I’m thinking about the recent passing of actor Nichelle Nichols and basketball giant, and intellectual, Bill Russell, today. These stars while aspiring to their own personal best, helped all of us usher in a new age of accomplishment, acknowledgement, excellence…

I have always admired musicians and artists who feel a responsibility to seek and promote truth, to get into "good trouble", and to "do no harm".  I have aspired to be that kind of artist for my entire career.  There…

On December 2nd,  I sat down for a remote interview with Amber the Fan Girl. I was in my living room in Newark, New Jersey, and she was at her interview desk in the Cheshire, England. We went “full animation…

These last few weeks have been rough in our world. Deaths throughout the Gulf region and people dying in flooded basements in New York City, of all places, from the impact of Hurricane Ida, the assault on women's reproductive rights…

For an entire generation of black people in America, there are memories seared into our minds, of sitting in front of the television with our families and watching the films Sounder, The Autobiography of Miss Jane PItman, and of course…

https://www.app.com/story/entertainment/2020/11/02/springsteen-bon-jovi-streep-jaheim-where-jersey-celebs-stand-trump-biden-election/6133775002/

English translation:

"The intention is for people to put an end to excuses and go to the polls," explains its author, who has mixed historical images and a song with new meaning.

Oct. 26, 2020, 5:15 PM EDT / posted…

I never met him, but I feel like I knew him. I think that says something about his skills as an actor.  A little bit of his essence, of his soul was in every character he played, and I connected…

I got a call a couple of weeks back from my friend Remember Jones, telling me that he was doing a special edition of his virtual concert series "Cocktail Hour with Remember Jones".  For this special show he performing some…

Yoooo! I was a guest on my first podcast ever and I loooooved it. The Real Gentlemen of Queens is a music podcast that's like sports radio for pop music nerds. Hosted by Julian Velard aka "Big Julie", and Brian…

https://houseofreedom.com/the-check-in#new-episodes