You didn’t think I’d be silent about President Obama’s State of the Union address, did you? First, we hear that Obama couldn’t push through his true agenda because of Republican Congressional opposition—even though his Democrats dominated both houses during the first two years in office. But he now wants to raise the minimum wage, provide free […]
Read More STATE OF MADNESSEDIT (Jan. 19, 2026 / MLK Day): I’m resurfacing this post from over ten years ago because MLK is still flattened into a children’s-book version of himself every January. I have one quick item to clarify: the 1999 wrongful-death civil case was brought by the King family against Loyd Jowers, and the jury’s verdict found […]
Read More REMINDER: WHO KILLED MLKWhile Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Cheryl Boone Isaacs, an African American, responded to the absence of Oscar nominations for Black folks this year by hoping for increased diversity in the future, news show-hosting civil activist and preacher Al Sharpton has called for an emergency meeting to discuss a plan of action to address what he called […]
Read More THE OSCARS DIDN’T GET THAT POST-RACIAL AMERICA MEMO EITHERYou never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it’s an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before. —Rahm Emanuel There is another point about the Charlie Hebdo murders that I’m not sure my earlier post made clear, but a look at the response by […]
Read More AND JUST LIKE THAT, WE ALL BECAME LESS FREE – THE CHARLIE HEBDO CHAPTERWhile the world may be aware of the millions of marchers in France who expressed support for the Charlie Hebdo employees who were murdered by terrorists for exercising their freedom of the press, I thought a roundup of other recent events—for or against freedom—would be appropriate. 2,000 people, including women and children, were massacred by […]
Read More THIS (PAST) WEEK IN FREEDOMANDY BEY PAGES FROM AN IMAGINARY LIFE HIGH NOTE 2014 Andy Bey has a high position on my shortlist of favorite living Jazz vocalists, even though his discography is disappointingly thin. He also appears to be full of surprises like D’Angelo when his record company released Pages from an Imaginary Life late last year. The […]
Read More AN ALBUM (OR TWO) IN MY HEAD (0060)Take a good look at the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s sketch I posted since it’s supposed to be a person of interest connected with the bombing near the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People’s Colorado Springs office. Assumimg the authorities are serious about finding this individual—and my quick glance at the sketch makes […]
Read More FBI SKETCH OF SUSPECTED NAACP BOMBER RELEASEDI support the right to Free Speech. Hell, I support the Ku Klux Klan’s right to say stupid stuff just as much as I support my right to call them stupid. Allow me to go one step further—I even support racists posting ridiculous comments on my blog, even though no legal provisions exist for me […]
Read More AM I CHARLIE HEBDO? IT DEPENDS.On January 15, the world approaches what could be a decisive round of negotiations in Geneva regarding Iran’s nuclear program. Since Iran is willing to talk with the P5+1 in order to free itself from the US-imposed economic sanctions, Iran President Hassan Rouhani obviously needs to return home after the talks with fewer sanctions against its oil and […]
Read More THE ROUHANI NO ONE TALKS ABOUTI had the good fortune of participating in Tanya Free & Friends’ recent year-end broadcast, where I offered a thought which may unsettle some of you self-labeled Black Progressives: Rev. Al Sharpton would be dead by now if he were Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Looking back, I should have covered that concept with greater […]
Read More IF AL SHARPTON WERE MLK
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