Commentary

Now if you’ve ever been to Ohio, particularly if you’ve ever been to OSU, you know that there are few things more important than football. Football players were practically Gods at OSU, especially if the team had vanquished the hated University of Michigan Wolverines that year. They had absolute power.

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Michael Vick has done everything humanly possible to atone for his dog torturing past. He was tried, convicted and jailed. He accepted full responsibility for his actions. He’s virtually prostrated himself before every animal rights group around to apologize for his actions.

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“You don’t beat somebody with nobody.” That familiar old maxim expresses a very modern political truth. Well-known candidates tend to win elections running against unknown candidates. The well-known candidate may be unpopular, may be flawed or even worse. But having high name identification…

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Now, everyone who knows me knows that I’m a big First Amendment person. But nothing is going to get me out of my chair and off to her laptop faster than calling a 9-year-old kid a c**t. I don’t care if you were exercising your First Amendment right. I’ve got to call Shenanigans! on you.

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I had to think long and hard about taking on Beyoncé’s HBO Documentary “Life Is But A Dream”, as a topic for a column. Since she’s the only Black woman not named Kerry Washington that anyone is talking about in Pop Culture these days, I couldn’t just ignore it.

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The School District of Philadelphia faces major challenges as both a financial and an educational endeavor. For the past 15 years the School District has spent beyond its means. The “brand name” of Philadelphia public schools has been tarnished, as evidence by the flood of students…

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The murder of 15 year old honor student Hadiya Pendleton on Chicago’s South Side drew national attention because she performed at President Obama’s inauguration. Her murder defied the well-worn and infuriating pattern that when a black is gunned down…

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More than a month after the shooting deaths of 20 first-graders and six adults in a school in Newtown, Connecticut, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed into law the most comprehensive gun legislation in the nation.

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The heartrending massacre of 20, 6 and 7-year-old children and six educators in Newtown, Conn. has galvanized public attention once again after a mass shooting. But the killing of children by gun violence is not new. It has been a relentlessly unreported and under-reported plague…

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I suddenly find myself concerned about my blackness. It had never occurred to me to worry about it before. Then came the incident last month on ESPN’s “First Take” program that initially got commentator Rob Parker suspended and then, last week, fired outright.

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