Madness & Reality

How many of you have held of the tale about the Pied-Piper of Hamelin? Personally, I only heard of him watching old cartoons. What I remember is that the Pied-Piper is some white dude in tights prancing around playing his flute. The flute had an attractive power of drawing mice in a trance to the musician. Again, I learned...

The New York Times editorial board Wednesday (July 19) praised Gov. John Bel Edwards and the Louisiana Legislature's decision to pass new laws to reduce its prison population and save the state money. "It's encouraging that in a state with a heavily Republican Legislature and a new Democratic governor, John Bel Edwards, who made the package central to his candidacy, the changes...

Mike Vick, for better or worse, is a vindicated man. His rise and fall was so meteoric that many of my people (black people) was thrown off. All of it over dog fighting. Rather than wallow in his guilt, Vick decided to serve his time, get back into the league, and perform. And that is what he did until he...

We forget that it was Oprah Winfrey who handed black pop culture’s one-dimensional image of black men. It was 2004 and social media as we know it didn’t exist. The black blogosphere was still in its gestational phases, and online dating for black folks was relegated to hook ups on Black Planet websites and college students who discovered the joys...

Politics is defined as the activities associated with the governance of a country or other area, especially the debate or conflict among individuals or parties having or hoping to achieve power. And we all know that politics have shown their way throughout the history of hip hop music. When Public Enemy said “Fight The Power”, you know that they...

Don't look now, but apparently, police officers in Minneapolis, Minnesota are running out of black people to shoot and kill. I suppose a $48,000 payout to the officer who was recently acquitted for killing Philando Castile hasn't slowed things down. An unarmed white woman, Justine Damond, was shot and killed by a cop in Minneapolis who was responding to her 911...

FREEHOLD -- The 11-year-old Keansburg girl found murdered Thursday was stabbed to death, prosecutors said Friday. Andreas Erazo, 18, was arrested on murder and weapon charges Friday appeared in Superior Court Friday afternoon and was ordered to remain in jail. AbbieGail "Abbie" Smith's body was found Thursday in a rear area of the Hancock Arms apartments,… .repubhubembed{display:none;}

Sammy Sosa did an interview on ESPNDeportes to talk about the MLB's Home Run Derby. Unfortunately, the retired slugger left many scratching their heads. I don't know what's going on with Sammy Sosa, but I know, as the great Keith Sweat would say, "something something, something something, just ain't right." Some say it's a manifestation of self-hate. Sammy, like many black people...

The W.H. is functioning perfectly, focused on HealthCare, Tax Cuts/Reform & many other things. I have very little time for watching T.V. - Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 12, 2017 Donnie Dingbat tweeted that out this morning, earning him more scorn and ridicule as a bullshit artist, non pareil. His claims were shot down by White… .repubhubembed{display:none;}

(Reuters Health) - African-American and white women who regularly chemically straightened their hair or dyed it dark brown or black had an elevated risk of breast cancer, recent research suggests. “I would be concerned about darker hair dye and hair straighteners,” epidemiologist Tamarra James-Todd said after reviewing the report in Carcinogenesis. “We should really think about using things in moderation...

Embed from Getty Images   The phrase "less is more" has become omnipresent in health care. Whether it's inserting too many artery-opening stents into people with angina, performing too many surgeries for back pain, ordering too many CT scans for headaches, or prescribing too many narcotics for people with chronic pain, overuse is rampant in our medical system. As the Senate… .repubhubembed{display:none;}

Website YouCaring -- which describes itself as a company fostering "compassionate crowdfunding" -- has sent a loud and clear message to law enforcement officers across the country: it finds pro-police causes to be too "controversial" to host. On Sunday the crowdfunding site removed donation pages set up by Donna Grodner, a lawyer who is suing Black… .repubhubembed{display:none;}

Dr. Umar Johnson is the self-appointed "Prince of Pan-Africanism". Yes, he actually refers to himself as such. He also calls himself a "scholar," but sadly, there's nothing scholarly about him. He talks about the work he's doing in the black community, but yet, his scholarly work is non-existent. He wants to be somebody in the pantheon of African-centered intellectualism....

Nina Turner was recently named the president of the Bernie Sanders inspired spinoff organization, Our Revolution. The former Ohio State Senator and rising star in the Democratic party sat down with The Real News Network to discuss Trump's Election Commission. Headed by Kris Kobach, Turner says that Trump's Voter Commission is essentially a tool for voter intimidation, disenfranchisement, and...

  Not all news has to be bad news.     There are still some good folks out there doing good things. Necessary things..It's up to sites like ours to put it out there and highlight it when we see it. Folks get tired of bad news all the damn time..... Read On, Ohio fried chicken restaurant employs former prisoners to give them a second chance...