Lawrence Ross's posts

There are five stages of grief, political or otherwise.

In the Age of Trump, you can’t help be pessimistic about the future. There’s something nasty about this new age. A…

The Fourth of July, or the Fourth of You Lie as we black folks like to call it, is here again. And we’ll be…

It’s important for people to understand why it’s OK for Nipsey Hussle to be seen as a hero in South Los Angeles.…

When it comes to predicting the future, I tend to listen to the wisdom of the black women in my family. Grandmamas,…

“I write things for money.”

My grandfather, nicknamed Popeye because of his huge forearms, was a wheeler dealer decades before Mike ran off Edd (…

Back in 1999, right after our son Langston was born, something amazing happened. No, it wasn’t us realizing that…

Back in 1976, I used to beg my mom each morning to get me to school early, just so I could play an insane inner-city…

Why the hell do people buy old-ass cars from the 1960s? They cost too much, for one thing. They’re unreliable to…

My first real experience with the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. happened in 1980, just 12 years after his tragic…

Willie Wardell owns the Mighty Midget Mart Shell gas station, located at 4936 Albemarle Road in Charlotte, N.C., and…

I wanna make this clear: Iwi Fresh Garden Day Spa at 341 Nelson St. SW in Atlanta is one of the best black-owned…

Yeah, so lemme tell you about my trip to Greenville, S.C. My task was to find the Dr. Gibbs Tourist Home, located at…

In the 1957 Negro Motorist Green Book, the Connally Tourist Home is located just a block away from Morris Brown…

In the short time that I have to research these Green Book spots, the hardest ones tend to be those that were owned…

Another night on the road, another black-owned hotel stay. This time it was the Hilton Garden Inn Atlanta…

More chillin’ at a black-owned hotel! This one is the Residence Inn by Marriott Birmingham Downtown at the…

As I’ve noted over and over, I don’t know what I’ll find when I go to a Green Book location. Thousands of miles, a…