One of the worst of the lasting psychological effects of slavery is the local mind paralysis that has in many ways handicapped our evolution as a people. It is well know that during the days of slavery and the confines of the plantation that it was very much imposed upon the minds and hearts of slaves the dangers of [...] More

The Messiah, Might even return through Her……   That verse off the 1st track on Common’s "Be" album keeps ringin in my head for the past few weeks like crazy. I can’t get it out of my head. I don’t think I’m suposed to get it out of my head. I’ve been thinking, how probably for the [...] More

With the news of a coming child and the daily realization that Fatherhood is upon me, I moment by moment feel both an unimaginable excitement about Fatherhood and the child that has yet to come and also a subtle yet real fear or awe about the emmense magnitude of what is upon me in the [...] More

700 Billion Dollars, thats the amount that the African American community which makes up only 13% of the U.S. spends as consumers on a yearly basis. The amount that African Americans spend as consumers is actually larger than the budgets of some small countries. And somebody please tell me what we have to show for [...] More

An excerpt from 1stBorn about his life long seasonal commitment to Fried Chicken.. More

This is one of the phrases at the end of the song "Free". And, I feel it so deep in my soul. Every day I see the situation that we're in across the world. I mean, not just us of African descent, but all of us of human descent. So many of us(all of us) are [...] More

For real, today I was thinking about all the things in the world that cause people to fear and have insecurities. And I thought about It, and I was like, man, the Scariest thing to me is myself. I mean the weaknesses in me that show them selves to me in such an incredible way, [...] More