People of color (POC) need to do more to help each other. I see it too often where someone has made it and they do little to help others, especially POC, unless it somehow benefits them. Too many people are worried about their brands regardless of whether they are real or just simply in their […]
Until they put you six feet under… Until your body and/or mind gives out on you completely…It is never too late to make a positive change in your life. It is never too late to grow. It is never too late to implement change in your life. It is never too late to start […]
I am aware how self-serving today’s topic is considering I am a writer, but the importance of reading cannot be overstated. Reading is more than fundamental it is the tool that can separate the not so fine line of ignorance versus knowledge. Society is moving fast. Change, whether you deem it progress or a hindrance, […]
Five letters that, when truly sincere, can have so much impact and meaning to so many. Until fairly recently I had rarely apologized in my life. Of course “my bad” easily rolled off my tongue after I fouled a little too hard in ball or came to close to hitting a pedestrian at a crosswalk, […]
The Chicago Cubs have won their first World Series since 1908. That is a 108 year absence since the teams last victory. To put it in even further perspective this was the 112th year ever of the existence of having a World Series. There have been multiple generations of Cubs fans who have endured heartbreak […]
By Richard Ray Once upon a time in small communities like Brooklyn, NY, residents would walk down the street and see a neighborhood patrolman, we will call him officer McMurphy, rousing the local hooligans for missing school, loitering or just general perceived mischief. Now back then this wasn’t profiling, racial or otherwise, because McMurphy […]
Forget the Walking Dead zombies, vampires, werewolves and the undead everyone is so fascinated with, because the real apocalypse is upon us and I feel like it may already be too late to stop it. Bitchassness is upon us people. Be afraid…be very afraid. If you are not worried, chances are you have already been […]
I have been an insomniac for well over twenty years now. It started in college and grad school where the cocktail of no curfew, my own room for the first time and the stress of procrastination in having to stay up late to get my work done conditioned my body to late nights and early […]
I am the lead architect, Chief Engineer, El Capitan, HNIC, CEO, Big Dawg, Boss Hogg of all of the Chaos in my life. Sure, there are other contributors, enablers and facilitators who can share in the credit and/or blame, but at the end of the day all the responsibility for my life’s choices and status […]
My mother grew up poor in the housing projects of Brownsville, Brooklyn. Despite her occasional Tina Turner accent from incessant British Broadcasting Channel (BBC) watching, she was hardly refined growing up. She raised three boys into strong men amidst difficult circumstances and a challenging environment. We have all progressed from her lessons of education […]
