SPOILER ALERT Black Jesus: Jesus is in Compton trying to encourage peace and economic empowerment in the hood. The way he plans to do this is by starting a community garden with his few faithful followers. Now, instead of eating fried chicken, brothas in the hood are eating salads and feeling better and more energized. Obstacles to this flourishing…
"When I first moved out to LA, when my agent would send me out on auditions I had to ask whether or not they had submitted me as black or white, so I could decide how I was going to style my hair, how I was going to speak, how was I going to perform my race that day." -…
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,…
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…
"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…
Here is the proof: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/31/arts/music/andre-3000-is-moving-on-in-film-music-and-life.html?smid=tw-nytimes&_r=1 "Part of art is knowing when not to put paint on. And when to change your medium." "I hate cages, and sometimes nostalgia is a cage." "What I get off on is doing things people said could not be done. And so if I’m at a place where I feel like I’m regurgitating or doing…