THIS is hip-hop

by | May 21, 2007 | Culture, Hip-hop, Pop Culture, Sports | 6 comments

[kml_flashembed movie=”http://youtube.com/v/pPmfbhVGbIQ” width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /] I got this from Both Teams Played Hard (the name of the website taken from an infamous Rasheed Wallace quote). They...

Stop Snitching

by | May 20, 2007 | Politics | 3 comments

This year’s top 25 censored stories of 2007 includes this interesting tidbit: Special Counsel Scott Bloch, appointed by President Bush in 2004, is overseeing the virtual elimination of federal whistleblower rights in the U.S. government. The U.S. Office of...

Infidelity and relationships in Black

by | May 19, 2007 | Black Family | 2 comments

I remember when we were younger and in college. If you wanted to have an event that was guaranteed a crowd but without a DJ? You had a “male-female relationship” forum. We’ve got something very similar going on now in black blogs. Over at Jack and...

Spence on the NPR Barbershop

by | May 16, 2007 | NPR, The Mass Media | 6 comments

Thanks to my man Jimi, I got put down with Michele Martin’s new show. I’ve done the political roundtable thing before, to what I thought were horrible results. I can play the political analyst, but what I really do when I’m on the mic…is talk...

Why I don't eat dinner with my family

by | May 16, 2007 | Black Family | 3 comments

My kids asked me the other day to eat dinner with them. I begged off. “No thanks.” I said. It isn’t like I don’t love my kids. I do. But what I’m looking for come dinner time, is decompression. And it’s difficult to get...