I really don’t understand the rift between Spike Lee and Tyler Perry over the type of movies that they feel appropriate for the African American audience. I personally feel that both directors have brought a great deal of the African American experience to the screen that had been missing from other directors...Read More

The growing Occupy the Dream movement for economic equality and empowerment emerging across the United States has correctly determined that one of its top priorities is to support fervently the passage of a Constitutional amendment to make all federal elections publicly financed. Getting corporate money out of politics will stop and prevent the fatal lynching of our democracy. The Constitutional amendment will be effective in the expanding...Read More

Dez Bryant provides a good economic example of what is happening to Blacks across America. In heavy debt after leveraging his first-year salary to pay for ‘bling-lifestyle’ amenities, during the National Football League (NFL) lockout, the 24-year-old wide receiver had to turn to payday lenders to help him keep up his game. Desmond Demond ‘Dez’ Bryant started spending on his salary as a NFL player for the Dallas Cowboys when he was drafted in the first round of the 2010 NFL Draft.  During the 18 months...Read More