The Rest of the Super Bowl

The Commercials: On the whole, they seemed overly violent and mean spirited. You got people slapping each other as a new form of greeting, office workers battling in gladiator style combat, a guy throwing a rock at this buddy during a game of rock, paper, scissors, and Carlos Mencia telling off his boy’s girlfriend [...]

"And Then I Got Into Memphis . . ."

The Mighty Mississippi River welcomed me from below as my plane touched down softly in TheStateOf Tennessee. It is winter here, the sky is gray and the trees are dead–their dark brown branches as naked as the fallow patchwork of farms that dot the countryside. Memphis. This city, for me, has always [...]

DuBois/Washington: Who is the Most Significant African-American of the 20 Century That Is Not Martin Luther King?

Justin: Thurgood Marshall. He was lead trial counsel in Brown v. Board of Ed. and a whole host of other important civil rights cases that chipped away at white supremacy. The victory in Brown, though not so meaningful in terms of immediate integration (and the benefits of integration are debatable), served as a [...]

Tony Dungy Wins!

Tony Dungy won the Super Bowl last night by defeating his friend Luvie Smith and Da Bears. He becomes the third player to win the Super Bowl as a player and a coach. The other two were Tom Flores and Mike Ditka. And importantly, Dungy becomes the first African-American to win the [...]