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The Year that was...2022

An essay to my descendants about the January 6th Riots

2022 HBCU Football Finale

Ignorance isn't Bliss

Grateful for Time...

Imagining an alternate Black American history

The Week in Review

Kanye: The fusion of self-hate and anti-Semitic rhetoric

Is Jackson State Football Coach Deion Sanders heading to Colorado?

Just say "No" to Trump 2.0

Tis the Season to Give Thanks!

Jim Crow 2.0: Gerrymandering and "Election Integrity" Goon Squads

Takeoff's life was taken far too soon...

Cancelling Kanye is easy, cancelling systemic white supremacy is much harder

Desantis vs. Crist: A study in contrasts

Coach "Prime" and the renaissance of HBCU Football

Warnock vs. Walker post-debate analysis

Sen. Raphael Warnock and Herschel Walker's debate goes down tonight!

The earnest importance of "race" in the Florida and Georgia U.S. Senate races

To Hell with James Madison and his flute!

Racists have always hated Black and Brown immigrants

Ron "DeRacist" and his deplorably dumb decision on immigration

The power of historical fiction in popular media

The costs and benefits of a 2022 American Railways Strike

Pondering why some folks are giving Great Britain's brutal colonial past a pass?

Gov. Ron Desantis's racist "Election Integrity" crusade

Why college football players deserve to get "paid in full"

The FAMU football team "Strikes" Back!

When the Black church alone can't fix anxiety, depression, and suicide...

The GOP is still the "Party of Trump"

When adults literally kill the game for kids

Teachers must resist GOP academic tyranny

The Color of Justice in America

Why Emmett Till's last living killer deserves to be locked up!

The foundation of HBCU Love

Legends lost: Remembering Bill Russell and Nichelle Nichols

Ol' Hobbs's Friday Flashpoints!

The hollow nature of Republican rhetoric

Remembering the Moore's Ford Bridge lynchings

Rape culture β€” and lax Title IX enforcement on college and university campuses

Title IX's 50 year impact on women's sports

U.S. House passes Bill to protect same-sex and interracial marriages

It's past time to rename the Edmund Pettus Bridge in memory of Rep. John Lewis

Sen. Raphael Warnock surges ahead of Herschel Walker in Georgia senate race

Statue of Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune to be formally unveiled today at the U.S. Capitol

Black women breaking barriers in the NFL

Can fmr. New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson bring Brittney Griner home?

Is Gov. Gavin Newsom the Democrat's best hope for the White House in 2024?

Christian racism and misogyny during the Salem Witch Trials

Reminiscing about my favorite 80's era movies

Mass Murder is in America's DNA

Free Brittany Griner--and lock up Emmett Till's lying accuser, Carolyn Bryant Donham!

Why swimming lessons and water safety should matter in the Black community

American Christianity remains politically separate and unequal

How the Federalist Society dismantled Roe vs. Wade

Roe vs. Wade is Reversed

Presumed Innocent!

How I overcame fears of public humiliation during my middle school "daze"

The racial history behind public school funding and church-state separation

Will Donald Trump ever face charges for the January 6th riots?

Fatherhood: A man's calling to fulfill...

When deadbeat dad receipts chase you all around the political room

MAGA=MF's Are Getting Arrested...and convicted!

That Georgia Sen. Raphael Warnock is in a close race with Herschel Walker is no laughing matter

GOP truth is stranger than fiction

Will the real villains ever be held accountable for the January 6th MAGA Riots?

Dr. Martin Luther King and President John F. Kennedy's tense 1963 meeting

The specter of violence on public premises across America πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ

How the Buffalo mass murder exposed systemic racism in urban planning

Yes, Black soldiers fought on the beaches of Normandy on D-Day

Life in the "First World" ain't been no crystal stair

Curing America's sick fascination with guns

America: Choosing violence since 1619

Memorial Day: Remembering Cpt. Donald C. Woodruff

Mourning in America...

It's time to repeal and replace the Second Amendment

The painful legacy of excluding Blacks and women from jury service

When racists invade the private schoolhouse and public school boards

Happy Birthday, Ol' Hobbs

Why some college coaches prefer broke and docile athletes

Lessons from Rep. Madison Cawthorn's North Carolina GOP Primary loss

White supremacy: Fueling toxic masculinity since before the Mayflower

Racist domestic terror strikes again...

A few things that I love, like, and dislike in our world...

Yes, Clarence Thomas is a "Hater"

The Desantis Jim Crow 2.0 redistricting map is struck down!

The benefits and burdens of the First Amendment

Mississippi abortion law has no exception for incest

When the pain from mental health issues won't go away

Abortion: America's Apartheid

The case for reparations: 1921's Tulsa Race Massacre

The end of legal abortion in red-state America

How HBCU's fared during the NFL Draft and college selection weekend!

The Rodney King Verdicts--30 years later

Morris Brown College's "Hard Reset"

Remembering those old school nuclear blast drills

The truth about Twitter

Florida Republican's racist redistricting maps

The Desantis-Disney Dilemma

The potent Florida A&M University Rattler brand

Just say "Gay!"

Embracing Black Beauty in a Eurocentric world

Why I missed the Purple Rain Concert in April of 1985

A "Good Friday" Flashpoint

Black coaches matter in the renewed XFL

Brooklyn Terror

Ron Desantis's fatherhood initiative is form over substance

The tragedy of deaths nearby--and far away!

The 2022 HCASC Quiz Bowl Championship

Confirmed!

Race matters in the Warnock vs. Walker Senate race

When the profits of war kill the prophets of peace

Sen. Tim Scott's Faustian pact with the conservative devil

Murdering MLK

Closing arguments on the 2022 Oscar Awards Ceremony

When partisanship creates bad public policy

Commentary on Judge KBJ, judging Smith & Rock, and Hunter Biden's legal jeopardy

Defining Black Masculinity

#OscarsSoBlack--and the slap heard round the world

When Black excellence trumps white mediocrity

Persevere, KBJ, Persevere

Real political analysis in the Age of Censorship

How the "True Blue 1881 Foundation" assists HBCU students in need

Barrier Breakers: From Thurgood Marshall to Ketanji Brown-Jackson

On being sick and tired of European wars of aggression

Critical Race critics object to teaching about Japanese-American internment during World War II

RL Polo's new Morehouse-Spelman collection captures classic era style

Beware the Ides of March

The thin line between natural and man-made military disasters

Banking while Black

The overt racism behind the "Q-word"--Qualifications

Why Florida's next Attorney General should be Aramis Ayala

The Biden administration marks historic funding for HBCU's!

Podcast Alert: Talking about the Breonna Taylor murder on Real Talk w/Andrew Gillum

57 years after Bloody Selma, the fight for equal voting rights continues!

That time when American and Russian forces fought each other after World War I

In search of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness...

Flashback Friday: Putin's 2014 Ukraine and Crimea incursions...

Why mediocre white journalists attack Black Excellence...

Commentary on the State of the Union

The plight of Black and Indian refugees from Ukraine

Biden's first State of the Union address amid Covid, wars, and rumors of war

Vote Alana Mathews (D) for Sacramento District Attorney

As Ukraine burns!

Russia attacks Ukraine!

Why Justice Clarence Thomas should resign from the Supreme Court

Red State attacks on First Amendment Freedoms

Juwan Howard: I ain't mad at 'cha

Dispelling myths about America's HBCU's

Right wing hypocrisy on race, abortion, and foreign policy

On war, sports racism, mid-term elections, and College Jeopardy!

The critical importance of HBCU's

Hobbserving the "Hip-Hop" halftime and the looming war in Ukraine

Doug Williams: First Black quarterback to win the Super Bowl

Imitation of Life 2.0--the football edition

Podcast Alert: America's love for European dictators runs deep...

Riots: The language of the unheard

"Legitimate Political Discourse" is the latest version of white privilege

Saying "No" to deadly "No-Knock" warrants

Juxtaposing Joe Rogan and Whoopi Goldberg

Podcast Alert: The NFL' s Racism Dilemma

Racism: Same story, different day

Whoopi Goldberg, Joe Rogan, and the First Amendment

The illusion of "liberty, and justice for all..."

Bomb threats to HBCU's are the latest from the "Deplorables"

Podcast Alert!

Black Mental Health Matters

The Past as Prologue

The Color of Justice

Podcast Alert: Critiquing Critical Race Theory Critics

Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer is retiring

Imagine a world with no wars, no racism, and no Covid

Growing tension between Russia and Ukraine has the U.S. on alert

Educating racists about their racism

Evil in a nation that pretends to be good

On Trump's civil investigation, and Alabama Coach Nick Saban wades into Federal voting rights waters

The gnawing persistence of white supremacy in America

America's role in assassinating Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

The Friday Flashpoints

On Biden's approval ratings, the Deltas turn 109, and the new Ida B. Wells "Barbie"

On voting rights and the GOP Civil War

The fight for real Voting Rights Reform

The Monday Musings: Evening Edition

Podcast Alert: TCR Dialogue with Law Professor Kristin Henning

Breaking News: Ahmaud Arbery's Killers sentenced to LIFE

Critical Race Reality

Remembering the January 6th MAGA Riots

Podcast Alert

Happy Founders' Day Kappa Alpha Psi

How "white folks gon' think you crazy" is a vestige from Slavery and Jim Crow that needs to go

On Antonio Brown, Covid closures, and minimum wages