Chris Stevenson

Hollywood actor Blair Underwood was caught being interviewed by CNN�s Piers Morgan while black. He made some profound statements once Morgan raised the subject of Trayvon Martin. Morgan has more or less been the network overseer when it comes to blacks and their freedom of opinions in pretty much the same mold as Fox�s Bill…

This is my list of must-read books over the past 4 or 5 years, and I wouldn’t recommend them to you if I hadn’t read them myself. 10. A classic book on Adolph Hitler: Putsch! How Hitler Made Revolution. Richard Hanser (ISBN 77-130754). Can a dreamer and vocational failure become a petty-minded narcissist and then…

For a while I thought that Herman Cain was the voice of some common sense in the Grand Ole Party. I mean in the beginning the republicans had their kooks out in the forefront of their candidacy for President. Back then no one thought seriously about the lone black man in the field. Cain, the…

Troy Anthony Davis is finally free, but it’s not the freedom we were aiming for. He went before his time. He went during a time when black violence has finally drawn even with white violence, a time when black violence is finally closing the gap between itself and the black arrest rate. A time when…

An accused international serial-rapist is back in the news this week, and apparently performing his own damage control. Not that any of it is worth hearing. The criminal case against Dominique Strauss-Kahn (DSK) was ironically derailed by the same man whose job it is to vigorously charge him; the DA, Cy Vance. What I noticed…

There is a behavioral epidemic going around the country today. Actually it’s been around for a long time, but since the election of Barack Obama as President of the United States, it’s gone full-blown to say the least. It was a few months ago that I heard a caller or guest on a talk show…

Imagine being spied on one day by your own government while in Oakland CA, while 340 miles south a married couple is being attacked, and one of them murdered on a Santa Monica tennis court. Four years later you are found guilty of the murder. Only in America! Twenty seven years later you are finally…

Last Fall we witnessed Ron Walters (9/10/10) and Ambrose I. Lane Sr. (9/14/10), pass away. The first week of April saw Manning Marable return to the ancestors as well. I didn’t really know Marable except thru twitter, where he informed me that he was in the process of writing his extensive volume on the life…

Every now and then HBO tosses us a non-stereotypical black show (which only gives them away when they air “The Wire” or “The Corner,” and claim they don’t know any better). Consider “Thurgood” a home run. This is a one-man re-enactment of the life of the first black US Supreme Court Justice. As much as…