From T. Coates: Marc Fisher, commenting on PG County CO’s refusal to talk about a case in which a suspect was murdered: …why should bad guys and ordinary citizens pay heed when police and prosecutors lecture them about how it’s their civic duty to come forward with information about crimes? If law enforcement officers won’t Read More
To our fellow Wire heads out there.
Self-proclaimed “Street Lit” pioneer Omar Tyree is retiring. We guess your reaction to this news depends on your opinion of the Street Lit genre in general, so we won’t delve into any diatribes on the issue. Besides, Tyree’s done the work for us, in really arrogant, preachy, and suspect detail: For the record, I never Read More
Two years ago, when Eddie Murphy appeared on Inside the Actors’ Studio — right after the release of Dreamgirls, right before the release of Norbit — I sat watching in awe at how gracious, deliberate, and insightful he was. Granted, everyone puts on their best coy face for James Lipton. All Inside the Actors’ Studio Read More
Herman Perry. Image from Slate. During the Second World War, the United States was clinging to a curious policy of racial stratification in its armed forces: the government made a concerted effort to make sure thousands and thousands of black men registered for the draft, but bolstered by the pseudoscience of the day that held Read More
Obama and Bill Clinton have a chat. Whatever was said in their 20-minute phone call probably isn’t half near as interesting as the one-on-one, hour-long exchange that Obama and Hillary Clinton had behind closed doors just after the primaries were finished. Oh, to be a fly on that wall. Also, the Clintons and Obamas maxed Read More
Back when the Democratic primary race seemed all shiny and new, G.D. and I kind of talked about how it was possible that Obama was maybe was not as progressive as people thought. First, there was his health care policy. Many agreed that Clinton’s was more likely to be close to universal. Then there was Read More
