Share Have a look at my recent article in The Guardian on why financial literacy is needed instead of just student loan reforms. This paragraph pretty much sums up my view: Without financial literacy, which involves not just the hard facts of money but also the emotional drivers of people’s financial management, we will continue to [...]
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Share Happy Martin Luther King day! I wrote a piece for The Guardian – “King dream meets Obama’s reality” - on Obama’s first year in office and what it means for Martin Luther King’s vision for America. The crux of the piece is that one person cannot singlehandedly change everything, particularly in the space of one [...]
Share Last week, while I was on Reverend Al Sharpton’s radio show, I got into a discussion, both on-air and off-air about whether or not there will always be ‘haves’ and ‘have nots’ in society/the world. I was discussing why that notion is so ingrained and believed to be just the way it is and [...]
Share Recently, I have been thinking a lot about my role as a writer particularly when it comes to commentary and op-ed writing. I am always asking myself if my writing is part of a solution, or part of the problem – the “problem” being a society in which everyone has something to say, but [...]
Share This evening President Obama made his highly anticipated address to Congress. With the healthcare reform plan having come under so much fire in recent weeks, the president had a great deal of work to do tonight. He did a great job in clarifying his proposal and came out strong in setting out his vision [...]
Share I haven’t posted for a while… but I couldn’t not post today. Michael Jackson’s impact will probably only really hit home now, posthumously. But this is the man who was the first ever black person to be played on MTV, in the days when MTV wouldn’t play black music. This is the man who [...]
Share I have been accused of being an Obama butt-kisser. Apparently I am not critical enough of him. There have been some people, especially in the black community, who feel that it is their duty to criticize the president at every turn. This, they believe, keeps him ‘accountable’ and helps him to do his job [...]
Share In life, the context is decisive. That is, things only truly make sense based on the context within which they are said. If you don’t know the context to something you cannot accurately understand it. It’s really that simple. People are still banging on about Sonia Sotomayor’s comments infering that she is biased/prejudiced/racist for [...]
Share African-American women are disproportionately more likely to have an abortion than any other racial group. While abortion among white women constitutes around 10 in 1000 cases, with black women it’s around 50 in 1000. With centres like Planned Parenthood moving into urban areas and focusing more on African-Americans, some have claimed that this is [...]
