A Few Words For New Leaders

Be interesting.
The leaders of today have become . . . boring. Reagan was pretty darn interesting. Bush I, not so much. Clinton, interesting. Bush II, not so much. Kerry, zzzzzz. Frist, a doctor who will put you to sleep. And who is the top Democratic congressional leader again? When Bush II was running [...]

Damon Wayans Tries to Copyright the N-Word

By Stanley Crouch“One of the most repulsively fascinating facts about contemporary black popular culture is how it continues to reach fresh lows. It finds new ways of leaping all fences that would bar it from falling into a bottomless pit of tastelessness. All of the insults and burdens of minstrelsy have been bested by black [...]

Birmingham Paper Discovers Its History in Closet

A photo intern with the Birmingham News stumbled on a box of old negatives in an equipment closet in November 2004. The negatives were marked “Keep. Do not sell.” The negatives were an unpublished photographic journey of the paper’s coverage of the civil rights era in Birmingham. They were featured in a special section of [...]

"It’s Hard Out Here For a Pimp" (N-ggas and Flies, Part II)

“If not I’ll wait, because the future of the world depends onTherefore, if not the child we raise gon’ have that n-gga syndromeOr will it know to be the hard regardless of the skintoneI really feel that if we tune it, it just might get picked onOr will it give a f-ck [...]