Before I married my wife, I got to know her first. Once we got to know each other, we eased into a romantic courtship which culminated with our wedding. Whenever my father was looking to purchase a car, he was strategic. He researched the car, learned of its capabilities and its limitations....

BLACK PEOPLE, BLACK PEOPLE…DO YOU NEED A JOB??? The Department of Justice is seeking to hire linguists fluent in Ebonics to help monitor, translate, and transcribe the secretly recorded conversations of subjects of narcotics investigations, according to federal records. On the surface,...

There is a famous line in Malcolm X when after Malcolm disperses a crowd of organized NOI (Nation of Islam) members and angry Black people from a quick protest in front of a Harlem police station. A White police officer looks at Malcolm after he signals to the crowd to leave peacefully...

Baseball was never a sport that I just gravitated to. To me, and a lot of young Black males like myself and younger, Baseball is considered an “old Negro” sport – we see our grandfathers when we think of Baseball. What I mean by that is Baseball is a sport that Black kids don’t...

I want to warn people tonight. We’ve been hearing all this fuss about the Muslim Mosque and the Community Center in New York City and all of the controversy. Right now, Islam is under attack. Really, it is under attack. People are condemning Islam in their disagreement over where to place...

Education; folks there are some problems. I won’t be talking about all of them here. I’ll save much of my thoughts for a later time, but I do have some comments. Now I don’t claim to be the education guru. I am probably not the person you would expect to educate your kid. Why, well...

Okay, so first we were just suppose to experience an economic down turn – this sort of thing is usually normal we were told – we just had to encourage Congress to prevent a recession. Then it turned into an economic recession that wasn’t suppose to last too long, as long as Congress...

Growing up, I wanted to know the difference between Islam – Sunni and Shi’ite Islam – and the Nation of Islam. After some research, I found out the difference. After watching Spike Lee’s Malcolm X, I really believed that the Nation of Islam was pointless other than to organize Black...

Marijuana...mary jane…cannabis…weed…grass…reefer…trees…the chief…the chronic. Is it really dangerous? Is it more dangerous than say, alcohol? Should it be illegal? My cat loves some catnip...its just weed for cats...she gets high off it...So high like John Legend. So why...

Disclaimer: I am about to get really racial...just for a paragraph. Nigger, Nigger, Nigger, Nigger, Nigger… I am sure that there are some White people who just feel like they need to let loose on a “Nigger” rant…Hell, there are some Black folk that need to let loose on a “Nigger”...