Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Youth Deserve Our Support of the Arts

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I’m thankful for being the son of artistic parents. My pops introduced me to sketching at a young age. I can’t remember not drawing. It sa...
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Monday, November 28, 2011

Compassion Ministries & Calvary United Methodist Church presents a Neighborhood Christmas

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The work of being the Church has become amazingly difficult. I’m reminded of the comments made by J. Randall Nichols on my first day of stu...
Friday, November 18, 2011

Is Big Brother Keeping House at Bank of America?

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The agency has a whopping budget of $41 Billion for fiscal year 2012 and employees 230,000 people across the country. The Department of Home...
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Wednesday, November 16, 2011

A Call to Occupy the Church

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My phone, inbox on Facebook and email has been buzzing about the concept I placed on my Facebook wall-Occupy the Church. It’s intriguing tha...
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Monday, November 14, 2011

My Own Story of Abuse

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“As Simon rubbed the ugly black thing, the family friend moaned,” harder boy, rub it harder. Faster, um, ah, um, yeh, that’s right. Simon d...
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Friday, November 11, 2011

Beyond the Colors of Hate

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It’s a story that tugs at that tender spot of most who hear about it. Something magical happened at Occupy Atlanta. Something bigger than t...
Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Election is instructive on the state of Durham's political future

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There were no surprises coming from yesterday’s election. As expected, Mayor Bill Bell pounded challenger Sylvester Williams with 81.9 perc...
Monday, November 7, 2011

OMG: He Called Me a House Nigger

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“That’s because you’re a house Nigger,” a distraught poll worker yelled at me for refusing to vote for his candidate. I had declined to tak...
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Friday, November 4, 2011

Occupy Duke Energy

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“The mother of revolution and crime is poverty,” Aristotle wrote in 350 BCE. I recently revisited his reflections related to the causes of ...
Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Lopez: I was there to help the children

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“I don’t have a gang, I have a team,” Jose Lopez, Durham’s Police Chief, corrected me during a recent phone conversation. He was correct to...
Monday, October 31, 2011

Shootings on Driver and Spruce St Force a Conversation About the Elephant in the Room

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Friday, October 28, 2011

Bull City Coworking: A Place to Work Where the Coffee is Free

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I spent over a grand on coffee last year. What a bargain. I can feel the eyes rolling with that last statement. How does one justify spendi...
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Thursday, October 27, 2011

Siemans Competition Gives Durham Reason to Celebrate

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The full page ad on page 6A of Thursday’s USA Today caught my attention. “Nerd, Know-it-all, Poindexter, Bookworm, Boss, Professor, Doctor,...
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Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Catching Nayla's Tears

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“Durham is known for being the place you go if you wanna kill a black man and get away with it,” Nayla Rudder told me after her boyfriend wa...
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Monday, October 24, 2011

The Occupy Movement Spreads to Durham

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Did you know there is an Occupy Durham movement? Virtually every city in America is being occupied. It started on Wall Street with a call f...
Friday, October 21, 2011

Boney James Concert to Raise Funds for YO: Durham

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A brother has to do what it takes to get a good woman’s attention. It was the week before Christmas. It had been month’s since we first me...
Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Herman Cain: The Anti-Obama

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Okay, enough is enough. It’s time for us to pull the hood off of Herman Cain inflated head. As Cain crosses the country to promote his rec...