the BlackMENBlog Content Policy and the rules and restrictions therein. Although we may attempt to notify you when major changes are made to the BlackMENBlog Content Policy, you should periodically review the most up-to-date version on this website. BlackMENBlog may, in its sole discretion, modify or revise the BlackMENBlog Content Policy at any time, and you agree to be bound by such modifications or revisions.

Violation of any of the foregoing, including the BlackMENBlog Content Policy, may result in immediate termination of this Agreement, and may subject you to state and federal penalties and other legal consequences. BlackMENBlog reserves the right, but shall have no obligation, to investigate your use of the Service in order to (a) determine whether a violation of the Agreement has occurred or (b) comply with any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request.

Much of the content of BlackMENBlog.com -- including the contents of specific postings -- is provided by and is the responsibility of the person or people who made such postings. BlackMENBlog does not monitor the content of BlackMENBlog.com, and takes no responsibility for such content. Instead, BlackMENBlog merely provides access to such content as a service to you.

By their very nature, BlackMENBlog.com may carry offensive, harmful, inaccurate or otherwise inappropriate material, or in some cases, postings that have been mislabeled or are otherwise deceptive. We expect that you will use caution and common sense and exercise proper judgment when using BlackMENBlog.com.

BlackMENBlog does not endorse, support, represent or guarantee the truthfulness, accuracy, or reliability of any communications posted via the Service or endorse any opinions expressed via the Service. You acknowledge that any reliance on material posted via the Service will be at your own risk.

3. Privacy. As a condition of using the Service, you agree to the terms of the BlackMENBlog Privacy Policy, which may be updated from time to time, as expressed in the most recent version that exists at the time of your use. You agree that BlackMENBlog may access or disclose your personal information, including the content of your communications, if BlackMENBlog is required to do so in order to comply with any valid legal process or governmental request (such as a search warrant, subpoena, statute, or court order), or as otherwise provided in these Terms of Service and the general BlackMENBlog Privacy Policy. Personal information collected by BlackMENBlog may be stored and processed in the United States or any other country in which BlackMENBlog Inc. or its agents maintain facilities. By using the Service, you consent to any such transfer of information outside of your country.

4. General Practices Regarding Use and Storage. You agree that BlackMENBlog has no responsibility or liability for the deletion of, or the failure to store or to transmit, any Content and other communications maintained by the Service. BlackMENBlog retains the right to create limits on use and storage at our sole discretion at any time with or without notice.

5. Content of the Service. BlackMENBlog takes no responsibility for third-party content (including, without limitation, any viruses or other disabling features), nor does BlackMENBlog have any obligation to monitor such third-party content. BlackMENBlog reserves the right at all times to remove or refuse to distribute any content on the Service, such as content which violates the terms of this Agreement. BlackMENBlog also reserves the right to access, read, preserve, and disclose any information as it reasonably believes is necessary to (a) satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request, (b) enforce this Agreement, including investigation of potential violations hereof, (c) detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues, (d) respond to user support requests, or (e) protect the rights, property or safety of BlackMENBlog, its users and the public. BlackMENBlog will not be responsible or liable for the exercise or non-exercise of its rights under this Agreement.

6. Intellectual Property Rights. BlackMENBlog's Intellectual Property Rights. You acknowledge that BlackMENBlog owns all right, title and interest in and to the Service, including all intellectual property rights (the "BlackMENBlog Rights"). BlackMENBlog Rights are protected by U.S. and international intellectual property laws. Accordingly, you agree that you will not copy, reproduce, alter, modify, or create derivative works from the Service. You also agree that you will not use any robot, spider, other automated device, or manual process to monitor or copy any content from the Service. As described below, BlackMENBlog Rights do not include third-party content used as part of the Service, including the content of communications appearing on the Service.

Your Intellectual Property Rights. BlackMENBlog may publish or republish Content you submit in any media in existence or to be invented. You agree that BlackMENBlog is not and shall not provide you a portion of revenue earned from the advertising placed on BlackMENBlog.com or any affiliated website. You or a third party licensor, as appropriate, retain all patent, trademark and copyright to any Content you submit, post or display on or through BlackMENBlog services and you are responsible for protecting those rights, as appropriate. By submitting, posting or displaying Content on or through BlackMENBlog services which are intended to be available to the members of the public, you grant BlackMENBlog a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to reproduce, publish, republish and distribute such Content and the online identity of the Content provider on BlackMENBlog services or other media as and when determined by BlackMENBlog in its sole discretion for the purpose of displaying and distributing BlackMENBlog services or for any other purposes. BlackMENBlog will not provide you, your assigns or heirs with revenue payments for the reproduction, publishing or distribution of Content in any media vehicle, publication or other outlets in existence or yet to be created. BlackMENBlog furthermore reserves the right to refuse to accept, post, display or transmit any Content in its sole discretion.

You represent and warrant that you have all the rights, power and authority necessary to grant the rights granted herein to any Content submitted.

You may choose to submit, post, and display any materials on or through the BlackMENBlog service under a public license by manually marking your materials as such. For avoidance of doubt, BlackMENBlog is not a party to any such public license between you and any third party. Also, for avoidance of doubt, BlackMENBlog may choose to exercise the rights granted under (a) the public license or licenses, if any, you apply to your materials or (b) this Agreement.

You acknowledge and agree that BlackMENBlog has the right to send you emails regarding the service or other matters that BlackMENBlog deems may be of interest to you, in the sole discretion of BlackMENBlog. In addition, you agree to receive via email free subscriptions to publications and other products affiliated with BlackMENBlog, to include Family Digest Magazine.

7. No Resale of the Service. Unless expressly authorized in writing by BlackMENBlog, you agree not to reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, trade, resell or exploit for any commercial purposes (a) any portion of the Service, (b) use of the Service, or (c) access to the Service.

8. Publicity. Any use of BlackMENBlog's trade names, trademarks, service marks, logos, domain names, and other distinctive brand features ("Brand Features"), including "BlackMENBlog," and "BlackMENBlog.com," must be in compliance with this Agreement and in compliance with BlackMENBlog's then current Brand Features use guidelines, and any content contained or referenced therein, which may be received by you by sending a request letter to us via the form at the following website: www.FamilyDigest.info. (or such other source BlackMENBlog may provide from time to time).

9. Representations and Warranties. You represent and warrant that (a) all of the information provided by you to BlackMENBlog to participate in the Service is correct and current; and (b) you have all necessary right, power and authority to enter into this Agreement and to perform the acts required of you hereunder.

10. Termination; Suspension. BlackMENBlog may, in its sole discretion, at any time and for any reason, terminate the Service, terminate this Agreement, or suspend or terminate your account. In the event of termination, your account will be disabled and you may not be granted access to your account or any files or other content contained in your account although residual copies of information may remain in our system for some time for back-up purposes. Sections 2, 3, 5 - 8, and 10 - 15 of the Agreement, along with applicable provisions of the general Terms of Service (including the section regarding limitation of liability), shall survive expiration or termination.

11. Indemnification. You agree to hold harmless and indemnify BlackMENBlog, and its subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, agents, and employees from and against any third-party claim arising from or in any way related to your use of the Service, including any liability or expense arising from all claims, losses, damages (actual and consequential), suits, judgments, litigation costs and attorneys' fees, of every kind and nature. In such a case, BlackMENBlog will provide you with written notice of such claim, suit or action.

12. Entire Agreement. This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between you and BlackMENBlog and governs your use of the Service, superseding any prior agreements between you and BlackMENBlog. You also may be subject to additional terms and conditions that may apply when you use or purchase certain other BlackMENBlog services, affiliate services, third-party content or third-party software.

13. Waiver and Severability of Terms. The failure of BlackMENBlog to exercise or enforce any right or provision of the Terms of Service shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. If any provision of the Terms of Service is found by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, the parties nevertheless agree that the court should endeavor to give effect to the parties' intentions as reflected in the provision, and the other provisions of the Terms of Service remain in full force and effect.

14. Statute of Limitations. You agree that regardless of any statute or law to the contrary, any claim or cause of action arising of or related to use of BlackMENBlog services or the Terms of Service must be filed within one (1) year after such claim or cause of action arose or be forever barred.

15. Choice of Law; Jurisdiction; Forum. These Terms of Service will be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Texas, without giving effect to its conflict of laws provisions or your actual state or country of residence. Any claims, legal proceeding or litigation arising in connection with the Service will be brought solely in Travis County, California, and you consent to the jurisdiction of such courts.

16. Copyright Information. It is our policy to respond to notices of alleged infringement that comply with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. If you believe that your copyright has been infringed on the Service, please send us a notice of infringement via the form at: www.FamilyDigest.info.

BlackMENBlog Privacy Notice

July 11, 2007

The BlackMENBlog.com Privacy Policy describes how we treat personal information when you use BlackMENBlog's products and services, including information provided when you use BlackMENBlog. In addition, the following describes our privacy practices that are specific to BlackMENBlog.

Personal information

• BlackMENBlog asks for some personal information when you sign up to use BlackMENBlog, including your email and mail address, name and a password, which is used to protect your account from unauthorized access.

• In addition to publishing your weblog posts, you may also provide additional profile information, such as a photo, birthday, location, etc. and can edit your profile at any time. 

• BlackMENBlog servers automatically record information about your use of the service, such as when you use BlackMENBlog and the frequency and size of data transfers. Information displayed or clicked in the BlackMENBlog interface (including UI elements, settings, and other information) is also recorded.

Uses

• BlackMENBlog stores and maintains your account information and copies of your weblog posts and comments, including drafts, in order to provide the service.

Your choices

• You can change your BlackMENBlog account settings, including your profile information, at any time in the Settings section of BlackMENBlog. You can edit, save drafts and remove your weblog posts at any time as described elsewhere on this website.

• If you delete your weblog, we will remove all posts from public view. Because of the way we maintain this service, residual copies of your profile information and other information associated with your account may remain on back-up media.

More information

Privacy Policy
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BlackMENBlog Content Policy

BlackMENBlog is a free service for communication, self-expression and freedom of speech. We believe BlackMENBlog increases the availability of information, encourages healthy debate, and makes possible new connections between people.

We respect our users' ownership of and responsibility for the content they choose to share. It is our belief that censoring this content is contrary to a service that bases itself on freedom of expression.

In order to uphold these values, we need to curb abuses that threaten our ability to provide this service and the freedom of expression it encourages. As a result, there are some boundaries on the type of content that can be hosted with BlackMENBlog. The boundaries we've defined are those that both comply with legal requirements and that serve to enhance the service as a whole.

Content Boundaries

Illegal Purposes. BlackMENBlog may not be used for illegal purposes. Examples of this include using BlackMENBlog for fraudulent purposes or operating a phishing site (used to obtain account and password information).

Spam. We will aggressively seek to remove spam from our site. There are a variety of different ways in which spam manifests itself in blogs. Generally, when we talk about spam we mean content that is created for the primary purpose of manipulating search engine results, or generating revenue or traffic through deceptive means. The following are examples of the types of spam that are forbidden by the BlackMENBlog Content Policy ("Content Policy"), but this is not an exhaustive list.

• comment spam: the manual or automated placement of comments on a post for the sole purpose of driving either traffic to another site.

• referrer spamming: send fake referrer traffic (links) to a site for the purpose of driving traffic to a blog

• cloaking: the programmatic hiding of content on a site for the purposes of having that content indexed by search engines without it being viewable

• automated content creation: the scripted creation of blog content for the purpose of generating revenue or manipulating search results

Identity Theft and Privacy. Blogs that misleadingly appropriate the identity of another person are not permitted.

Users may not post other people's personally identifying or confidential information, including but not limited to credit card numbers, Social Security Numbers, and driver's and other license numbers. You may not post information such as other people's passwords, usernames, phone numbers, addresses and e-mail addresses unless already publicly accessible on the Web.

Hate Content. Hate speech and other objectionable content may be flagged for review by our users. When this happens, BlackMENBlog reserves the right to warn others of the potentially offensive content through the use of a warning page. Other content, such as adult material, may be depublicized so that it does not appear in frequently-trafficked places such as the homepage of BlackMENBlog.com.

Just because a given blog has received votes through this mechanism does not mean that any particular action will be taken. For example, blogs that are flagged because readers disagree with the political opinions expressed in a blog will not be acted upon.

Defamation/Libel. Users should not publish any content that is unlawful, defamatory, and fraudulent. Note that an allegation of defamatory expression, in and of itself, does not establish defamation. The truth or falsehood of a bit of expression is a key element in establishing defamation, and we are not in a position to make that sort of fact-based judgment. That said, if we have reason to believe that a particular statement is defamatory (a court order, for example), we will remove that statement.

Disruptions and Exploits. We will terminate accounts and block addresses of those who attempt unauthorized use of both BlackMENBlog.com and blogspot.com.

Copyright. Using copyrighted material does not constitute infringement in all cases. In general, however, users should be careful when using copyrighted content without the permission of those who created it.

It is our policy to respond to notices of alleged infringement that comply with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA"). If we remove a blog/post or disable access to a blog to comply with the DMCA, we will make a good-faith attempt to contact the owner or administrator of each affected site so that they may make a counter notification pursuant to section 512(g)(2) and (3) of the DMCA. It is our policy to document all notices of alleged infringement on which we act.

Commercial Pornography. We do not permit the hosting of sites that exist for the primary purpose of garnering commercial traffic through pornography. Such sites tend to take up a disproportionate amount of resources. In order to maintain a free and open service for the majority of our users, we choose to forbid commercial pornography.