Recently I blogged on a scene from HBO’s Treme where a tour bus pulled up to a group of Black New Orleanians initiating a funeral (Continue Reading)
Recently I blogged on a scene from HBO’s Treme where a tour bus pulled up to a group of Black New Orleanians initiating a funeral (Continue Reading)
My wife and I went to a graduation where we parked in a huge parking lot and stupidly forgot to mark where our car was. (Continue Reading)
Stalin was a major leader of WW II, one of our allies, that’s it. That’s why he’s there. If you want him gone for moral (Continue Reading)
Mel Gibson’s periodic meltdowns serve as fodder for columnists’ essays on the state of race relations. The comments attached illustrate both the lack of a (Continue Reading)
A member of a listserv argued with me some years ago that the findings in The Bell Curve, specifically that certain groups are superior or (Continue Reading)
Recently I went to dinner with relatives and one boy of 15 was there. As he walked to the table, he was dancing and I (Continue Reading)
Another stalwart has left us. One of those original people who accepted me into their church even though I never joined, never even became a (Continue Reading)
I had an interesting experience yesterday at school. The band was setting up for a pep rally outside my room and the kid on the (Continue Reading)
Sometimes you just have to go to church. Not being a religious person, I sometimes raise eyebrows over my enthusiasm for going to church. But (Continue Reading)
Black solidarity is something that really irritates some people. We still hear angry White people mutter about OJ, citing videos of Blacks jubilant at the (Continue Reading)
The mystery of Michael Jackson dissolved in the BET Awards ceremony broadcast only 3 days after his unexpected and shocking passing. No one was interested (Continue Reading)
One example of how African influences get lost or buried was revealed to me very early, before I had ever thought about the African-Americans among (Continue Reading)
Tonight I once again witnessed a fascinating phenomenon of Af-Am music, Af-Am in the broadest sense to include all of the Americas: the way the (Continue Reading)
This morning my wife struggled with baggage at the airport. Of all days to arrive late, the day after Christmas was not the one. I (Continue Reading)
Opening a new category, I would like to mention a couple of old records, one just discovered today and one I’ve enjoyed over the years. (Continue Reading)
My wife and I bought a pig-in-a-poke, tickets to a performance at ASU, but it had to do with the influence of African dance on (Continue Reading)