Was anyone really shocked about Radio Shack closing over 1,000 stores? In a move that shocked no one, the electronics retailer recently announced a downsizing of almost 20% of their retail stores. Radio Shack was like that family member who after going down the wrong path for years finally tells you they’ve decided to stop […]
I know God is busy but He seems to be answering many of our Fast Food prayers lately. If you’re a big fan of breakfast, (and who isn’t?) you’ve probably heard that Taco Bell will start selling breakfast burritos and waffle tacos and McDonald’s is extending its breakfast hours until 11. That’s a good start […]
If Kevin Hart’s character from the new movie “About Last Night” would have used phone technology to help him get more uh…”dates” he would have most likely used the very popular Tinder app. And let’s just say if your mate has the app on his or her phone, exclusivity isn’t high on his or her […]
Lists hurt. They shouldn’t and they didn’t use to. There was a time when lists were all about fun things. The Best Place to get a Snow Cone, the Top 100 baby names…even the Fattest Cities list inadvertently paid homage to places you’d find the best chicken friend steak, triple-decker pizza and bacon-wrapped glaze doughnuts. […]
Can you remember life without Facebook? Of course you can. If you’re an adult, you’ve lived many years without the online social networking service and if you’re African American, there’s a good chance Facebook has only been part of your life for five years or so. According to stats taken a couple of years ago, […]
Put five working moms no matter what their age, race, income or religion together, ask them what they feel most guilty about and I can almost guarantee you it will be about not having more time to devote to their children. In reality, it’s all relative (pardon the pun). There’s no guidebook, no quantitative formula, […]
The battle of the sexes is alive and well. I was recently involved in a conversation with men and women about an NFL player accused of harassing his girlfriend into getting an abortion. Most of the men felt that the woman was a gold digger who purposely got pregnant to get Arian Foster’s dough. The […]
He’s such an easy target. Kanye West might as well have a sign on his back that says “provoke me and get paid.” It can’t be easy being him. I’m not defending his actions, but every one knows he’s a young, rich, hot-headed male that TMZ and the tabloids love to hate. The latest, as […]
Whether you’re a “Saturday Night Live” fan or you haven’t tuned in since Eddie Murphy left, you couldn’t have escaped hearing all the rumblings about the lack of diversity in this season’s cast. Most upsetting was the fact that out of six new cast members hired in 2013, not one of them was a black […]
First of all, let me apologize to any one north of Arkansas who routinely lives, drives, goes to work, school and church in spite of the treacherous ice storms like the one we survived in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. Having had my first driving experience in a St. Louis suburb, gone to college in D.C., […]
Every time I see the kid on the Ikea commercial pedal his toy car into his mom’s new kitchen appliances and cabinets, I’m assured that the copywriters for that spot were childless. It’s just one of many TV ads that could get some unsuspecting 5-year-old banned from my house for good— probably by one of […]
Is it just me or has there been more news than usual about violence and dysfunction within families lately. A state senator from Virginia was stabbed by his son who then killed himself, an Ohio couple will most likely face abandonment charges for leaving their 9-year-old adopted son with welfare officials, teenagers playing the “knock […]