I was born and raised in Chicago. Born at the now defunct, and as I drove by just this last week, now demolished Michael Reese Hospital. I started kindergarten in 1989 here in Chicago, the first year of School Reform where Chicago Public Schools still had a superintendent and the establishment of the Local School Council was […]
Read more "Mainstream Media and their Love Affair With Chicago’s Violence"Look, I’m not always the biggest fan of our Helen Thomas and how she’ll ask a question that’s slightly off topic. Case in point, she’ll ask about Afghanistan and the press conference is about the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill, but to be true to my inner skeptic, let’s keep it one-hunned, she asks valid […]
Read more "When Freedom of Speech Doesn’t Go Far Enough: The Helen Thomas Saga"Editors note: This is probably going to be one of my longer posts, maybe not, depends on how quickly I work it out. But if I go over my standard 1,500 characters so be it. So go get get the tea, coffee or print this bad boy out because I’m here until it’s done. A […]
Read more "Being Black and Dealing With Postcolonialism in a Postmodern World"Last week as I drove back down south to ultimately return my rental car and spend my Memorial Day weekend with friends in Birmingham, Alabama, I said WTH let me listen to conservative radio since I was actually traveling during the day. So, I flipped through the stations trying to find the worst and vilest […]
Read more "My Journey Into Conservative Radio"
Joshua Lawrence Lazard 