Honey Boo Boo Forever
Here Comes Honey Boo Boo is the best show in the history of shows, ever. Better than The Wire. Better than Soul Train, which up until recently was my favorite show. It’s the finest thing anyone has ever committed to the silver screen and I watch it twice every damn time it comes on. What’s … Read more
Brothas in Space
In case you missed it, NASA landed a mobile laboratory the size of a Mini Cooper on the surface of Mars on Sunday. According to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), the Curiosity rover will be “searching for past or present life, studying the Martian climate, studying Martian geology, and collecting data for a future manned mission … Read more
A Dark Night for Black Superheroes
This Summer’s movies have been packed with action and super powers. The three most anticipated movies of this summer were based on superheroes. The Avengers surpassed my expectations, I didn’t bother to see the Spiderman reboot, and The Dark Knight Rises was just as epic and dramatic as I hoped it would be (even though … Read more
Social Night Injustices
Here comes another well-deserved weekend. A time when the majority of us can find rest and relaxation in our lives. It may also be a time to go in, rage, go ham, turn up etc. This is when people of all races take to the streets in search of inebriation and cathartic music, though social … Read more
How to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse (as a Black Guy)
Zombies have grown in popularity in the last few years. Movies like Resident Evil and Shaun of the Dead, video games like Left 4 Dead and Dead Island, books like World War Z and Pride, Prejudice and Zombies, and shows like The Walking Dead have brought zombie fiction into the mainstream. Even Game of Thrones … Read more
The Bubble of Ignorance
We live a time when people can find validation and reinforcement with ease. We have more autonomy over what we see and hear than ever before. We can watch Game of Thrones or Ratchet Housewives of Wherever any time we want, instead of rearranging our schedules to get home by prime time. Our radio stations … Read more
Racism? Never Heard of It
Post-Racial America has put Black people in a precarious situation. We have remained steadfast in our pursuit of equality and equity, and we have made incredible strides throughout this nation’s history. As we counter the affects of thousands of years of continued exploitation, degradation and oppression, we in turn agitate the narrow-minded members of the majority. They use the … Read more
The Amazing Mr. Booker
At this point, the legend of Cory Booker is getting a bit far-fetched. This guy played D-1 Football at Stanford, studied at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, got his JD from Yale (where he set up legal clinics for poor Black folks and was a Big Brother), and at the age of 36 became the … Read more
Dark Raving Mad
Being a Black man in America has always been scary. The United States has used us as slaves and turned a blind eye to or advocated us being publicly slaughtered. The Federal Bureau of Investigations has executed plots against our communities that sought to destroy our leaders and suppress rebellion. Law enforcement agencies have sicked dogs on us, disproportionately accosted us, used excessively violent force … Read more
Rue This
The non-Trayvon Martin-related racial issue (I stopped writing about it for a while because the absolute clusterfuck of misinformation, stupid opinions, and racism out there on it is kind of irksome) of the moment is the controversy over the race of a fictional character in a movie. As you probably know, a lot of the … Read more
