There is a generation gap, a disconnection if you will, in the African American community between the young and the old. Quite frankly, there is a communication breakdown between older blacks (55 and older) and younger blacks (30 and younger). The breakdown is simply because neither constituency...

One of the more amazing things to me is how life completely changes on you when you become an adult. Of course when you become an adult you can have all kinds of fun. But with adulthood comes responsibility; car note, mortgage or rent, and daycare payments if you have kids. But it’s the...

Yesterday I was having a conversation with my good friend about our dislike for the fact that many individuals talk about the City of Camden negatively, yet the profit off of this city each and every day; siphoning resources out of Camden daily while not caring about the people who live here....

For those of you who believe that the Rapture will be on May 21st and that the world will end on October 21st… in the words of my Pastor, it is “a lie from the pit”. This guy, Harold Camping, is WRONG. He is absolutely wrong. Christians, read your Bibles. I don’t think those who believe...

So I just finished watching the Tooth Fairy with my wife (I called myself trying to be good and let her control the television for a change). Anyone who knows me knows that I just hate to get racial, but sometimes I just have to ask a question out of curiosity. Dwayne “the Rock” Johnson...

Many people believe that our Black men are in crisis… they are. Yet not in the way many individuals believe. The Black Man has been marginalized and ostracized since his enslavement over hundreds of years ago. The indoctrination of Black Man as lazy, stupid, shiftless, hopeless and worthless...

Yesterday, as I often do on Saturday mornings, I woke up and went to the barbershop. Yet yesterday was a bit different than usual. Growing up, my dad took me to Andre’s Barbershop located on Federal Street in Camden, NJ. I have been going there my entire life. Me personally, I am an animal...

Remember a few years ago when Whitney Houston was in the heights of her “crack-capades” with Bobby Brown and she was interviewed by Wendy Williams and she said the infamous line to Wendy, “crack is wack… I don’t do crack!,” do you all remember that? Well, Charlie Sheen has had...

On this second to last day of Black History month, I want to go against the grain here a little bit and talk about something a bit different. For Africans, music and instruments are a key attributes of their society. When slaves were brought to the New World, they brought with them their...

So, last week I was riding in my car listening to Teena Marie – in my own personal tribute to her – and I began thinking about the greatest female vocalists in the rhythm and blues genre. In my mind I began compiling a “Mount Rushmore” of sorts: Patti Labelle, Phyllis Hyman, Chaka...