The Times They Are A Changin’
Authors Note: This essay was written many years ago for a school assignment. The 1960’s were an intense time to be a young American. So many historic moments happened within such a close proximity of time. Events such as the Civil Rights movement and the Vietnam War forever changed the lives of young United States [...]
A Moral Obligation: Lupe Fiasco and The Great American Rap Album
Joseph Coleman’s death, a drive by shooting allegedly stemming from the rivalry between Black Disciples and Gangster Disciples, wasn’t just another killing on Chicago’s south side, one of hundreds that will happen this year. It demonstrated the main problem with hip hop today. A glorification of the gang lifestyle, perpetuated not by those who live [...]
Death of a phone call
When I was in elementary school, I remember looking up my crush’s phone number in the telephone book. The thin paper of the White Pages slipped under my trembling, sweating, prepubescent fingers, my eyes scanning page after page, looking, searching: L, M, N, O, O’C, O’H… finally landing on O’Malley. My heart skipped a beat, [...]
The Obama Review
Over the past 6 years, America has seen some of it’s worst times when it comes to it’s leadership. We’ve had leaders such as President George W. Bush take office and just made America into something that it was never meant to be. He took a multi-hundred billion dollar surplus and made it into a [...]
