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"Passing Strange" starts its Broadway run on February 8

Regular readers of this blog know that I am a huge fan of Stew’s musical, Passing Strange, having been fortunate enough to see it during its run at the Public Theater last summer.  Good news is that this Black rock musical is set to open at the Belasco Theater on February 8.  This is a [...]

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Rock on NYC's Hot 97?

Here’s further evidence of the cultural shift.  I’m channel surfing in the car on the way home last night and I stop by Hot 97.  Funkmaster Flex was doin’ his thing.  But what really caught me off guard was that he threw  some classic rock into his set: Joan Jett’s "I Love Rock n Roll"; [...]

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GOOD READS: #TrayvonMartin Around The Web

So much conversation–and now maybe some justice–for this young man.

GOOD READ: Charles Blow on the Trayvon Martin case

Will an innocent black boy get justice?

What’s Race Got To Do With It?

The antidote to the country’s first black president

Why Is The N.Y.P.D. After Me?

A 23-year-old New Yorker talks about having been stopped and frisked by NYPD at least five times.

The Rise of the New Confederacy: How America-Hating Right-Wingers Took Over The GOP

Those on the extreme right are different. Here’s how and why.

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