Posted on 05/15/08For those who are graduating from high school (or have relatives graduating next may), here is a quick rhyme I wrote about kicking butt in college. It is my firm belief that EVERY CHILD IS COLLEGE...
More Posted on 04/06/08A Note to my Friends – WHY I AM BOYCOTTING THE NCAA
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Last year, I engaged in a short campaign on CNN, CBS Sports, ESPN and the LA Times to highlight major problems with...
More Posted on 02/22/08When 50 Cent says something, most of us don't listen. As a hip hop fan, I don't even listen to his music anymore, since it has gotten extraordinarily whack. But when a Nobel Prize Winner agrees with...
More Posted on 02/22/08Shortly before Lil Wayne's arrest, I'd become reacquainted
with him. I've met a lot of artists through time, and even
when I met Wayne a couple of years ago, I wasn't impressed.
I honestly...
More Posted on 02/22/08I was talking to my uncle, who is not exactly Donald Trump. He earns a pay rate that is not indistinguishable from minimum wage, lives in an apartment that requires rent by the week, and spends a...
More Posted on 11/02/07
My questions for Dr. Huxtable, as he engages in his ego-maniacal "reign of terror", completed in celebration of his latest cure for 400 years worth of social ills would be listed below. Of course,...
More Posted on 10/23/07A friend (Valencia Roner) called me one night to ask if I watch "The O'Reilly Factor". I said "No, I don't watch silly, racist television programs." She then informed me that I might want to watch...
More Posted on 09/23/07Education is your vehicle, it’s kinda like your first car
Here are tips from the top on how to live like a star
You think school’s not important and you let your grades slide?
Well, buckle up my...
More Posted on 09/23/07I’ve been asked by some to clarify my position on Michael Vick. The Today Show interview may or may not get it right tomorrow, but I thought I would let my friends have the 411. I also share some...
More Posted on 07/05/07I was taken aback yesterday by the volume of hate mail I received in response to the last article I wrote about Mike Nifong, the prosecutor in the Duke LaCrosse case.
Apparently, a few folks had...
More Posted on 06/11/07Those who think rappers' brains are not worth a nickel might wish their own brains were worth 50 cent. Recently, in a deal for the sale of Glaceau (makers of Vitamin Water) to Coca-Cola, 50 Cent (aka...
More Posted on 06/11/07The numbers are in and as usual the Syracuse City School District doesn't have enough money.
It's not just the schools, officials hailed new funds from Washington to demolish dilapidated homes...
More Posted on 04/09/07Black women, as beautiful as they are, are not usually the first ones to line up for any form of cosmetic surgery. God made you the envy of the world and it’s going to stay that way. But being the...
More Posted on 04/09/07I turned the TV on ESPN
I saw the Big Brown Baller again
The one who can jump straight out of the gym
Who scores 50 points and hangs on the rim
The latest great athlete of the NCAA
The...
More Posted on 01/28/07I was the best man in my good friend’s wedding. It all seemed right, since he and his girlfriend had been getting naked together for about 2,438 years. Over the following 9 months, I watched their...
More Posted on 01/05/07You are hung over from a highs of financial gluttony caused by the Christmas Holidays. Your kids have more toys than Santa, your wallet is in the the Intensive Care Unit of the local hospital, and...
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