If you have watched the news or been online at all today, I am sure you’ve heard about the protests of Neo-nazis, Klansmen, and other far rightists that descended on Charlottesville, Virginia. They’re violent and are deadly serious about their…
Homelessness is a major problem in American society. It’s a predicament that in this writer’s opinion, doesn’t have to exist. Due to the rampant greed of real estate companies, compounded with a severely weakened social safety net, it’s a reality…
The rap game is losing so many of its great artists. As I am sure you have all heard by now, Prodigy of Mobb Deep passed away today at 42. As was widely known, he suffered from sickle cell anemia…
Billionaire Presidential Candidate Donald Trump’s biggest sale to the electorate isn’t that he’s a brilliant businessman (though some people seem to think that starting with big money and ending up with big money makes him one), but rather that he’s…
The longer this goes on, the harder it becomes to take this election cycle seriously. Here we are, with about two months left to go until the country votes for a new president, and the surrogates of politicians are trying…
The media is predictably singing the praises of rap mogul Diddy for opening a charter school in Harlem. Now, before I get into this post, many of you will wonder why I am talking about this, despite this looking like…
The results of yesterday’s political contests across 11 states are all in. Hillary Clinton came in first, winning 7 of the most delegate rich states. Her Democratic primary opponent Bernie Sanders, took the other four states. The Republican primaries resulted…
Greetings all. This was an interesting February, wasn’t it? A few things happened over the weekend that I didn’t have a chance to talk about, so I am going to do it in this post. This day only comes once…
Recently, there has been a great deal of talk about reparations for Black Americans in the public sphere. With the efforts of Ta-Nehisi Coates over at The Atlantic, reparations has become a hot topic for the last two years especially. …
Today is February 1st, and that means in the United States and Canada it’s Black History Month. This is an interesting time. We have an outgoing African-American president, and we’re in an election year. We will have to be mindful…