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  • Israeli Navy Arrests Ex-Rep. Cynthia McKinney

    From CNN: ” The Israeli navy took control of a boat that violated an Israeli blockade and crossed into Gazan waters Tuesday, the Israel Defense Forces said, while a Gaza group said the ship was carrying humanitarian aid, a former U.S. congresswoman and a Nobel laureate. The boat’s crew included former U.S. Rep. Cynthia McKinney,…

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  • R.I.P., Vibe, 1993-2009

    GALLERY—Losing the Vibe Vibe magazine is dead. Just like that. No wake, no second line, no funeral. Nothing. Vibe is gone like a pocket full of singles at an Atlanta strip club. Gone, but certainly not forgotten. I can remember the inaugural Vibe magazine cover like it was yesterday. Snoop Doggy Dogg—as he was known at the…

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  • Losing the VIBE

    In September 1993, VIBE Magazine, founded by music legend Quincy Jones one month prior, published its very first issue, which featured Snoop Dogg on the cover. Captions by Tabitha Peyton Wood In April 1995, VIBE ran an interview with rap legend Tupac Shakur, in which the artist famously anticipated his death before being killed the following…

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  • VIBE Magazine Folds

    From Gawker: “Vibe Magazine—one of the biggest music magazines in America—is folding. The entire music magazine landscape is full of the dead and dying. Wikipedia sums up Vibe unexpectedly well: The magazine owes its success to having a broader range of interests than its closest competitors The Source and XXL which focus more narrowly on…

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  • A Complex(ion) Issue

    From Adam Serwer over on The Atlantic: “Ya’ll can’t get mad at me, because I haven’t done a Michael Jackson post yet. This will be my only one, barring unforseen developments. On the bus yesterday, I was reading Newsweek and found this article from David Gates on Michael Jackson: Why did he feel so deeply…

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  • The King of Debt

    With respect to my namesake, Michael Jackson was both a hero to business savvy music artists and a nightmare to creditors. The New York Times, along with many other outlets have started playing the speculation game about the financial mess the now deceased legend has left behind. It’s been estimated that Jackson has earned as…

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  • New Haven Firefighters: Are They Really Wrong?

    The ruling yesterday to support the white firefighters in New Haven is certainly a win for whites. Particularly, it’s a win for whites that have been trying to articulate reverse racism and discrimination for years. Although I do believe reverse discrimination is possible, it remains an imbalanced issue. Why, you ask a brother? It’s what…

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  • Why Shelby Steele Is Right

    I can’t believe I am writing this. But I am. Shelby Steele is right. Not in the conclusions expressed in his recent article in the Wall Street Journal about Judge Sonia Sotomayor and what her nomination reveals about President Obama’s supposed contradictions. That is the stuff of fantasy. But Steele is right about one thing:…

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  • Blipsters' Bust

    The L.A.-based trio SA-RA Creative Partners has been in the music game for nearly a decade, producing joints for Erykah Badu, Jurassic 5 and John Legend, and releasing cult, underground hit singles such as “Glorious” and “Fish Fillet.” The group—comprised of Om’Mas Keith, Shafiq Husayn and Taz Arnold—have a knack for mixing high-end glamour with…

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  • Affirmative Action Assumptions

    The New Haven firefighters’ case just decided by the Supreme Court has raised the issue of affirmative action again.  Which got me to thinking about how certain people assume that if you’re a person of color, you must be where you are because of how you look. I have talked with black students who are,…

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