The Derrion Albert story reminds me of one of the more brillant moments on Sundance's Brick City. A student at Central High had been shot outside of the campus and the principal, Ras Baraka, gathered the student body to talk about it. He told them it was not normal to have classmates die, to fear walking home from school, or to wear rest in peace… Read More

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  Sundance's Brick City is the only reality TV show worth watching this week. The street soldiers, sheroes and heroes of Newark New Jersey along with Mayor Cory Booker are all attempting to renew Newark's urban landscape but they are up against the city's infamous reputation, earned mostly with blood and corruption.   The spirit of Newark is rough but Brick City wins… Read More

They all enjoy Wii bowling! Officers in the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area  Task Force down in central Florida  got a little distracted by a video game during a nine-hour drug raid. People are pretending to be outraged by it all but I want to know why does it take several police agencies nine hours to search for drugs in one house? If you didn't think the war on drugs was a joke before, check out this video.

 

The only winner here is Nintendo. These cops just saved their marketing department millions of dollars. They should pay for the drug… Read More

  It's been two weeks since our last post here and so much has happened in the world and  in our own lives. Angela started grad school in Iowa (hand clap for Ang y'all) and I've been dodging the Swine Flu (I swear when I got back to work my coworkers started avoiding me like I was President Carter). I'm also attempting to navigate my twenties without losing my bearings. Right… Read More

 

I'd like to apologize to all the folk that wanted to kill me for bragging about  my tickets to The Ecstatic tour. Y'all are just going to have to deal with me because I'm still hype about seeing Jay Electronica, Ms. Badu and the mighty Mos Def at the Palladium in Hollywood. I will be talking about that show forever. The Ecstactic Tour is the best show I've seen all year… Read More