For the most part, when it comes to my day-to-day grind realism and common sense prevail.

Year 18 of The Tribeca Film Festival has come to pass and the presence of African-Americans looks to have more prominence.

A few minutes into a discussion with Teri Williams and you know that she has a sincere, deep-rooted and unapologetic love for her people.

You can’t survive, let alone thrive 30 plus years in an industry as fickle and cutthroat as the music business without heart and soul in abundance and your circle must remain for the most part sucker-free.

“You play to win the game!” That’s what we were told, emphatically. Sometimes, though, it’s not just about the win. Those with a self-confidence that’s through the roof have a different set of parameters. For them it’s also about how.

Time for reflection. Rewind a spell to the time of the vaunted issue of XXL Magazine’s Freshmen Class 2010.

To live up to its assessment as the premiere multicultural award show and truly acknowledge the excellence in the broad scope of creative expression the NAACP Image Awards would be one long show or as it plays out currently, a ...

Outside of the Imperial Theatre was a buzz that only a premiere of a new production on Broadway can provide.

In the bigger scheme of things, the outcome didn’t really matter. Still, it’s us against them…New York vs. Los Angeles, Bad Boy vs. Death Row, Yankees vs. Dodgers, East Coast vs. West Coast and yeah, the Knicks vs. the Lakers!

Classic. We hear the word thrown around so much that we’ve become immune to the actual definition

It got no realer over the span of Feb. 28–March 3, 2019, in Las Vegas, Nevada at the host hotel, ironically called the Mirage.

For those who point to the ’90s as music’s golden era, 1994 could be used as the yardstick in which the decade was measured.

Think we can now get a clear understanding of how it now works.

For all intents and purposes the 2018 music year is a wrap. It was put to rest Sunday, Feb. 10, with the 61st Annual Grammy Awards.

From the gate you can tell it was going to be a long Super Bowl LIII weekend for the supporters of the Los Angeles Rams.