Actor. Writer. Director. Producer. End of Production Day. Shot in Culver City, CA by Nathan Richardson. (Also, let me shout out the Rock and Roots of Fight, because, a black and gold Muhammad Ali training shirt had to be the most predictable swagger jack/impulse purchase of my life.) (Coming Soon…)
As someone who literally wore an ‘Angry Black Man’ t-shirt during his college days, I feel uniquely qualified to drop my two cents on this one… First, here’s the truth about 90 percent of the ‘angry black people’ you see… Now, I know anger. My blood has boiled red hot, especially in the younger […]
You know, a few weeks back at the last MMA show, a few people asked me what my ‘walk in’ music would be if I was in a fight or a WrestleMania situation. And I have so many hype songs, I really couldn’t pick one off the type of my head. Then last night, […]
Me and all my friends We’re all misunderstood They say we stand for nothing and There’s no way we ever could Now we see everything that’s going wrong With the world and those who lead it We just feel like we don’t have the means To rise above and beat it So we keep […]
So this is about what I owe you. All of you. It’s happened not so much as a conscious or deliberate choice as much as it’s happened as a ‘this is how I choose to live my life’ choice, but I’ve built a big part of my adult reputation as a goofy, devil may […]
So let’s start with something Rashida put out there last week: IMHO, the most salient issue in the next decade will be privacy. EVERYONE'S: Man, woman, celeb, not celeb. No question about that… — Rashida Jones (@iamrashidajones) September 2, 2014 We’ve all been talking about this and debating the issue of ‘privacy’ for the […]
This Friday, the USC Center for Islamic Thought, Culture and Practice is sponsoring a conference on campus where the subject is American Muslims in Public Service. The all day event is free and open to the public, the keynote speaker will be (debatably) the highest profile American Muslim in public service today, Congressman Keith […]
Where to begin… Let’s begin at the end. Balance. I couldn’t give you an exact day or at this point, an exact year, when I turned to meditation to increase my spiritual grounding. Like everything else, the beginning is the hardest part. You get frustrated that it doesn’t come naturally, you want to quit […]
I made my annual trip to Griffith Observatory this weekend. I saw a show that wasn’t playing on my last trip, and as usual I marveled at how big the Universe is, and how small we are, and how much we still don’t know. I walked outside; darkness had fallen. I looked out over […]
As this Ramadan ends, I thought I would have a lot to say. But maybe not as much as I first thought. Fasting has an interesting effect on the body and the mind. I can only truly speak for myself, but I know of what it does to me and others: violent mood swings, […]
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