"we got to do better."

Jam Donaldson has shown she's a force to be reckoned with on the internet. Her website www.hotghettomess.com is one of the most highly trafficked African-American owned websites in the world. The site has been stirring up controversy, praise, ire and powerful discourse since its inception in 2004. The site continues to grow and evolve and hopes to be a facilitator of edgy, racial dialogue for years to come. She hopes to partner with organizations that are working to help the community do better. A portion of proceeds from merchandise is donated to grass roots organizations that are helping us do better, one person at a time.


Donaldson launched a new blog based on the We Got To do Better Message of hotghettomess.com entitled "Conversate is Not a Word" ( conversate-is-not-a-word.blogspot.com) A lightning rod for controversy, the blog is an uncensored look at the hottest topics in black and popular culture delivered with passion, humor and edge.

Radar Magazine's New Radicals

Donaldson's contributions to the on-line world were recognized in 2007 when she was named one of Radar Magazine's New Radicals.

Radar Magazine's "New Radicals" were deemed "a group of entertainers and writers who are shaping up culture in the right way." Radar recognized Jam Donaldson and three other members of what they term "The Bloggeratti."

"The Bloggeratti" are recognized as "the bomb-lobbing vanguard of the new black blogosphere." Left to right, Jam Donaldson, (hotghettomess.com), Rod McCullom (rod20.com), Eskay (nahright.com), and Angel Laws (concreteloop.com).

Future on-line projects

ON Line TV Network featuring programming that showcase the "we got to do better" philosophy in all its marvelous forms.

Press Quotes

"As I click through the laugh-to-keep-from-crying images found on hotghettomess.com, it occurs to me that Donaldson is taking the increasingly omnipotent media machine and girling it up in an effort to get at a damnably tough problem..."
      -- The Nation

"Preachers and teachers and prominent African Americans such as Bill Cosby and Barack Obama have delivered that message before. But Donaldson, might be a different kind of messenger: a Gen-X'er, a child of the Hip-Hop Age."
      -- The Washington Post

"The site wags a shameful finger to those who bring us all down with their foolishness..."
      -- L.A. Sentinel

"Although the site and show feature images of the African-American community at its worst, Donaldson says she considers her work constructive criticism. "I was tired of getting all of these pictures of people at the prom, street fights, people with grills, all of this ridiculous stuff,' she says. 'So I was like, How can I use these pictures in a Web site to make some sort of social statement? ...It started out as a sort of shame-on-you kind of thing."
      -- Washington City Paper