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More than a Game
Twice I have used this space to convey my enthusiasm for basketball, while also failing miserably in trying to successfully predict the winner(s) of the annual NCAA tournament. My futile efforts to...
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Vicktory
“God gave me a second chance, I think you should too.” -Michael Vick (Interview on ESPN Radio’s Mike and Mike in the Morning) Recently I used this space to discuss how sports, “like other modes of...
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Up From Slavery
“[W]hen we get a little farther away from the conflict, some brave and truth-loving man, with all the facts before him . . .will gather from here and there the scattered fragments, my small...
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Standard Inequality
“[I]t remains to be seen, no matter how deep this thing goes, whether the soul of Atlanta has really been stirred, whether or not Atlanta will recognize that it is facing a genuine crisis of...
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2Pacalypse Now
Tupac Amaru Shakur Editor’s Note: This article appears in the July 2011 Issue of Hip-Hop Stardom 101 “The tragedy of Tupac is that his untimely passing is representative of too many young black men in...
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A Long Way to Go (Ctd.)
Almost a year ago, I wrote about the controversy circling Bishop Eddie L. Long concerning the emergence of four civil suits, filed in Dekalb County, alleging that the bishop, “through manipulation,...
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Lie Down with (Nittany) Lions
Editor’s Note: The post below details the harrowing allegations circling former Penn State defensive football coach Jerry Sandusky. It includes unsettling details regarding the allegations, and may...
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You’re Nobody, ’til Somebody Kills You
“If I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon.” -President Obama President Barack Obama answers a reporter’s question about the death of Trayvon Martin, Friday, March 23, 2012, in the Rose Garden of the...
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Probable Cause
Editor’s Note: The Trayvon Martin incident has sparked intense national debates regarding the association of African American men and violence, gun violence more generally, racial profiling, etc....
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30 for 30
“The glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of old men is the gray head.” -Proverbs 20:29 On this day three weeks ago, I turned thirty. Though I have had plenty of opportunity to...
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Sho Baraka Talented Tenth Interview
In the fall of 1903, William Edward Burghardt Du Bois famously penned an article entitled “The Talented Tenth” for the Negro Problem: A Series of Articles by Representative Negroes of To-day. In it,...
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