Sick, tired, and fatigued from walking about 4 blocks to get to the Press entrance of Morehouse’s 129th Commencement Ceremony, one thing was embedded in my mind—“what will Obama tell the class of 2013?” After several hours had passed and the commencement ceremony began, the level of perseverance that was displayed as over 10,000 alumni, [...]
President Barack Obama, on Sunday May 19th, delivered the commencement address to the Morehouse Class of 2013. The address was the first by a sitting U.S. President in Georgia since President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered an address at the University of Georgia in 1938. Among highlights of the speech was the acknowledgment of Phi Beta Kappa graduate Leland Shelton [...]
Destiny’s Child alum Kelly Rowland comes clean in her spine chillingly honest new single “Dirty Laundry.” Revealing details of the sensitive – and often taboo – subjects of her initial envy of her former bandmate Beyoncé’s success, and an abusive relationship with a former lover, Rowland bares all – stripped like never before. Written and produced [...]
“I am trying to show the world that we are all human beings and that color is not important. What is important is the quality of our work,” dancer and choreographer Alvin Ailey said in a 1988 New York Times article just a year before his death. Such a transcendent view of humanity and of race [...]
Public perception is an ever-present cognitive concept that we as humans battle and wrestle with daily. The sociological value of our ego is dependent upon the image that (1) one believes others hold of him and (2) what one attempts to/does project, whether he admits it or not. Had I been Sociology major, I’d be [...]
