“The delusion of power also appears to provide an escape for middle-class Negroes from the world of reality which pierces through the world of make-believe of the black bourgeoisie. The positions of power which they occupy in the Negro world often enable them to act autocratically towards other Ne...

The most spiritually compelling moment of the Screen Actors Guild Awards came when the Guild paid tribute to those who'd lost their lives since the last gathering. Susan Sarandon shared a very nice tribute to the actors who've passed, and......

So who had the Cardinals vs. the Eagles in the NFC title game in their preseason picks? I'm going to need to see some proof. In the past two weekends, I've seen at least parts of all eight games, which is more football than I watched the previous 18 weeks combined. Thanks to the magic of the DVR, I ...

The whole nation has Obama fever, as the Senator from Illinois plans to take the oath on Tuesday January 20 and become our nation’s first black president. Everything from key chains, candies and clothing has the Obama O logo slapped on it, even Spider Man is getting into the act. The latest is...

For those of you who haven’t heard yet, Ricardo Montalban, the coolest Mexican cat to ever don a white suit in the tropics, passed away today in Los Angeles at the ripe old age of 88. And while he was a pioneering champion of Latino’s everywhere…onstage, onscreen and even behind-th...

For a time, I was pretty obsessed with the song "Baby It's Cold Outside"; I blame the French. Actually, I blame my friend Deborah who lives in France. She turned me onto the Ricardo Montalban and Esther Williams version of the song that appeared in the 1949 film Neptune's Daughter. Subsequently, I l...