Who Stands to Benefit? Student Loans, Banks and The College Lie

  When trying to solve a crime, generally speaking, one needs only follow the trail of clues that leads to the person or parties who stand to benefit the most from the action to find the most likely culprit. When we look at the systemic crimes and injustices that are inherent in the American Society [...]

Without Hyperbole, The Civil Rights Issue of Our Time: Marriage Equality

My generation is quick to label things the “landmark historical event analogue” of “our time”. Whether people are hailing the landing of a man-made probe on Saturn’s moon of Titan as the “moon landing of our time” or are discussing more terrestrial matters by attaching the label of “the civil rights battle of our time” [...]

Citi Bike Program to Begin in Select NYC Locales This May

New York City cyclists have something to look forward to this Spring. The city will launch a bike share program to provide an additional mode of transportation to a wider array of residents. Citi Bike will be a low cost option for transportation in a city with ever increasing costs for public and individual commuting. [...]

Madame Noire Features in February- Women in the Marines

Evening everyone. As you can see, a brother has been busy. Finishing up book projects, putting together panels, and keeping people abreast of what is going on. In addition to all this, I have been doing writing over at Madame Noire. Check out two profiles I did this month on women in the Marines. Sheila [...]

Something Sinister This Way Remains

We like to delude ourselves, especially those of us in major metropolitan, highly diverse, and liberal areas such as New York, into thinking that we are well on our way to being a “post racial” America. I remember, clearly, the white liberal media patting itself on the back during the 2009 Inauguration of Barack Obama [...]