Photo: Karen Hunter Publishing Don’t Bring Home a White Boy and Other Notions that Keep Black Women from Dating Out by author Karyn Langh

Last week, Glen Bell Jr., the founder of Taco Bell, died at 86.

Bell launched his first restaurant, called Bell's Drive-In, in 1948 in San Bernardino after seeing the success of McDonald's Bar-B-Que, the predecessor of McDonald's, which was founded in the same city in 1940.

Without question, the election of the first African American man to be President was a watershed in American history, and of utmost significance to the Black community. But the election of Obama is, according to Black Agenda Radio commentator Glen Ford, causing blacks to be a little irrational.

This time the word Negro is in the 2010 U.S. Census, question number 9. The question, which asks about race, provides the following answer choice: "Black, African Am., or Negro." The text of the Census was approved by the U.S.