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Mother’s Day is about moms, but it’s also about all the women who played roles in our lives. If you’re Black, especially, chances are your grandmother, your godmother, your aunties…your mama’s special friend…or someone else …had a hand in bringing you up. For me,  it was my Aunt Nettie. I wrote about her and my […]

Ten years ago if I told you during the height of the NBA play-offs the nation had its eye on the Los Angeles team, it most certainly would have been the Lakers. But, no! Not because of anything that’s happened on the court, the Los Angeles Clippers are the most talked about team in the […]

It’s just human nature that extreme measures have to be taken just to make people in power do the right thing. We’ve seen it with civil rights, affirmative action and now, maybe, with college sports. When I first heard the news about college football players at Northwestern University wanting to unionize, I initially thought they […]

Al Roker is in a bad mood and he can’t hide it. He got into a feud with the Mayor of New York over a “Snow Day,” His angry Tweet to Mayor De Blasio criticized him for keeping the schools open during the city’s Nor’easter that resulted in dangerous road conditions and all that comes […]

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All week-long on traditional and social media, in the break rooms at work, on the bus and on the train people will be analyzing the Michael Dunn verdict in the Jordan Davis murder.  CNN  even interviewed George Zimmerman. I don’t want to hear anything from George Zimmerman. In fact, I don’t want to hear anything […]

“Black on black” crime has made it easy for some mainstream media organizations, many Fox News-loving Republicans and sometimes even members of law enforcement, to look at it as a “them” problem. As long as “they” are killing “themselves”,  it’s something Black America needs to figure out. As gang violence continues to escalate in many […]

I’m blessed and honored to have lived in an era when so many great men and women have walked this earth. They are people who have taken risks, and sacrificed everything, sometimes their basic comforts, sometimes their families and sometimes their lives for the greater good.  I don’t know what makes one person upset about […]

On Sunday, every sports show took up time to weigh in on the Jonathan Martin/Richie Incognito scandal that has rocked the NFL and is shining a glaring spotlight on the Miami Dolphins locker room, for now. But you can bet, before long, every NFL locker room in the league will be put on blast because […]

I’m not the biggest reader in the world, but I do love reading biographies and autobiographies about successful people.  I really use them as tools to help me get better. In fact, every time I’m faced with a transition in my career, I re-read my mentor John H. Johnson’s book, “Succeeding Against the Odds.” But […]

Last weekend people were blowing up my phone and email with the news that Grambling’s football players and members of the marching band had refused to compete in Jackson State University’s homecoming game. If you didn’t hear the story (and how could you have missed it?), only 22 players showed up to board the bus […]

Last week our newest TJMS contributor Don Lemon, announced his new 30 day fitness plan. I know right, it’s always the thin ones. He bragged, I mean announced today,  that’s he lost 11 pounds; his goal is 21 pounds in 21 days. Well, I’m actually the master of losing weight.  But like most people, I’m […]

My friend and BlackAmericaWeb.com senior political correspondent Michael H. Cottman says it’s time for a black woman to be named president of the NAACP.  Not only does he want to see it happen, he’s using Change.Org to petition the 104-year-old civil rights organization. “The Great” Michael Cottman, as he is known by Sybil Wilkes, says […]