By most accounts, 2016 was balls. So many of our favorite celebrities bought the farm. Trump was elected. It was so…

I feel like I’m in a pretty enviable position in life. Since I was 18-years-old, I’ve been surrounded by Black…

In the summer of 1997, right after graduating from high school, I was offered the opportunity to participate in a…

Yesterday morning I read an article in the Washington Post’s “Express” mini-paper called “Political shopping lists”…

If you know like I know you don’t want to step to this Christmas season doesn’t officially begin until the first…

I’m one of those people who never wanted to serve on a jury. I live in Washington, DC, and because of the population…

Last Friday, Donald Glover,  who is having the best.year.ever. under his nom de plume (the cool kids all have them,…

How (sur) real is…this?

I love Queen Sugar. Let’s start there. I’d take Queen Sugar on a $200 date, juju on the beat with it, and cook greens…

First things first, this will not be a review. There are a million of those on-line and they are all glowing. They…

Can you believe it? Thanksgiving is right around the corner. Look, I believe in miracles, magic, and that I can fly…

My daughter was born in January of 2009, a week after Barack Obama was sworn into the office of the Presidency. I…

Yesterday, I wrote a piece entitled, “Male Birth Control Trials Halted Because of Side Effects. Good.” where I…

So it looks like we’re getting closer to a marketplace available effective male-specific birth control method.  The…

Gospel artist Damon Little has a song out right now called, “I Won’t Be Defeated.” It’s a great song. Do you know…

I’m a dance dad. While I’m not standing outside the studio yelling at my daughter to get in formation or tighten up…

Congregation of St. Panama Jackson the United Methodist Baptist Pentecostal AME Church of God in Christ Episcopal…

Noted poet laureate and Tennessee philosopher king Indo G, of short-lived affiliation with Three 6 Mafia, once…

On Saturday evening, Lifetime aired Surviving Compton: Dre, Suge, and Michel’le, which as the title suggests, is the…

A few weeks ago, I saw on Facebook that somebody was teaching a class on Beyoncé and specifically Lemonade at the…