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Sometimes, with kids, you just can’t win. You wonder where you went wrong. But then, if you add up all the little teaching moments, you just might realize that you’re…

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The Academy Awards Diversity Problem, And Why Old White Men Don’t Have To Get It

The Academy Awards Diversity Problem Is Real If you’re an older, wealthy, accomplished white man born in America and raised with the privilege that only white people can experience, then…

The Trouble WIth Macklemore White Privilege II

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The Trouble With Macklemore “White Privilege II”

The Trouble With Macklemore: How “White Privilege II” Practices Appropriation and Is Insulting to the Art Form of Hip-Hop The internet can be both a gift, and a curse. …

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NEW YEAR, NEW YOU!!! The Blueprint on How to Make The New Year Change

This time of the year as we all know it seems to be when people are putting up the typical “new year new me” or “I’m not taking this drama…

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Top Ten Worst Hip-Hop Songs of 2015

It’s that time again where I list the top ten worst Hip-Hop songs of 2015 that I’ve heard. My lists have caused a lot of hate and debate because the…

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Black History Shaped the World

Black History is World History As the month of February is under way, it must not slam the door on the appreciation of Black History. For throughout the year, we…

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Understanding The Anger and the Sadness About the Tamir Rice Decision

I want to express that all of this is written in grief and bereavement. It is written with hands dampened with tears, sliding across a wet keyboard in between pauses…

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Steve Harvey Miss Universe Incident Further Shows Racial Disparity Between Black and White America

I remember almost two years ago, we were having a fun time at the expense of John Travolta. After the Steve Harvey Miss Universe incident it seems it is his turn.…

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Breaking News – No Charges For Sandra Bland Officers

Not to the surprise of many, the Texas grand jury in charge of determining whether cops or other officials should be charged in the Sandra Bland case have determined that there…

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Five Observations From Watching The Wiz Live

Remakes are tricky. Audiences measure them against the original and rarely do they actually top them. There are times, though when remakes come very close. The Wiz Live is one…

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Explaining The Afroman Saga – The Case of “The Lemon Pound Cake”

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The Academy Awards Diversity Problem, And Why Old White Men Don’t Have To Get It

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NEW YEAR, NEW YOU!!! The Blueprint on How to Make The New Year Change

Top Ten Worst Hip-Hop Songs of 2015

Black History Shaped the World

Understanding The Anger and the Sadness About the Tamir Rice Decision

Steve Harvey Miss Universe Incident Further Shows Racial Disparity Between Black and White America

Breaking News – No Charges For Sandra Bland Officers

Parle Mag

Five Observations From Watching The Wiz Live

10 Facts About Samir Taleb, Author of ‘Hell Is Other People’

Understanding the Lasting Impact of Spinal Cord Injuries on Health and Independence

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Explaining The Afroman Saga – The Case of “The Lemon Pound Cake”

Round By Round Break Down of the Tank vs Tyrese Verzuz

7 Lessons We Learned From The Book, ‘Hell Is Other People’

10 Facts About Samir Taleb, Author of ‘Hell Is Other People’

Understanding the Lasting Impact of Spinal Cord Injuries on Health and Independence