Red Sox Baseball: An Immigrant’s Field of Dreams

07.31.2022 __We took our daughter to her first Boston Red Sox game at Fenway Park when she was six weeks Continue reading →

NFL and Truth-Telling: White People Don’t Know Enough

02.07.2021 ________________________________________ I remember, as I sometime reminisce with friends, the short-lived career of Jim Plunkett, the first player of Continue reading →

Ignorance is the Most Ferocious Enemy Justice Can Have

08.30.2020 ________________________________________ “White America would never elect such a person to the highest office in the land,” Eddie Glaude, Jr. Continue reading →

The Times They Are A-Changin’ – Just Not Fast Enough

01.26.2020 ________________________________________ “I learned early on,” Gabriel Iglesias says about his comedy routines, “– stay away from politics, stay away Continue reading →

Striving For Equal Standing in America’s Public Square

11.18.2018 ________________________________________  Thursday, November 15, 2018, I was honored as the 2018 recipient of the Loeb School of Communications First Continue reading →

Ungrateful? Overpaid? Huddled Masses From Every Corner

07.22.2018 ________________________________________  Sports transcends color and borders. Like it or not we live within an intersectional mobile world of movement Continue reading →

Memorial Day: Kneel in Worship, Kneel in Tribute

05.27.2018 ________________________________________  in March, 2018, Stephon Clark was murdered in the yard of his grandmother’s house in Sacramento CA. Police Continue reading →

True Patriots Take a Knee

01.21.2018 ________________________________________  In 1967, during the Vietnam War, several of America’s top black athletes gathered to support Muhammad Ali as Continue reading →