In his historic letter from a Birmingham jail, Martin Luther King, Jr. stated “injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” Those words can also be paraphrased to state injustice to anyone is a threat to justice for everyone. Black America, and some in mainstream America, have been justifiably up in arms over the senseless […]

The loss of a grandparent is always a tough pill to swallow, but even more so for those in the Black community. For many of us, our grandparents lived in an era where their dreams were cut short early in life for various reasons. For some, those dreams were cut short by bigotry and racism. […]

You did not have a real childhood if you did not play the battleship combat game or never saw the commercial where children bragged, “You can’t sink my battleship.” Playing that game was a right of passage for children growing up in the 1980s, but can nostalgia alone make for a successful film? In recent […]

Sorry Black men, but your life is worth nothing. It is worth nothing in the eyes of the law, which allows others to brutalize you and murder you without any repercussions. And it is worth nothing in comparison to other forms of life, not just human beings. Most of the country has paid attention to […]

Understanding the opposite sex has always been a difficult task. Honestly, understanding one’s self and what’s best for one\’s self is also difficult. Furthermore, understanding what to look for in the opposite sex and understanding how to spot the right mate has baffled men and women for centuries. However, when comedian Steve Harvey came out […]

What is newsworthy about leaking an athlete’s low Wonderlic test scores? Reporters did it in 2006 with quarterback Vince Young and now history is repeating itself with defensive back Morris Claiborne from LSU. The Wonderlic is a test given by National Football League executives at the Draft Combine every year to test a football prospect’s […]

I was sitting in a ninth grade science class when the classroom discussion shifted to teenage marijuana use. One of my classmates, who happened to be White, stated that everyone at our high school had experimented with marijuana use in the past. When I said I hadn’t, he looked shocked. While I had not fallen […]

Come on Black people. I mean, you are seriously upset at Mary J. Blige for singing a song endorsing a Burger King crispy chicken wrap and getting paid $2 million. Get real! The stereotype of Blacks and chicken goes back for generations. Supposedly, because White people said there was something wrong with Black people eating […]

Every movement towards social justice has its controversies and detractors. The 30-minute film Kony 2012 is no different. And although filmmaker Jason Russell has created a movement, he has not escaped criticism. Nevertheless, what Kony 2012 has accomplished in a very short span is bringing awareness to the atrocities that the children of Uganda have […]

As the publisher of an online magazine geared towards African American men, I constantly get complaints from non-African Americans that publications like mine are the reason why there is racism in the world. I constantly hear the argument that if people like me would stop mentioning race, then racism would go away. I guess ignoring […]