Lawrence Ware's posts

Boyz II Men’s second album, Christmas Interpretations, is the best, most complete, Christmas album of the modern…

When I was 10, I was forced to give my life to Christ.

Top Boy is one of the best shows I’ve seen this year, but no one seems to be talking about it.

Kanye West will come out with an album…at some point.

Spike Lee’s third film, Do The Right Thing, turns 30 years old on Sunday, July 21, but its message is so fresh that…

Legendary filmmaker John Singleton was laid to rest this week after he passed away at the age of 51. Naturally, it…

One of the first sermons I ever preached was titled “Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve.”

Although I attended a black church my entire life, I was ordained into the Southern Baptist Convention, an…

This week, Betty Shelby, the Tulsa Police Officer who shot and killed Terence Crutcher—and claimed he “caused his…

Updated: Monday, July 17, 2018; 3:53 EDT: When I wrote this piece, I was not aware that, according to court records, …

I was 34 years old when I could no longer escape the man I never wanted to see again.

Editor’s note: This story contains graphic descriptions of a lynching, which some may find triggering. 

I was walking home from my friend G’s house when I noticed the bright-orange cutoff notice on the door.

From 1979 to 1981, at least 28 black boys and young adults were murdered in the South. Atlanta Monster is a podcast…

Black Panther is the official movie of Black History Month 2018—but after I watched the movie, a nagging question…

The Grammys rarely get it right.

I love a good bad movie. You know them: Meteor Man, I’m Gonna Git You Sucka, Undercover Brother [Editor’s note:…

2017 was a great year for black movies and TV shows, but one would not know it if one looked only at most critics’…

The last time I saw my grandmother alive was at my uncle Bobby’s funeral. She looked tired. Grandma breathlessly…

My son Quinn loves Christmas. Like—he loves it in a watch-How the Grinch Stole Christmas-on-the-Fourth of July kind…