It's been about 20 years since I last coached youth league football and when people ask me why I stopped, the answer is simple: Too many fathers, uncles, older cousins, and “friends of the family” acting like jackasses in the stands and on the sidelines of Pee Wee (age 10-11) football games.

When I read that Michael James, 61, an exceptional education teacher at predominantly Black Semmes Elementary School in Escambia County, Florida, had written a resignation letter to Florida Gov. Ron Desantis after a colleague removed his collage of famous Black figures in history this week, …

Angela Reed, the new leader at the legacy institution, Turning Point, and Patricia Carter, her team partner, were guests for ‘The Conversation with Al McFarlane’ appearing to promote a first of hopefully more Town Hall meetings and conversations with school officials, classroom instructors, …

If you have wondered where your daily Hobbservation Point posts have been, well, last Thursday evening, I dislocated my left shoulder and slightly tore a ligament while lifting kettlebells 😥. Friday's surgical procedure was a success and while there is still some pain, I am on the mend and e…

This was Carolyn Bryant, age 19…

As August begins, there's an excitement that I’m experiencing almost daily from seeing parents beam with pride as their children prepare to fly from their nests to begin their collegiate journeys! I can't help but admit that the pictures that are flooding Instagram and Facebook take me back …

Gazing upon our world...

Running off at the Android....

Nobody asked me, but….

Dorothy Malcolm arose on the morning of July 25, 1946—76 years ago today—and prepared to celebrate her 20th birthday with her husband, Roger Malcolm, and their best friends George Dorsey, a U.S. Army veteran recently returned home from World War II, and his wife, Mae. By nightfall, the quart…

Mas de un millon de muertos y desaparecidos

MAIS DE UM MILHÃO DE MORTOS E DESAPARECIDOS

More than one million dead and disappeared

(Bogota, Colombia) –Here in Colombia, South America, this coming August 7, President-Elect Gustavo Petro and Vice-President Elect, Francia Marques will begin a process of change in one of the most violent and racist countries in South America.

While Morehouse College has a well-earned reputation as one of America’s foremost academic centers of excellence, one with an alumni roster that reads like a “Who’s Who” in American history, the school is still very much a bacchanalian bastion in that partying, alcohol, and drug use have led…

“No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance…”

Earlier today, the House of Representatives passed the Respect for Marriage Act, a bill that would repeal the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), while protecting both same-sex and interracial marriages if it passes in the Senate. 

From my vantage point, real courage is knowing that you are walking into the valley of the shadow of death—and still walking towards it boldly and confidently.

A recent poll from the AARP’s Georgia chapter shows that 50 percent of likely voters would vote for incumbent Sen. Raphael Warnock (D), compared to 47 percent who would support his Republican challenger, the former football player known as Herschel Walker.

At last, the statue of the great Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune will be unveiled to represent the State of Florida at Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol Complex later this morning in Washington, D.C.!

When the NFL froze out Colin Kaepernick due to his social justice stances back in 2017, I was among a number of football fans that quickly soured on the League to the point that in the five years since, I haven't watched a single full game!

Kudos to former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson on his decision to travel to Russia to seek the release of women’s professional basketball star Brittney Griner (along with former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan). 

Is California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) the new hope for Democratic presidential politics in 2024?

It surprises some folks to learn that as a Christian, I am strongly against the union of church and state; my opposition is firmly rooted in my knowledge of history, one that proves that from time immemorial, unspeakable horrors have been committed by so-called Christians in the name of Jesu…

Summertime invokes so many memories from childhood, perhaps none more than the movies that helped pass the time between the last day of school—and the first day of the next school year—movies that are now on demand via any number of streaming services like HBO-Max, Netflix, or Hulu. 

The irony is not lost upon me that on the 4th of July in the year 2022, a day set aside by law to celebrate the time in 1776 when 13 British colonies rebelled from Great Britain's rule and ignited a bloody war for independence from King George III, that yet another episode of mass bloodshed …

Sharing a few things that I like and dislike on this first Friday in July...