Al Jolson
Stop Accusing Herman Cain of Minstrelsy
Kol Nidre, Israel, and American Jews
Taking out My Eraser
The Root has an interesting list of people they say black history could do without. It got me thinking about who I would include on a top-ten list of that kind. READ MORE >>
Michael Jackson: The Man Who Wasn't There
I have been telling friends for fifteen years that Michael Jackson would not live past fifty, although I didn't expect to be so precisely on the mark. An overdose, a botched medical procedure, or maybe just something as fortuitous as a car accident. That is, I sensed nothing as mundane as a death wish or as common as self-destructive tendencies. It just always seemed to me that there was something unreachably and definitively absent about the man. For all of the eclat, there seemed to be nothing actually there - surely, before long he would just blow away. READ MORE >>
