Morris W. O'Kelly

In this 24-hour news cycle, ostensibly we should be inundated with more news, information and substantive analysis, which would provide a solid foundation to measure the performance of politicians.

Instead, we seem to get bogged down in soundbite minutia, to the point we miss the obvious.

For example, when President...

"It's not about the crimes or even the criminals. It's about how both affect the characters...how they react to them. There is truth in their reactions."

The tweets were likely fleeting in nature, consistent with how the multitude of us use Twitter to socially interact. Momentary thoughts, ephemeral emotions...140 character snapshots of one's conscience. CNN commentator Roland Martin has come under fire for two tweets during the Super Bowl which GLAAD argued were homophobic...

Hopefully, African-American cinema will mature right along with her.

Keke Palmer is far too composed for only having been on this Earth for 18 years.  She's avoided scandal despite matriculating from child to fully-grown film star, a rarity to be...

The Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) has been struggling as of late. That's not breaking news. Desperate times call for desperate measures and that too is not breaking news. You can best be sure, OWN executives made the announcement of targeting African-American viewers as a weather balloon, a message in the...

Dear Tyler Perry,

I have never been concerned with gaining favor with celebrities or undeservedly denigrating one's work. I have always prided myself on putting my community first, even when doing so has been unpopular and frankly unappreciated by members of that same community.

So understand that my letter to...

These are just some observations from my little hole in the wall. I just want to see how closely folks out there have been paying attention to the political discourse of recent months. Take away from these notes scribbled on the chalk board whatever you want; just know they are...

In dating, there is an old axiom which says that if you want to know whether someone is marriage material, watch how s/he treats family. It may be nice that someone has taken personal interest in you; but what's more important is how they treat others, unrelated to their particular...

Students of political history already know the story of the late Senator Ted Kennedy in 1979. Others like Mo'Kelly are old enough to simply remember it. For everyone else, it goes a little something like this. Democratic party discontent with President Jimmy Carter for all things ranging from the American...

Let's go Michele Bachmann! Push 'em out, shove 'em out... WAYYYYY OUT!

Yes, you read that correctly. Congresswoman Michele Bachmann's Iowa Straw Poll victory wasn't only great news for the Bachmann campaign, it was also tremendous news for the Sarah Palin "campaign." Which a priori is wonderful news for President...

There's an old saying which admonishes us to "take care of home first." There's another which says "know which side your bread is buttered." Or how about, "dance with who brung ya." All of them offer the same general pearls of wisdom; knowing where your true support base resides and...

Well the GOP has done it again. Presidential candidates Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum, recently signed a controversial marriage "pledge." Part of the document alleges that the family situation of African-American children living under slavery was superior or preferential to today. Meaning, Black slave children allegedly had stronger families...

Yes, Bristol Palin's "memoir" has been out for a couple of weeks now, and it has taken this long for Mo'Kelly to stop laughing at the idea that any 20-year-old -- best-known for a crazy mother and out of wedlock child -- has penned her life's highlights.

But after calming...

This is not a movie review, a history lesson or a call to action. It is simply a statement of truth.

I could go to painstaking lengths, detailing how deeply offensive and unfunny the repeated and gratuitous use of n**** in the movie The Hangover Part II was, but the...

So maybe now, finally, Bishop Eddie Long will get to hurl the rest of his five rocks he supposedly has at the ready. The first rock of mediation missed the mark, or so it seems. Given the breakdown of settlement talks of the four sexual coercion lawsuits confronting Long, a...

"I'm so sick of hearing about damn Spike Lee. Spike can go straight to hell! You can print that. I am sick of him talking about me, I am sick of him saying, 'this is a coon, this is a buffoon.' I am sick of him talking about black people...

All Donald needed to do was give a cursory glance at the requirements for U.S. citizenship when President Obama was born. There is no debate, just misdirection and veiled racism. Instead of looking to cite law and facts, Trump's opted for ignorance in the form of newspaper editorials indicting the...

The first time Mo'Kelly heard Jacob Lusk sing, it wasn't on TV. It was singing together in the tenor section at the Congregational Church of Christian Fellowship here in Los Angeles. He was just as genuine, full of smiles and singing talent then as he is now. So can you...

Some know Brian White from movies such as Stomp the Yard, Fighting, Mr. 3000 and Tyler Perry's I Can Do Bad All By Myself.  Others know him from his co-starring roles on such TV shows as Men of a Certain Age and The Shield.

Actor, model and dancer Brian White...

Hear that?

That gurgling sound would be from Bishop Eddie Long's career circling the drain as we speak. The statement is neither hype nor for the sake of hyperbole. Long closed out the decade with four sexual coercion lawsuits, stories surrounding the alleged, previous abuse of his first wife and...