Wednesday, February 1 2012
A Tale of How Great Journalism Became Revisionist History: Grambling State U Football
Yet for all of the good will and good information generated by focusing on Grambling, there is still a deeper story to be told about the other great black college football programs and coaches.
Thursday, December 1 2011
Herman Cain and the Myth of Acceptable Black Behavior
Called a 'Stepin Fetchit', an 'Uncle Ruckus' and worse by black pundits, I have to wonder... Has Herman Cain found a way to talk about racism in America without actually saying that word?
Wednesday, September 28 2011
Class Conflict: Hollywood’s View of the Black College Student
These eight films portray a variety of storylines, but the “black college student” movie has not come close to fulfilling its potential.
Wednesday, May 18 2011
Jalen Rose and Bernard Hopkins: The Miseducation of the Black Athlete
Bernard Hopkins, Jalen Rose and any other athlete that is confused about black male identity, might want to spend a few hours at their local public library and read up on Muhammad Ali and Duane Thomas.
Monday, March 28 2011
Television’s Evolution of the Major Black Antagonist
When TV historians talk about the black image in the 21st century, they’ll note that 2011 was the year that network TV consistently portrayed black people as major antagonists in search of the same brass rings that their white counterparts sought for nearly 60 years.
Thursday, January 20 2011
White Up the Middle: How Pro Football Changed the American Racial Psyche
Baseball and Jackie Robinson are rightly credited for beginning a major sea change in American race relations during the mid-20th century, but for a look at current relations between white and black Americans it is football, not baseball, that provides the most instructive glance.
Tuesday, November 2 2010
Searching for the Prophetic in Hip-Hop
While conscious hip-hop takes on a propagandized approach and Christian hip-hop is concerned first and foremost with Christ, prophetic hip-hop bears witness to the human condition in graphic, uncompromising terms.
Tuesday, August 24 2010
‘The Boondocks’: Carrying On the Tradition of Subversive Black Comedy
Some may be offended by the self-loathing ruminations of The Boondocks’ “Uncle Ruckus” or the Chappelle's Show,’s “blind black Klansman”, but those comedic depicitions have deep roots in America's long tradition of black humor.
Thursday, March 11 2010
Percy Sutton: A Peoples’ Aspirations Personified
Sutton's life as a soldier, lawyer, politician and businessman left a vast legacy not only to Harlem, but to all of America.
Tuesday, January 26 2010
Allen Iverson 101
Unlike athletes like Tiger Woods and Michael Jordan, Allen Iverson never 'used' the media to project an image of himself as a flawless human being.
Friday, October 30 2009
Can Tyler Perry’s ‘For Colored Girls’ Resurrect BAM?
Film adaptations from black masterpieces -- and the Chitlin Circuit -- are rejuvenating America's Black Arts Movement.
Tuesday, September 29 2009
Jay-Z: The Journey of an Icon
We can debate this greatest rapper business from now until the end of time. Let's just say Jay-Z is the greatest hip-hop icon ever, and call it a day.
Tuesday, August 25 2009
Maxwell and the Soul of Neo Soul
If Dr. Martin Luther King composed songs they may very well sound like Maxwell at his best.
