“…This innocent country set you down in a ghetto in which, in fact, it intended that you should perish. Let me spell out precisely what I mean by that for the heart of the matter is here and the crux of my dispute with my country. You were born where you were born and […]
As a Black male that grew up in the inner city of Cleveland Ohio, I understand what it means academically and personally, to be in a failing school system. My high school was a place where I found myself wrenched inside an atmosphere where I only had a 40 percent chance of graduating and an […]
Lately the news has been consumed with a lot of articles concerning the importance of marriage and how blacks in particular don`t seem suited for marriage given the horrible statistics that as many as 7 out of 10 black women are not married. While I agree that for some, marriage is important, what type of […]
Right hands on holsters at thickish cop hips. Left ones raising splinters with palm sweat on their wooden beating poles. Shaking in their bullet proof spacesuits, bitter and shaking in their “I-think-they’ll-b-safe” suits, they are over armed, ready for attack against the mob equipped with a radical thirst.
David Clowney shared his HIV status on Twitter; he tweeted the test results, and even supplied a picture, too. Is knowing Clowney’s status beautiful and/or inspiring? Or is he just the latest to prove, via Twitter, why athletes need publicists?
Reality TV show drama has been in the news a lot lately. Petitions urging the networks that produce these shows to reconsider have gained a lot of traction. The masses are finally growing disgusted with the petty, sometimes violent behavior of reality TV stars. While it seems many are finally ready to dismiss the violent […]
15 year-old honor student Brittany Rowley has put the NYPD back in the headlines after being “roughed up” by two of its officers in a case of mistaken identity. Her harrowing experience is just another example of the NYPD’s outrageous, overly-aggressive tactics in our communities.
Maryland politician Pat McDonough has called on state troopers to patrol Baltimore’s upscale Inner Harbor in order to protect it from dangerous, roving mobs of violent black youth. This kind of outrageous, over-the-top vilification of our youth has to stop!
Last night Monday I stumbled across an article with the headline, “Man who had 30 kids with 11 women wants child-support break.” Of course the ethnicity of this father turned out to be Black. My first reaction to this story was a shaken head, because Black male bodies seem incapable of accountability. Missing fathers, no […]
Issa Rae’s popular webseries, The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl is now part of hip hop producer/entrepreneur Pharrell Williams’ new YouTube channel, ‘i am Other.’ Will this bring greater success for Issa Rae?
Lupe Fiasco’s new single, “Around My Way (Freedom Ain’t Free)” samples Pete Rock and C.L. Smooth’s classic “They Reminisce Over You (T.R.O.Y.),” and Pete Rock is NOT happy about it. Does Rock have a legitimate beef or is he just being cranky?
While late to the game I fell in love with Issa Rae’s webseries, Awkward Black Girl, for its honest and hilarious interrogation of race and race relations via the lens of some very typical situations. From her humble approach to her daring showcasing of other talents (i.e. her rapping skills) I felt endeared to her […]
