With some 900+ blogs by Black folks available in the site aggregator, I have a good starting point for those rare folks looking for Black people's opinions. Next I want to identify the serious (and a couple of non-serious) discussion forums.
Shawna already brought Cocoa Lounge to my attention, and Blaqtalk gets listed because I like them. Faheem at Black Perspective and Introspection (which has produced an Atom feed we are happlily consuming now) said he debates regularly at AfricanAmerica.org. Joint looks interesting.
Thing is, those forum need to be tracked differently than blogs because they don't have RSS feeds. I may set up a weblink directory for it...I'd have to modify the Drupal weblinks module but I'm used to that.