Black women, If you can only see yourselves as we see you. I took a trip to Los Angeles over a year ago for the first time in my life. Like any half aware person, I went to L.A. with a certain perception of glitz and glamour of the Hollywood life. The biggest notables of…
What’s the difference between a life test and a scholastic test? Some would say that scholastic tests are given to you after the lesson, while life tests are given to you before the lesson; that scholastic tests are standardized evaluation tools that base your effectiveness on the quantity of “right” decisions that you make, and…
They say a midget standing on the giant’s shoulders can see much further than the giant. So that means that the whole black world is standing on ‘Rack’s shoulders just to see further than he is. Naw, not that simple. But it is a start. This has been as good a year as any for…
You want to believe that you can do it without him. Screw it, you tell yourself. If he doesn’t want me, then it’s his loss. So you go on with life, growing up in a masculine society without a masculine role model to become a masculine male. You see mama working her hands to the…
Mama with no daddy, or daddy with no mama? This was one of the senseless conundrums that swished across my cerebellum recently. LeBron’s graceful comments toward his mom during Game 4 of the Boston-Cleveland series was the impetus of such navel-gazing. Lebron did apologize afterwards, saying that he was concerned about his mother’s safety and…
Yep…that four-letter word again Help me make sense of this. I’m sitting in on a conversation, covering a particular sporting event, when I overhear two of my colleagues give their spill about the future pro prospects of Tyler Hansbrough and Kevin Love (Hansbrough and Love are both white collegiate basketball players). I happen to know…
Mother, have I told you That you are the first woman I ever fell in love with, that what I’ve always wanted in life is to hear You say you love me, too? That is why, ma, it has taken Me so long to write this poem. For how could I, a Grown man, put…
Young Latroy has a problem. As he stares out of his window, with a basketball in hand, ‘Troy (as his family calls him), fondly imagines a world in which he could go in and out the house and into the streets and be a normal kid. Play some ball. Spend the night over one of…
Contrary to the title, this article is not a scathing article towards the men about their sub rosa love affairs. No, this is for the women who pursue men of power for reasons other than the important reasons. We all know that the athletes, actors, and musicians garner an exorbitant amount of attention from the…
Dear Clutch Magazine readers: I must admit that there is no unifying theme to this letter. This is a medley of thoughts and ideas that are in my mental list going into the new year. January, for many, represents the primo time of the year. A chance to start over, get it right, set new…
