As Black History Month comes to a close for the 35th time I am left reinvigorated. The family and I went to Washington DC last week for four days to see the sights. It's one of those things that I always wanted to do but like so many things in my childhood it was just [...]
When I was a young man growing up in 90s Bed-Stuy Brooklyn there were certain things that I eventually grew accustomed to. There was the sound of gunshots in the night. Long hot summers where anything was possible, and violence was inevitable. Conversations that began with "Yo, did you hear about..." And being searched by [...]
I was re-reading Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letter from a Birmingham Jail and I had to pause to take a deep breath a time or two. Not because his letter was a tear jerker - it's not. It's truth spoken to power and is not at all sentimental. The ideas from his letter that [...]
I think I'm tired of mean people. (I say "I think" because I'm not sure if I'm mean people myself or not.) I don't mind people who say or do mean things for the sake of comedy and to make others laugh. Heck, I'm one of those people. But what I've had enough of are [...]
He's barely been president for a half a day and I've already got a gripe: Why wasn't I invited to at least one of the ten official inaugural balls? I could have shined up my UGGs and shaved for the occasion. I can do the robot and the snake with the best of them. I'm [...]
