Winter Music Break

Enough of politics and deep thinking. Let’s talk music.
What holiday would be complete without listening to the Annual Morehouse-Spelman Christmas concert? (Morehouse College Glee Club pictured.) The link is to an NPR broadcast of the concert. This is a joy to listen to while sitting in your office drafting memos or reviewing documents. [...]

Picture of the Day

Bill Clinton signs the Welfare Reform Bill while black mammies look on in astonishment.

Stanley Crouch: Pryor’s Flawed Legacy

In this tough-written piece, NY Post writer Stanley Crouch asserts that Richard Pryor’s legacy is one of vulgarity and minstrelsy.
“In the dung piles of pimp and gangster rap we hear from slime meisters like Snoop Dogg and 50 Cent, the worst of Pryor’s influence has been turned into an aspect of the new minstrelsy in [...]