My Friendship with Hammerin’ Hank Aaron

I am republishing this article from 27-years ago on my friendship with Hank Aaron around our mutual love for the game of tennis. Things got much better for him post 1994 but I still consider him largely under appreciated for what he meant to baseball, civil rights and black entrepreneurship. Fortunately, I last spoke with […]

Sweet Like Sugar, Black Firewalls, and Blues Killing Blacks

As 2020 draws to an end, the 7,000 healthcare workers who died trying to save others from the coronavirus give me hope. Their Eyes Were Watching God It took the coronavirus to show us the face of God in a cruel and often evil world. This certainly is true in the United States where more than […]

Dancing with Angels Revisited

I am reposting “Dancing with Angels” because I received a “like” today from this posting of nearly a year ago, around the time of death of Rep. Elijah Cummings. If you have already read it I hope you will reread it in light of all that has happened since its publication on December 21, 2019. […]

The Author’s Unedited Segments on White Supremacy & the Police

The sections cut from the article on the infiltration of white supremacists in U.S. police departments: In my column posted yesterday I recommended several reforms. Those reforms were not intended to ignore the larger problem of the infiltration of white-supremacist groups within the U.S. police departments. This article from Truthout explores this problem in more […]

What We Must Do to Stop Men in Blue From Killing Black People

Black Mayors and Protesters hold the key to transforming policing so the senseless deaths of many will not be in vain What has the U.S. become? Yes, our ancestors lived through the most inhumane form of slavery the world has known and many of us baby boomers endured Jim Crow. Others have lived through or heard […]

John Sweet (Like Sugar)

Legendary attorney mentored young officials

Betcha Biden Won’t Pick Sista for VP

The Black community resurrected Biden’s bid for president. What will it get in return?

Tear Stained-Face

Coronavirus makes us think about dying. It should make us think about living. “Day in day out my tear-stained facePressed against the window paneMy eyes search the skies desperately for rain‘Cause rain drops will hide my tear dropsAnd no one will ever know that I’m cryingCrying when I go outside” Wish it Would Rain Performed […]

Joe Biden’s Black Firewall

Understanding why Black People vote for Biden but like Bernie’s Programs requires a deep knowledge of the history, culture and psyche of African Americans. Poll after poll shows that African Americans support programs advanced by Sen. Bernie Sanders like guaranteed public healthcare, free higher education, $15 per hour minimum wage, and criminal justice reform. Then […]

Searching for Billion Dollar “Massa”

Democratic moderates, liberal media fear Bernie & Elizabeth. Believe only white rich man can beat Trump Why do moderate Democrats and mainstream media outlets like CNN and MSNBC keep branding Senators Bernie Sanders’ and Elizabeth Warren’s ideas as dangerous, divisive, and extreme when the majority of Americans support them? They must be watching too much […]