A man who is widely accepted to be a pretty terrible human being is scheduled to become our next president in 17 days. I won’t make yet another rundown of all of the awful things he has said and done. I’ve done that a dozen times. Pretty much every reputable news outlet in the […]
We now have just 3 days left in 2016 and I wanted to take just a few minutes out to address something that I keep on hearing about 2017. I keep hearing that 2017 is going to be a terrible year. I even hear some people saying it’s going to be “the end of […]
Last night I planned a Christmas message for the show. I was going to tell you to watch less news, love on your family and friends, go see Fences & Hidden Figures, and do some good in the lives of the people around you. Then, late last night, while I was literally […]
The incident occurred recently outside a hotel when two men from the Standing Rock tribe were blocked inside a parking lot as several masked men approached their car.
Good Morning Everybody! I wanna change things up a little bit for us today. As you may know, every single day of the week, I write about injustice and police brutality and racial discrimination for the New York Daily News. As an activist, I’m helping to lead the Injustice Boycott. Every Tuesday and Thursday […]
69 people have been shot & killed by police since Donald Trump was elected President. Yet most of us could not name a single one of those victims because for most of this month, and I understand it, I’m one of you, we’ve been so terrified of what it means that Donald Trump will […]
It has now been two weeks since our country elected Donald Trump as the next President of the United States. I have to admit that 14 days later, it’s still painful to accept that we are going from President Barack Obama to President Donald Trump. In fact, if anything at all is clear, it […]
Early yesterday morning something truly terrible happened. Two police officers in Iowa were shot and killed. Police described each successive shooting as an ambush that each officer never saw coming. Like most officers, these men had adoring families and a network of friends and colleagues who are absolutely devastated by this loss. I hate […]
A huge part of my calling in life is to tell stories of injustice that simply aren’t being told anywhere else. That’s why over the past few weeks I’ve come on here to talk about the young Beaumont Bulls football team or Deborah Danner and Renee Davis – two women struggling with mental illness […]
I wanna share with you my favorite quote in the world, my life quote, 8 words that have guided me, inspired me, grounded me, and shaped me in so many different ways. It’s a quote from Dr. King, you’ve probably heard it before, but sometimes, something happens in your life, an aha moment, a […]
A youth football team from Texas saw their coach fired and their football season canceled for taking a knee during the National Anthem.
The 'Heal Our Communities' forum is a scholarship awareness reception aimed at bridging the educational gap between advantaged and disadvantaged students.
