I wanna take a few minutes this morning to sing the praises of basketball dad, Lavar Ball. In the small off-chance that you’ve never heard of Lavar, he is the father of Lonzo Ball, who was a college basketball star at UCLA and the #2 pick in the NBA draft for the Los Angeles Lakers. […]
On most mornings I speak to you about some type of injustice going on in our world – and Lord knows we have an endless number of cases I could pull from, but this morning I’d like to mix it up a bit and go in a very different direction. We live in a time […]
Good morning everybody! I wanted to take just a few minutes this morning to reflect on the groundbreaking victory we had on this past Tuesday in Alabama. Now, I say “we” knowing full well that most of us who are listening right now don’t live in Alabama and didn’t vote in their special election, but […]
It’s hard to know a moment in history when you are in it. The human ability to grasp the weight and gravity and consequence of an event, while it unfolds, is fleeting. History, as it turns out, is seen most clearly in retrospect. For most of my adult life, I wondered why people didn’t do […]
In 1997, at the age of 17, I fled rural Kentucky like my life depended on it. When I arrived in Atlanta to attend Morehouse College, I never looked back. Atlanta embraced me. In two years I was the youngest Student Government President elected at Morehouse since Dr. King was a student. I got married […]
As long as Colin Kaepernick is effectively banned from the NFL for protesting injustice and police brutality in America, no player should agree to any deal that weakens their power to not only bring him back, but ensure that what has happened to him never happens to another player again. On Thursday it was leaked […]
I know it’s hard to keep up, but this morning Donald Trump did something so dangerous, offensive, and problematic that it must be confronted head-on. In my circles, we are wary of playing what we call the “Oppression Olympics” where we rank one horrible moment of bigotry over the next, but I am forced to […]
On most mornings I speak to you about some type of injustice going on in our world – and Lord knows we have an endless number of cases I could pull from, but this morning I’d like to mix it up a bit and go in a very different direction. We live in a time […]
As you’ve no doubt heard by now, over the past few days Donald Trump, the sitting President of the United States, has literally been targeting and harassing and demeaning Black men on Twitter. Give me a few minutes to break down what’s really happening here. First off, every single morning, between 6am – 7am, Donald […]
This morning I want to tell you three painful stories of injustice. In each of them, police and prosecutors not only failed these young Black men, they conspired against them to destroy their lives – evidence of their innocence be damned. Thankfully, all three men survived to tell their story, but suffered immensely in the […]
Rallies & petitions grow for the rapper Meek Mill I want to preface what I’m about to say by first making it clear that I’m not a Meek Mill fan. I couldn’t name even one song the rapper has ever performed. I said that to say that I am not writing this from the position […]
On this past Sunday morning, Devin Kelley walked into a small country church in the rural south Texas town of Sutherland Springs and shot nearly every single person in the building – brutally slaughtering 26 innocent men, women, and children and critically injuring at least 20 others. Armed with an indefensible AR-15 semi-automatic assault rifle, […]
