World-renown author, poet and actress Dr. Maya Angelou will be awarded the Norman Mailer Center & Writers Colony’s lifetime achievement award. Angelou received the National Book Foundation’s 2013 Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literacy Community earlier this month.
Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Michael Vick was forced to cancel his book tour after “protests escalated into threats of violence.” Do you think Vick is deserving of the continued hostility towards him? Or is it time to let it go and move on?
“Who will cry for the little boy, the boy inside a man / Who will cry for the little boy, who knew well, hurt and pain / Who will cry for the little boy, who died and died again / Who will cry for the little boy, a good boy he tried to be / […]
I know the NBA playoffs are in full swing, and Derrick Rose and the Bulls are annihilating the competition, but I just wanted to take a brief moment to talk about baseball. Before you yawn and press the little “x” in the top right hand corner of your window allow me to explain the importance […]
“All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players”- William Shakespeare. Shakespeare couldn’t even begin to imagine all the actors, players, and player-haters that are all trying to upstage each other in the 2011 Chicago Mayoral Election. Unlike the show “The Game”, the script for this epic political race seems to […]
MSNBC.com | February 22, 2010 This week on the Today Show, former U.S. Army Spc. Shoshana Johnson spoke with Matt Lauer about her experience as a 19-year-old prisoner of war in Iraq in 2003. She recently wrote an autobiography about her experience called I’m Still Standing.
Those of us who lament the current incarnation of the NBA despite Lebron James’ and Chris Paul’s (he’s soooo cute — no hetero) greatness do so because we remember the golden age of the league. (Are you looking for Kobe love? You won’t get that here. Move along.) Those of us born in the 80s […]
