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TEDx Talks: Why They Speak to Black Folks and Why You Should Listen
By now, you should be up on TEDx talks, which are chats with global thought leaders with focused messages that are just short of lectures but quite a bit more than monologues as well. They are...
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My Brother’s Keeper: The First Six Months
In February, President Barack Obama announced an initiative to respond to the economic, employment, and educational disparities that young men of color face as they enter their adult lives. He said...
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Michael Brown: Is Due Process Too Much To Ask?
People in a crowd hold signs and listen to speakers at a demonstration on Thursday, Aug. 14, 2014, in Decatur, Georgia, in the town square. The demonstration of more than 200 people was held in...
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Johnny Law and You: 10 Simple Rules for Police Encounters
When I was a kid, “The Talk” meant something different. It meant a father telling his son or a mother telling a daughter about the birds and the bees, a necessary education that all parents should give...
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Check These Tweets From The Brothersphere…
In light of what’s been going on this summer with Black men’s survival being threatened in this country and our need for a voice in cyberspace, I think it’s time for another edition of our popular...
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HBCUs Cut From NCAA Postseason Over Academics Cry Foul. They’re Right
Alabama State University players hold their helments up prior to the start of an NCAA college football game against Prarie View A&M in Montgomery, Ala., Saturday, Oct. 12, 2013. (AP Photo/Jay...
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Pittsburgh Teen Becomes One-Man Force to Bring Environmental Awareness to...
Growing up, AmaRece Davis (pictured) didn’t have the most-positive outlook. In fact, it was the same outlook as most of the young men in Homewood, one of the most economically depressed, crime-ridden...
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Does Abusive Behavior Among Athletes Start in High School?
There’s no question that winding up in the NFL is a career destination that many young Black men look at as preferable. Football, for so many young brothers, is a culture, not just a sport. You need...
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Black Males in America: Too Serious A Topic For Lighthearted Television
Had to dig deep on this one. While giving thought to this year so far, I thought about the number of controversies surrounding Black men, ranging from the police shooting of Mike Brown in Ferguson,...
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Ebola Death Outlines Issues Between Black Men and Public Health System
A few years ago, I was at a community health festival in Brownsville, a high-crime, very poor area of Brooklyn that is among the worst statistically in every category in New York City. After a while,...
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Brothers’‘Fix My Life': No Fix, But Path To Healing
Several years ago, I saw Iyanla Vanzant come to speak to an audience in Brooklyn and she mesmerized the mostly African-American female crowd. She spoke of how women could heal themselves by owning...
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When Black Men Cannot Vote
Either I’m three days late or two years early on this one. Whichever way you look at it, we’ve got a problem when it comes to a segment of the electorate being unable to vote, their interests thus...
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The Eloquence of Shouting “Burn This B*tch Down!”
Louis Head reacts to the grand jury decision involving his stepson Michael Brown’s slaying in Ferguson, Mo. (NewsOne) If you haven’t seen it, there’s a video circulating of Mike Brown’s stepfather,...
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Webinars For Those Who Mentor And Teach African American Male Youth
As a mentor of African-American male youth in the community, one of the things I’m constantly looking for is information and resources. But whether you’re a coach, counselor, part-time teacher or all...
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Ted Gustus, Coaching Legend and His Formula for Transforming a Young Life
Photo courtesy of Ted Gustus When Ted Gustus was a boy, he found his mother dead, lying on the floor of their railroad flat in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant. In the background, Sam Cooke’s “A Change is...
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5 Things You Can Do After The Protests
CHICAGO, IL – DECEMBER 13: Demonstrators stage a sit-in along Michigan Avenue to protest police abuse. The protests was one of many staged nationwide in response to grand juries’ failure to indict...
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The Willie Horton-ization of the Brooklyn Cop Shooter
Let’s have a flashback: In the 1988 presidential race, then-Vice President George H.W. Bush ran an attack ad against Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis, pointing out that he authorized weekend passes...
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Top 10 Tweets from the Brothersphere—New for 2015
It’s 2015 and we’ve started a New Year after enduring a very, very rough one for black people. We’ve had to hit the streets in a way that we haven’t since the Civil Rights years and somehow America is...
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How Marshawn Lynch Says So Much By Barely Saying Anything
As a journalist, one thing I hate is when a source won’t answer my questions. It’s frustrating, it stops me from getting my work done, and it makes me feel as though the subject of my interviews is...
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Free Community College: The Best Idea Since the GI Bill
One summer about a million years ago, when I was 18, I went to community college to take some classes to transfer back to the university I was attending. At the time, I didn’t think much about the...
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As Holder Hails “My Brother’s Keeper, ” It’s Time To Have Real Conversations
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder (foreground) speaks during a Building Community Trust roundtable meeting on February 5, 2015 in Oakland, California. Among those shown behind him is Rep. Barbara Lee...
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Malcolm X 50 Years Later: It’s Hard Not to Wonder
Malcolm X, Jan. 1, 1960 When you take a trip to the far north part of Manhattan and visit what had once been the Audobon Ballroom — now redesigned and renamed the Malcolm X and Betty Shabazz Memorial...
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Why Chicago’s Mayoral Election Makes A Difference To The Rest of Us
State Street, Chicago, IL (photo by Vito Palmisano) Every so often we get a local election that has a huge impact on the outlook and direction of Black America. There are cities that we focus on that...
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Don’t Act Brand New! “Coon Songs” Have A Long History In This Country
American actress and singer Judy Garland (1922 – 1969) in blackface as Judy Bellaire in ‘Everybody Sing’, 1938. (Photo by Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images) / Getty What a week! Everybody digs...
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34 Kids By 17 Women & Now A Reality Show: Why It Might Work
It’s no surprise that there would be backlash and outrage over the OWN network giving Jay Williams, the Atlanta man with 34 kids by 17 different women who was featured on Iyanla Vanzant’s Fix My Life...
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Something’s Still Missing From Indiana’s Revised “Religious Freedom” Act
Source: (Photo by Aaron P. Bernstein/Getty Images) Indiana’s governor Mike Pence and state legislators did the right thing by amending the controversial Religious Freedom Restoration Act. The bill,...
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Walter Scott Killing: The Video Seems Like Enough, But Is It?
(Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images) By now we’ve heard lawyers, activists, analysts, journalists, and a list of lay people say it over and over — the video in the Walter Scott police shooting made the...
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Tweets From The Brothersphere: Spring 2015 by Madison J. Gray
Source: Oli Scarff / Getty There’s been a lot going on in blackness this year, particularly in the constantly evolving universe known as Black Twitter. We’ve still got a Black president in the States,...
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In Baltimore, The Revolution Was Not Televised, But It Was Effective
(Photo by Samuel Corum/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) / Getty Green Acres, The Beverly Hillbillies and Hooterville Junction Will no longer be so damned relevant And women will not care if Dick finally...
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Bail Equals Inequality: The Kalief Browder Case & Why Freedom Costs Money
Source: JEFF HAYNES / Getty For the three years Kalief Browder sat in New York’s Rikers Island, he probably wondered what the difference would have been if his family could have posted the $3,000 bail...
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