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Da plane boss, da plane. Do you remember that line from the opening of the old Fantasy Island TV show? Do you find yourself searching the sky? I do every time somebody claims we are living in post-racial America.

Let's take a reality break folks, Barrack in the White House not withstanding; this is still America the fractured, the unjust, the racist. But we've come so far; things are so much better. Better than what? It's kinda like saying we can't cure the cancer, but we can give you enough mi… Continue

These past months I’ve received a lot of emails and phone calls from people asking me how I do what I do and how they can begin manifesting their own vision. I always tell people to start right now, right where there are, with what they have in their hand. Too often their response is, “I don’t have enough…” usually money. I say
to you today that lack is only a state of mind. It cost exactly no dollars to launch “Not Ur Momma’s News”; I’m a firm believer that if I can do it, so can you. I wrote “… Continue

It's been 12 days, almost to the first minute that I heard. I knew that instant; I didn't need Charlie Gibson to tell me or whoever it was that finally announced the news, confirmed what my heart already knew, that Peter Pan had died. It's been 12 days that the world has been a little darker place; twelve days since they told us that never again would we see his gentle smiling face. Twelve days I've been trying to understand how a fairy tale dies, how an unmistakable spark of magic is just ... g… Continue