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Diddy’s Best Friend Charlie Liucci is Being Loud About His Next Moves Will Be Following Acquittal
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Things Still Fall Apart
It was out of a “sense of deprivation” that Chinua Achebe wrote Things Fall Apart. That’s what the renowned Nigerian novelist and “inventor of African literature,” told a captivated crowd in Princeton, N.J. who gathered recently to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the seminal novel. Five decades after its release, it is a fitting time…
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When Milk Does a Body Bad
Money’s tight. And as a recession looms, it’s getting tighter. So should you spend your hard-earned money — sometimes more than double the price —to buy hormone-free milk? More and more Americans are saying “yes.” Bowing to consumer pressure, last month Wal-Mart announced that its store brand milk will now come exclusively from cows free…
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Cheap Trick
Since February, I have stopped putting out. I pledged a vow of frugality, and I plan on protecting it until I get into the right relationship with my money. No mall runs, expensive dining, or manicure/pedicure combo deals. It’s my virtue. I think far too many of us are spending too easily, giving up the…
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Baseball: 'The System' Says Watchout For Texas
My friend John is one of the smartest people I know. He has degrees from two elite schools and has held high-ranking positions in both the public and private sector. Yet, when we get together to talk about baseball, he counts on his fingers. His team is good this year because on the index finger,…
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Dr. King's Challenge
What would Dr. King say to us today? We have a tendency to sanitize his memory, to remember the Dr. King who fought the evil of state-mandated segregation, the Dr. King who marched on Washington in 1963, the Dr. King with whom all Americans say they (now) agree. But there was another Dr. King –…
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What they were doing. What it meant.
BARBARA BUSH: Leading ‘awful garbage strikes.’ This was a very interesting time to be living in Washington. The Vietnam War was debated at all the dinner parties, and the whole country worried about racial and student unrest. Here is part of my diary entry from April 5, 1968, to show a little of what it…
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A Brick City Record
Periodically, I get a phone call from my grandmother that begins with her saying, “Listen to this,” or simply with her reading aloud a vignette she’d just written about her life in Newark, N.J. Usually, I tell her the brief tales sound good and encourage her to keep writing. “I’m leaving all this stuff for…
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Honoring King is Not Enough
The day after Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot, I went out into the riot-torn Washington, D.C. streets and into schools in those neighborhoods scorched by flames to talk to the children. I went to tell them not to loot and raid, so that they would not get arrested and ruin their futures. A…
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The Dream Heard ‘Round the World
“I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places shall be made plain, and the crooked places shall be made straight and the glory of the Lord will be revealed and all flesh shall see it together. This is our hope.…
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How the Talented Tenth Got Over
I am a child of the black middle class. I wasn’t quite a teenager when Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered. But I have always known that I am one of the millions of beneficiaries of his sacrifice. Middle class. I have spent a career considering the term as it relates to black people. In…
