What happens when put some young bucks (who may or may not be D-Boys), and a middle age Black man “street vigilante” on a slowly gentrifing North Oakland block? You get a grown man, Patrick McCullough (photo above), who shoots a “rowdy” kid, sixteen-year-old Melvin McHenry. McHenry was allegedly on McCullouh’s lawn with some homies. [...]

You know a book is good when you find yourself walking down the street you reading it. Drama City by George Pelecanos is that sh*t. He also happens to be a writer for The Wire. The blurb on the back of the book sums it perfectly saying that Pelecanos “has the first-rate writer’s ability to [...]

Shout out to Ta-Nehisi Coats on the 2, count ‘em 2 page NY Times article on Negro Filmmakers in Hollywood. It was interesting to learn that Hollywood Execs did not want Terrence Howard to be a Pimp in Hustle and Flow. They questioned why he had to be the lowest of the low-a P-I-M-P. The [...]

Looks like Dov Charney, founder of American Apparel is being sued for sexual harrassment. He might want to shave that mustache before he goes to court. I don’t think the judge would be impressed with the internet prowler look.

The Times was on it this weekend. They had a piece on the growing wealth in Chelsea and its impact on the Brown and Black residents in the really large Fulton Houses. The article is just another example of how the island is turning into millionaire city (don’t steal). People laugh when I say it, [...]

Now I am fully aware of your traditional underground economy, with rap’s/cracks, chop shop’s and bootleg DVD’s, but I had never heard the words banking and the underground economy in the same sentence. From what I have seen of the The Blood Bankers, it appears to be an eye opener. Last night at B&N, I [...]

I know that some of you doubt that such a time has ever existed. I did not even know that this book was being created until I saw the pictures from the book release party. Of course it was instant happiness as I have been fascinated with Oakland before crack…..D.C. before crack……the U.S. before Crack.

Janice Rogers is one dangerous Black woman. She makes Clarence Thomas look like Martin Luther King jr.She is on track to be nominated for THE (capital T) Supremes. Talk about a Brave New World.

Now that Hustle and Flow is about to be released Singleton says he is going to do for Blues what he did for hip hop in his next film starring Justin Timberlake……. So let me get this right. The Blues and Justin Timberlake. How very, er, Elvis Presley of him.