Two things that bothered me today

The NFL has a domestic violence crisis on its hands, and everyone is acting like this is new. "Don't ask, don't tell" has been the world's view of domestic violence since the beginning of time, but once again the demonization of Black men in America is a perfect news peg to prove a point. The problem, aside from domestic violence,…

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Another NBA team owner eats his words…

My mother always used to tell me not to let my mouth write a check that my ass can't cash... Read the e-mail first. Click here to read the e-mail.   A Twitter storm emerged over the weekend after a two-year-old racist e-mail from Hawks owner Bruce Levenson came out. In the e-mail the owner is expressing his concerns about…

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New York City’s Schools

"Shannon was the valedictorian when she graduated from a city school, only to find out when she enrolled in a community college that her education was so slipshod that she needed remedial classes. (Only 58 percent of the city’s black high-schoolers graduate within four years; of those, 13 percent are prepared for college, according to the New York State Education…

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