Category: Blog

  • Martin vs. Everybody

    Martin vs. Everybody

    SPOILER ALERT: It wasn’t pretty. Or easy. Or fun.

  • 6am in The Bronx

    6am in The Bronx

    When you and Bae are out in the middle of the street waving your hands at 5:30am, it’s no longer about communication, it’s about vengeance.

  • Long Live You

    Long Live You

    I’ve decided to make this diagram my cell phone lock screen photo for the next 30 days…

  • Freedom Dances

    Freedom Dances

    Bet you can’t do it like me…

  • Movin’ On Up

    Movin’ On Up

    The well-heeled streets of the Upper West Side section of Manhattan are rarely the setting where stories about fenced-in, abandoned buildings begin.

  • The Wiz of Chi-raq

    The Wiz of Chi-raq

    The Yellow Brick Road. Blood on the roads. Art & Freedom during the holiday season…

  • Don’t Sit There

    Don’t Sit There

    The irony was that a sick passenger was breaking down & barely holding on in front of me, in front of us. The working people. The good people. The taxpayers. The subway fare payers.

  • Off White Privilege

    Off White Privilege

    How we see ourselves, who we see as enemies, who we see as friends, and how we see the fight ahead.

  • Dear Why People

    Dear Why People

    This time the questions are less cute. This time the answers are not hanging nearby on plaques & displays on the wall.

  • Thank You For Being Here

    Thank You For Being Here

    Over the weekend, while eating breakfast at my favorite diner, I saw two elderly women rise up from their seats in the booth next to me and embrace each other in an extended hug while saying those words to each other.