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This past weekend I took a break from the monotony of the “ivory tower”. I threw down my books and pushed aside my assignments so I could be entertained. My friends and I decided that with midterms rapidly approaching we needed a few good laughs to maintain our sanity, so we decided to go see […]

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bg-zTiHSYMM Over the past month I have been writing on the good and bad of “The Ballroom Scene.” Now I want to take a moment to explain more about the rising underground dance, that is becoming one of the new “black arts.”  If homophobic, masculine idolizing, intolerant schools like Morehouse would be a little more […]

Am I really that scary? I’m  only 5’9’’ 180 pounds.  This is what I asked myself when a girl ran away from me as I walked down Ellis Avenue two weeks ago. Initially I was flabbergasted by her reaction. Did I look like a criminal? I had on an under armour shirt and some old […]

I’m having trouble embedding the video in question.  Please view it here. Remember last year when all the white gay people were mad at black people because Prop 8 passed in California?  Well, it wasn’t a fluke.  We’re still their whipping boys (er, bois?).  Last week, my internet boyfriend AC (again, the only man I’d […]

Inner-city L.A. hungers for good grocery stores Daniel B. Wood, The Christian Science Monitor, October 10, 2009 Merit of Stop-Frisk Law at Issue Colleen Long, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, October 9, 2009 Schools Cited on Discipline of Minority Special-Ed Students Holly Prestidge, Richmond Times-Dispatch, October 9, 2009 Two ways Chicago can curb its youth violence epidemic Amanda […]

I’m still on IR trying to get this chapter draft to semi-embarrassing level.  (Which, frankly, would be a pleasant surprise to my committee since, you know, I rarely have anything to show them–and when I do it’s some incoherent mess about black people and geography. Yes, I mortify the race with every word I type.) […]

A couple weeks ago, i had a friend visit and on the way home from a club, the song “Five Star Chic” came on the radio. As soon as we heard the first verse, we looked at one another, simultaneously amused and disgusted. She commented that a woman like the type described in the song […]

Over the next several weeks I will be writing a series on  The Ballroom Scene. Wikipedia cheapens the culture by diluting the definition, calling it a “subculture of the LGBT community involving staged competitive, drag fashion performances.” The ballroom scene is not only a new black art, but it comes with a lot more baggage […]

Democracy Behind Bars Anthony Thompson, The New York Times, August 6, 2009 Gains on Tests Don’t Silence School Critics Elissa Gootman and Robert Gebeloff, The New York Times, August 4, 2009 Most Black Youths are Sitting out Baseball Gregory Lewis, South Florida Sun-Sentinel, August 4, 2009

A Life of Purpose Childs Walker, The Baltimore Sun, June 28, 2009 Artist is Creative in Helping Youth Sonya Bernard-Hollins, Kalamazoo Gazette, June 28, 2009 Need Scouting in Urban Communities Robert H. Young Jr., Birmingham News, June 28, 2009 My Word: When is Enough, Enough in the East Bay?  Time to Get Involved and Stop […]

We Need Adults Who are Builders of Men Fabu, The Capital Times, June 20, 2009 CALIFORNIA: Grants Aim to Help Immigrants Fit in to U.S. Society; Nearly $1 Million Will Aid Such Efforts as Easing Black-Latino Conflicts and Pushing Worker Rights Teresa Watanabe, Los Angeles Times, June 19, 2009 Star-Filled Lineup Set for Civil Rights […]

Note: I know this post is mad long.  I’ll be more succinct in the future.  I know you have better things to do. Last week, I didn’t take the opportunity to blog about Maia Campbell, something that I had fully intended to do.  Instead, my only significant output was a blog about Tyler Perry taking […]