Too often, we focus on the negativity. The negativity of our past, which included oppression and bigotry, and the negativity of our present and future, which include high incarceration rates and an exorbitant high school dropout rate, are often the only stories we see. Nevertheless, the Red Tails movie directed by newcomer Anthony Hemingway and […]

The Red Tails movie is not your typical Black period piece. It does not loathe in the self-pity of oppression like The Help, but shows younger audience members that with discipline and hard work, one can turn from victimized to victorious. As a matter of fact, Col. A.J. Bullard (Terrence Howard) chastises “Easy” (Nate Parker) […]

Mark Wahlberg has done it again. The rapper-turned-actor’s string of hit action films continue with the Contraband movie. Before starting, let’s get the bad news out of the way before focusing on the good news. The Contraband movie drags just a bit at the beginning while setting up the story line, but once the action […]

Webster’s defines a pariah as an outcast. No matter who you are, everyone knows the feeling of being out casted by your friends, family or classmates for your weight, looks or socioeconomic class. In the Black community, subjecting a family member to harsh treatment because of their sexuality is something that is known, but is […]

The Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy movie promotes itself as being unlike any other spy film out there. That assertion is completely true. The Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy movie, set in the early 1970s during the Cold War, focuses on the British Secret Intelligence Service, known as “The Circus,” and the possibility that there is a […]

Undoubtedly, Michael Jordan is the best basketball player ever to lace up a pair of sneakers. He is also probably the best product-pitchman we have ever seen. And although I do not know Jordan personally, it is almost safe to say that being the best in certain areas of life, does not always translate to […]

2011 was the year of the revolution. Time magazine even named “the protestor” as their person of the year. From the Occupy Wall Street movement in our beloved country, to the uprisings throughout North Africa and the Middle East, revolutionaries let their voices be heard and change occurred rapidly in places that had fought it […]

Jonah Hill may have a new look, but in The Sitter film he is still his old self. And although comedies that star actors like Hill or Seth Rogen follow the same script, that recycled script never gets old and moviegoers will definitely not be disappointed in Hill’s new film, even though he is upstaged […]

On Dec. 4, my pastor Dr. Ralph Douglas West delivered a sermon on the genealogy of Jesus Christ. Anybody who knows Christian theology knows that Jesus did not come from a royal background. He came from regular folks with regular, everyday problems, but they still produced the Person who would save the world. The story […]

Many men will not be intrigued with My Week with Marilyn. But most men are probably intrigued by the life and beauty of Marilyn Monroe. Monroe was the quintessential Hollywood beauty, and the precedent to which Hollywood still bases its standard of beauty. She was one of the first sex symbols in Hollywood, and while […]