Commentary

Four years after the brutal arrest and death of Sandra Bland, we just now learned that she filmed her arrest. I’ve shared the video, but I want to unpack and explain who hid it, why, and what the video shows us. Because here’s what we know – across the years – too many Black folk […]

This story I have to share with you today is complex, and is changing by the minute. And it starts with a courageous young activist from Tennessee named Justin Jones. Young activists across the country are the lifeblood of change. They fuel every movement for change. Always have. They are the protestors, the demonstrators, the […]

For the first time in the entire history of the State of Minnesota, a police officer was just convicted of murder. Think about that. Minnesota was founded all the way back in 1858, that’s 161 years ago, and the very first officer, out of hundreds of fatal police shootings across the years, the very first […]

Yesterday was a sad and difficult day for the culture, for filmmaking, definitely for all of Los Angeles – but particularly South Central, and certainly a major loss for the friends and family of John Singleton. He passed away yesterday after being taken off of life support. He suffered a stroke last week – and […]

On last Thursday, when school was let out of J.P. Taravella High School, Black families were forced to learn a painful lesson that what makes white families feel safe in Coral Springs can actually be a grave danger for Black children. After school was let out, as they often do, hundreds of kids began walking […]

Good Morning Everybody! I have a few important stories to share with you this today so I’ll just jump right in. First and foremost, I need to talk about Congresswoman Ilhan Omar and the outrageous and dangerous attacks she is experiencing from Donald Trump. As you may know, Congresswoman Omar has literally only been in […]

I don’t know about you, but the new Democratic Congress has actually encouraged me. And I say that has someone who has a serious side-eye for the Democratic Party – they habitually overpromise and underdeliver. But I am particularly excited about some of courageous new voices in the House right now. Right away I am […]

I am dedicating this morning to the life and death of Nipsey Hussle, the 33 year old rapper and leader and entrepreneur, that was horribly gunned down and killed on this past Sunday. And I wanna break down why this loss has meant so much to so many people. Nipsey Hussle was your favorite rapper’s […]

Jessie Dean Gipson Simmons was full of optimism when she and her family moved from an apartment in a troubled area of Detroit to a new development in Inkster, Michigan in 1955. With three children in tow, Jessie and her husband settled into a home on Colgate Street in a neighborhood known as “Brick City” […]

I have a few important news stories that I wanna tell you about this morning, so I’ll jump right in. First, I need to introduce our audience to a wonderful brother named Jermaine Anderson who lives outside of New Haven, CT. Jermaine is 43 years old, owns his own home there, works for the Parks […]

I have a few important stories I’d like to cover, so I’ll jump right in. First, I’d like to say a few things about the Mueller report. As you know, former FBI Director Bob Mueller has spent the past two plus years leading a sweeping investigation into the Trump administration that ultimately led to the […]

This morning I have a few important news stories to cover so I’ll jump right in. First, I wanna tell you about a lawsuit that was just filed against Harvard University by our friend Attorney Ben Crump on behalf of the descendants of two enslaved Africans – a middle aged Black man named Renty and […]