I love movies (the older the better) and I’ve developed this annual tradition of having to see all the movies nominated for best picture before the Academy Awards are handed out. Once again I find myself up against a tight deadline to get them all watched before this Sunday night. Now if you ask my…… MORE
“People say you have a right to your opinion. That’s only half correct. You have a right to an informed opinion. If you don’t know what you’re talking about you should shut the hell up and listen.” – Donald M. Williams I was about 14 or 15 when my dad told me that. It made…… MORE
I spent last weekend in Houston covering Super Bowl 51. Let me walk you through how journalists cover the “news” side of a major sporting event. When I got to Houston, I started wandering around to talk to fans. Patriots fans were striding confidently through the streets, doing weirdly stereotypical interviews where they don’t pronounce the letter,…… MORE
If anyone knows what Atlanta fans are feeling after the most improbable collapse in Super Bowl history, it’s us, Metroplex. In this millennium alone, we’ve watched the Dallas Mavericks squander away a 2-0 NBA Finals lead, the Cowboys fall flat on their face in 2007 after one of the best regular seasons in team history, the…… MORE
Black History Month is taking on a different meaning for me this year. I was fortunate enough to grow up in a household that taught me black history all year. I am half Ghanaian and half African-American and my parents made sure that I knew my history from both sides. At an early age, I…… MORE