It seems there’s always so much press, uproar & hoopla when some crazy ass editor lacking creativity & vision decides to geniusly put  White models in Black face in a by any means necessary desperate attempt to sell…

I was web surfing the other day & came across a full online version of a special issue of Ebony Magazine from 1973. What a beautiful throwback that is very relevant to  life today as Americans & in…

James Baldwin was by far one of America’s literary treasures, who like many Black artists of his time had to go to Paris to get their shine before their own nation found the priceless value in its own Black Diamonds.…

There can be no celebration of Black History, the Harlem Renaissance or the global literary world without the mention of James Mercer Langston Hughes. Today we not only honor the birth of Langston Hughes, but  also the start…

By now everyone who has any access to technology via Twitter,Facebook or Blogs should know about Kelly Williams Bolar-The Ohio mom who was put in jail for sending her child to a better school outside her district. Yes she…

As more Black films & Black filmmakers converge at Sundance more than ever in a new initiative via Ava Duvernay’s African-American Film Festival Releasing Movement’s efforts for greater focus on the writing, producing, directing & distribution of Black Films,…

As Black history month is nearing its close in the shortest month of the year, I found myself engulfed in debates & really looking at Black history- past & present from Africa to the Diaspora. I went to a film…

“In the future as the world of Africa & the West mate more & more into the totality of world culture, the creative strength of the African personality, which is evident in tribal sculpture, will contribute far more profoundly…

I am beyond flabbergasted, disgusted & ashamed of my fellow Black Americans in our continual disregard & failure to live & teach by example when it comes to our children. I could not believe the amount of Black Americans, whose…

Billions have been raised so far in charitable donations for Haiti, but more & more Haitians are dying every day after surviving being buried alive in years of poverty & the rubble of the earthquake, having only their sheer will…