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11years ago
The cycle

What is the real Baltimore?

At the corner of North and Pennsylvania avenues I saw one Baltimore trying to outshine the other. But when night fell, the other Baltimore appeared.

12years ago
The cycle

Orange is the New Black gets more colorful

Everyone’s talking Orange Is The new Black — and so am I.

12years ago
The cycle

Touré: Rethinking the story of David and Goliath

We all know the story of David and Goliath, or at least we think we do.

12years ago
The cycle

The unedited Putin op-ed

Did you catch Vladimir Putin’s recent New York Times editorial? The Cycle host Toure was able to get the unedited version which he graciously shared on Friday’s

12years ago
The cycle

A March on Washington 50 years later

The reasons why we needed a March on Washington 50 years ago are still with us. It was called the March on Washington for jobs and freedom and the jobs part

12years ago
The cycle

The road to becoming smart on crime

We have a new federal policy toward non-violent drug offenders to lock them up less often and for less time as well as perhaps a new direction on stop-and-frisk

13years ago
MS NOW

Essence beat ‘The Cosby Show’ to cool

The first major magazine to agree to publish me was Essence. I’d been out of college and in New York for a few months and somehow I’d met some Essence editor.

13years ago
The cycle

A focus on the war on drugs

Our recent peek at the surveillance state has many people understandably freaked out. Some want to blame Obama.

13years ago
The cycle

President Obama’s message to Republicans

“In yo face” is a great idiom that according to the American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms emerged in the 1970’s from basketball culture as a way to defiantly a

13years ago
The cycle

A plea to Congress on immigration

If corporations really were people, Apple would be a cool guy. A fun, charismatic dude who always looks hip and just wants to help everyone have a good time.