Even though I’m more of a Weeknd/Frank Ocean/SZA type with R&B, I might could go out to see a show of that.  It would be fun to watch.

I disagree with that.  A lot of dudes raping, beating up and disrespecting women listen to Babyface, Al B. Sure and gospel.  I don’t get the impulse to think that hip-hop somehow invented misogyny.

One, people change all the time, and in all sorts of directions. Acknowledging how something meant to you then, and how it’s different now is just acknowledging that you’re human.

At least Andrew Jackson was about as racist as his contemporaries.  Woodrow Wilson was considered a racist by actual hardcore racists during a period where the KKK was having a resurgence.  He managed to take the few benefits Black people had that even the bigots didn’t give a damn about.  That’s impressive.

I have mixed feelings about Black teachers. Kindergarten through 8th grade, I went to an all-Black private school. On one hand, I knew my heritage front, back and side to side. Also, there were some teachers who truly and deeply cared for me. Having a school step team, and Black people doing all sorts of different…

Let’s see

That’s what I’m getting at.  Pneumonia is a rough one to treat, particularly because it can escalate quickly, and because even with the best care in the world, you have to rule out a lot of things to nail it down with tools that only work so fast.  In addition, the rise of antibioticcs stewardship to avoid treating…

I concur with the doctor in the comments. Medical racism is definitely real. However, pneumonia is a weird one. More awareness of medical racism is necessary, but it probably wouldn’t have saved her life. Every once in a blue moon, infections kill and wound even healthy White dudes. This seems like a sad example of…

I can’t believe that Philander Smith is the name of an actual, accredited college.  It sounds like some shit that’s a for-profit school offering degrees in “technology”.  That said, if he did the work investigating, and has family ties to HBCUs, it seems legit.  Good luck!

Well said on the music video part. It looks more like an extended-form music video than a movie. That said, it was a beautiful depiction of Queens. I had a friend who lived in a similar house to DMX and T-Boz. I’ve played ball in O’Connell Park, which gets featured in a couple of scenes. The “Rochdale Projects” are…

It’s a hard circle to square.  The issue is that when you have so much pressure to have only certain people allowed to participate in the public sphere, you have to give people their space to speak out how they wish.  I don’t know if there’s a neat solution to this, but I do know where the problem comes from.  

I was just thinking about the initial release of Juvenile’s Ha. I was in my sophomore year of college, and the way this song blew up was unreal. I was starting to hear more about No Limit from BET, because the backpacker set wasn’t checking for them. Still, it’s one of those songs that somehow worked in New York. It’s…

If I read it correctly, they have 4 Black members on a 17 member board.  For a state that’s 29% Black, that’s close-ish to population numbers.  

If I read it correctly, they have 4 Black members on a 17 member board.  For a state that’s 29% Black, that’s close-ish to population numbers.  

If I read it correctly, they have 4 Black members on a 17 member board.  For a state that’s 29% Black, that’s close-ish to population numbers.  

It’s both/and, not either/or.  It wasn’t that people were somehow tolerant before, but since their money was right, they didn’t feel the need to go there.  But now that their money is relatively messed up, now they want to go Back To The Future with a DeLorean and Michael J Fox.

I wouldn’t say just racist. There’s a lot of sexism wrapped in there too that can, at times, Trump the racism. (See what I did there.) They hate women in anything outside of a traditional role so bad that they’ll cosign some of anything.

There’s an effort to chance the name to West Settlement in that town, but it's proven controversial. 

Nope.  The media checked the records.  His father was an immigrant from the Phillipines, and his mother is an Italian from Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn.

So this guy, based on available public records, is Filipino and Italian.  Winners, please collect you winnings at the window.  Who predicted that one?