The man known for creating the nationally syndicated comic strip The Boondocks in the late 1990s also has his hands in a film being released this weekend. Aaron McGruder, the controversial man with wide-ranging opinions on a vast variety of subjects, co-wrote Red Tails. The project, financed by fil... Read more...
Sadly, the grim reports that dominated the college football news cycle beginning Saturday evening were a precursor to the inevitable but still numbing reality: a coaching legend has passed. A family spokesperson confirmed to the Associated Press that Joseph Vincent Paterno has died at a Stat... Read more...
I write about a lot of things and lately I have been writing heavy but today I actually don’t want to write about one particular topic. I just want to free write and reflect on a few things in my life, if you don’t mind. One of my earliest memories as a human being/child was my grandmother com... Read more...
In many ways, basketball superstar Dwyane Wade leads a double life. By day, the Miami Heat guard is an NBA legend, but by night, Wade is a single father to his two young sons and his nephew. Moms dropping their kids off at school didn't know what to make of him at first. "I was like one o... Read more...
Dolemite is a pimp who was set up by Willie Greene and the cops, who have planted drugs, stolen furs, and guns in his trunk and got him sentenced to 20 years in jail. One day, Queen B and a warden planned to get him out of Jail and get Willie Green and Mitchell busted for what they did to him. H... Read more...
Here's a tale that Dr. Seuss never wrote: the man formerly known as Jeffrey Drew Wilschke has been arrested again by Madison, Wisconsin police, who'd received phone calls from concerned residents. It seems the former Mr. Wilschke had been prowling around a local park, not far from the state�... Read more...
For Mumia Abu-Jamal, I am Ron Kovic author of Born on the Fourth of July. According to recent news accounts, shattered and shredded body parts and remains of U.S. servicemen were found in a landfill. Despite political spins, this sobering image is a telling, true-life metaphor fo... Read more...
Many of you in recent months have begun to proclaim yourselves as what you believe to be a "Sneakerhead" largely due to the fact that you... occasionally wear sneakers. This myth couldn't be further from the truth. How can you be a sneakerhead if you know absolutely nothing about the sneakers you c... Read more...
There are two types of people in this world: the ones who share videogame controllers and the ones who don’t. Which one are you? It came up again today, the old argument. My husband, David, and I were shopping at the GameStop, intending to take advantage of their buy-two-get-one-free-on-preo... Read more...