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Between the Lines: Los Angeles Unified School District Is Still Waiting For...
*The nation’s second largest (and least performing) school district, Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), was put through the paces this week when its superintendent, John Deasy, put the...
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Between the Lines: 50 Years Ago and the Day That Changed the Course of History
President John F. Kennedy *This week, fifty years ago, the world changed. November 22, 1963, is a day that should be marked for eternal infamy in American history. Other than the assassination of...
View ArticleBetween the Lines: The Resolve of Nelson Mandela
*Sitting in the middle of the night, watching the world pay tribute to a man whose very purpose was to free his people from under an oppressive regime of apartheid—I was reminded of the power of...
View ArticleBetween the Lines: Why People Watch (And Follow) Fools
*The world is watching while a promoter vacillates back and forth as to whether a “celebrity fight,” between Trayvon Martin murderer, George Zimmerman, and rapper DMX, will take place. While it is...
View ArticleBetween the Lines: In Defense of Arsenio Hall: Originator of Late Night ‘Pop...
*I usually write a black history month column in March—largely because I don’t like people telling me when I, or others, should celebrate my history. I decided to write the piece early this year,...
View ArticleBetween the Lines: How ’12 Years A Slave’ Won Best Picture: Cruel Reality...
*Excuse me if I don’t join the rest of y’all in celebrating this year’s Best Picture Oscar movie, “12 years A Slave.” I’m already on record as this being a continuum of subservience movies that is...
View ArticleBetween the Lines: Report on Increasing Black Student Class Exclusions is...
*Last week, a new report offered a renewed look at a persistent problem in how public education is failing our children. Disproportionately excluding black children from the classroom, through...
View ArticleThe Continuing Sterling Saga: Popular Blackness and the Return of Negrophobia
*Watching this Donald Sterling/V. Stiviano episode play out in public is as interesting a study in race politics as we’ve witnessed in sometime. While we try to act like things have returned to normal,...
View ArticleBetween the Lines: The Con Is Up On Protest Pretense
I, first, want to say, that I am enjoying my summer vacation, and my two month break from writing weekly columns (after 23 consecutive years), while I take time to complete two documentaries and write...
View ArticleThe Rice Elevator Video: So America Now Wants to Have A Conversation About...
*The insensitive airing of the elevator video in the Ray Rice domestic violence incident, that occurred last February, is just another in expose` gossip journalism that has deep and meaningful...
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