Usually I leave the music news to Dallas, who does a really good job of keeping me abreast of what the young folk are listening to. Last week’s post on Kobe’s faux pax and the subject matter of this week’s entry are leading me to believe that I am fully committed to being unequivocally hated [...]
Seriously, folks, I want to put my basketball blogs in the Disney vault, but since it’s the only thing I find worth watching, I kind of have to continue writing about the sport. Go with what I know. Last week, Kobe Bryant got into all kinds of trouble for spazzing the bleep out at a [...]
For the last couple of weeks, I’ve been detoxing. That’s right. No cheeseburgers, no jibaritos, no vanilla malts. First a vegan diet, then a raw one, now a vegetable juice fast. Although some of the stuff I’ve had tastes like ass terrible, I did enjoy much of it. Coconut water, an acquired taste for many, [...]
I know, I know. I really, really need to stop blogging about basketball. What can you expect from me if it’s practically the only thing I watch these days? Seriously, I’m going to start weening myself off of March Madness. I have got to kick this college basketball jones. This will be hard, but I [...]
I swear I’ll stop writing about Jalen Rose and The Fab Five after this week. I promise. I did, however, want to beat this dead horse one more good time take a moment to make a request of my (s)kinfolk. What follows is a clip of ESPN’s Chris Broussard discussing the Jalen Rose/Grant Hill issue [...]
If last week’s rather desultory and occasionally poorly rendered post on The Fab Five was any indication, my love for Jalen Rose and the rest of the Fab Five is immense and endures even today. I appreciate many of the things they symbolized. Just like back in ’91, many do not hold this cohort of [...]
Last night I caught ESPN’s 30 for 30 installment, The Fab Five. The documentary chronicles the two years the University of Michigan men’s basketball team captured the imagination–and ire–of the sports watching public. I was a young kid when Jalen Rose, Jimmy King, Juwan Howard, Ray Jackson, and Chris Webber revolutionized college basketball and rocked [...]
I was going to serve up a nice little nihilistic rant to begin the week, but I’ve thought better of it. Instead, I will provide you with a list. It’s been a while since I’ve done a list, right? Last week, I failed to give a special birthday shout out to Nina Simone. After posting [...]
Last week, Fallon posted a clip of a comedy bit, The Real Housewive of Civil Rights, and asked whether the sketch was funny and/or totally inappropriate.
Now that the Super Bowl dust has settled, I am nursing my way out of an omg-no-football-for-seven-months depression with small bits of NBA basketball (Derek Rose has overtaken Chris Paul as my favorite player), until March Madness helps me get through the last leg of my winter hibernation. Overall, the big game was rather entertaining, [...]
Far too many Black youth continue to be demonized, criminalized and murdered.
Enough is enough!
In response to this intensifying crisis, the Black Youth Project (BYP) has launched “The Pledge.”
With “The Pledge,” we are asking individuals and organizations to close ranks around black youth and make a commitment to take action and fight with black youth as they confront a relentless crisis. We at the BYP believe that each person can make a difference by doing something!
By taking The Pledge we not only articulate our concern about black youth, but symbolically unite our voices with others who will work to confront this crisis.
If we each take action, whether it is starting a group, signing a petition, or mentoring a young person in your neighborhood, then we all become a part of the solution.
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Usually I leave the music news to Dallas, who does a really good job of keeping me abreast of what the young folk are listening to. Last week’s post on Kobe’s faux pax and the subject matter of this week’s entry are leading me to believe that I am fully committed to being unequivocally hated [...]
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