By Richard Ray April 4th marks the 50th Anniversary of the death of Martin Luther King Jr. The purveyor of non-violence was gunned down on the balcony of a Memphis Hotel in 1968, assassinated by a White Nationalist/Supremacist determined to disrupt the Civil Rights Leader’s quest for a more just and empathetic America. The […]
By Richard Ray: I caught parts of the interview OJ Simpson sat down for with Judith Regan. The truth is the Fox aired program was taken from footage shot in 2006. The interview was originally supposed to air as part of the promotion for the book Simpson co-authored “If I did it” in which […]
By Richard Ray: I recently read of a father in Virginia who’s video showed him punishing his kid by making him run a mile to school. The ten year old was suspended from using the bus because of bullying issues and the father chose to discipline him by making him run to school for […]
By Richard Ray: I don’t care how independent you are. I don’t care how talented, intelligent, resourceful or even well off you are. Everyone’s sustained success in life is dependent on the support system we have. Suspecting I was an introvert and unsure of my social capabilities, my mother once tried to relay to […]
By Richard Ray May 19 should be a worldwide holiday. It will never happen in the United States, but the day needs to be more celebrated as the birth day of one of the greatest men in our history. Malcolm X (born Malcolm Little) and later known as el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz was born on […]
By Richard Ray: Ignorance is a word that is bandied about often. A definition of ‘ignorance” is lack of knowledge or information, but while I am not Merriam-Webster, I do think there is a distinct difference between ignorance and lack of knowledge. I am formally educated. I went to a great high school. I was […]
By Richard Ray: In an ode to Captain Obvious, I declare that the cold weather… really, really, really sucks. As I write this, over a third of the US population is experiencing arctic temperatures below freezing and many with feel likes temperatures below zero. Even the Sunshine state, has recently been experiencing colder than […]
By Richard Ray: Hope rings eternal at the start of every new year. Who am I to extinguish anyone’s optimism? I am hope and optimism’s biggest fan. I have just never understood why people save it all for January 1st. The new years brings promises of renewed diets, renewed gym visits and health regimes. […]
By Richard Ray: The CEO and one of the founders of Golden Krust, a seemingly successful restaurant chain with over 120 stores (mostly franchises) in 9 states and products sold in groceries stores in over 30 states, died. Lowell Hawthorne, a Jamaican immigrant, who worked as a NYPD accountant for nine years before starting […]
Once a year, collectively as a nation, we designate a day to give thanks. Regardless of the history behind the holiday’s formation, whether it was Pilgrims giving thanks for their first harvest or George Washington and the nation’s new Congress proclaiming often 3 or 4 days of thanks in celebration of military or other victories. […]
