New Book Says Barry Used ‘Roids. Duh!

San Francisco Chronicle reports have penned a new book in which they allege that Bonds used a vast array of steroids and other performing enhancing drugs. The book is entitled “Game of Shadows” and an excerpt may be found in the March 13th issue of Sports Illustrated.
But we knew this, right? It’s hard to [...]

Madea ‘Got a Dress On (Point and Counterpoint)

Rich and I were talking the other day about Tyler Perry’s “Madea” movies. I asserted that the movies were funny, and basically good clean entertainment. Rich felt differently-that the Madea movies are minstrelsy and part of a broader trend toward putting black male actors in dresses. Check the Point-Counterpoint:
TheStateOf . . . Clean, black movies. [...]

Growing Up on a Tightrope: Raising Black Boys

“(LA Times) Nationally, black teenage boys are five times as likely as white teen boys to be killed. In Los Angeles County, homicide accounts for two of every three deaths among young black men, compared with one in seven for whites, two in five for Latinos, and one in four for Asian Americans.”
“For middle- [...]