Undercover Black Man

Guess what? I just figured out how to upload videos to YouTube. I was motivated by a certain anniversary... Five years ago – in February of ...

A week ago, HBO started uploading clips to YouTube. Embeddable clips. Whoopee! Here’s a little clip from Season One of “Extras.” (Am I the ...

Blogger extraordinaire James Wolcott (a Hillary Clinton supporter) has spanked Penn Jillette for a certain “slimy” putdown of Hillary that ...

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: Musically speaking, Brooklyn is the world’s capital of cool. Michael Hill’s Blues Mob , which I’...

Her name is Lunga... short for Nokulunga Buthelezi . She’s from South Africa. Lunga is a contortionist. The best I’ve ever seen. (And I’ve b...

The video quality is poor. The sound is shitty. But you’ll be glad you spent 5 minutes watching this clip from 1983. (Check out Prince’s mod...

Okay, set aside the question of why Mr. Julian Bond – chairman of the NAACP – is sticking his dick in the Democratic Party’s business. Neve...

We’ll be seeing much in the U.S. news media about Africa in the coming days, with George Bush over there. Below, courtesy of Big Think , is ...

President Bush is on his way to Africa for a week-long trip . One of the nations he’ll visit is Ghana . That’s an occasion for another Black...

The New York Daily News yesterday ran an article with this headline: “Radio’s Troi (Star) Torain ready for his comeback on Pulse 87.” Many ...

Here’s some adults-only silliness and good clean filth from a couple of young brothers outta the Bay Area – Jonathan and Shawn Lewis. It’s...

On the occasion of acquiring new weapons and equipment for his police department, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin found time to share a laugh wi...

I wanted to find a nice romantic song for y’all on Valentine’s Day. I stumbled upon a sad story instead. Lynden David Hall was a young Brit...

Need a mid-week fix between episodes of “The Wire”? Maybe you ain’t even about that fictional shit. You wanna know what it’s really like to...

Blogger Mes Deux Cents , in a comment posted here last night, mentioned a piece of news I hadn’t heard. Australia’s prime minister, Kevin R...

Jayne Cortez is a fiery poet. Her words come fast, splashing pungent metaphors across your inner skull. She is a celebrant of time-transcen...

Rush Limbaugh’s relentless attacks on John McCain did nothing to slow McCain’s roll to the Republican nomination. So I know Rush is irreleva...

Basketball legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar has started a blog under the banner of the Los Angeles Times. Thus far, it’s as much about history an...

Well, DeAngelo... last time we locked horns , Hillary Clinton was ahead in the delegate count. She was leading Barack Obama 42 percent to 32...

Looks like my union will vote today to end the Hollywood writers’ strike. And soon a grateful nation will get what it has been craving... m...