We had a wonderful time with 100-plus residents who came out last night for our Cornel West event. Much more on that later. In the mean time, check out this video.

Update: Slightly tweaked the audio. We all know Jerry Green’s record in our community. Will Plainfield let all of the City become Mr. Green’s Neighborhood, including its schools? You wouldn’t want your kids to watch this new television show. Turn on your sound and listen to the intro song. Vote #2 Rutherford, #3 Jeffers, #7 Bellamy on November 4th.…

Just a reminder that Dr. Cornel West will be spending an evening in Plainfield tonight. We hope that you will be able to join us for this Children First Team fundraiser dinner. The donation is $65. Tickets for the 6:30 VIP reception are $125.

I really didn’t plan to release this piece, much of which I wrote following Danny Dunn’s speech at the past City Council meeting. Then came this weekend’s campaign fish fry breakfast. Danny Dunn acted so embarrassingly that he felt it necessary to call me afterwards, twice, pummeling me with long, wildly inconsistent, incoherent rants of…

Cushing’s Disease Charity Football Game As announced in the Courier News, a charity football game was to take place on Seidler Field Saturday afternoon. The proceeds will benefit research into Cushing’s Disease, Plainfield non-profit group C.U.R.E. whose goal is to rebuild community center in town, and towards the medical bills of Erica Brown, a Plainfield resident who suffers from…

You may remember that I helped shoot a video with Negros Americanos back in June, right after the primary elections. The video for “Purple Twilight” has just been released by MC Enigma. If you’re from Plainfield, you’ll recognize the Shakespeare Garden, Cedarbrook Pond, and shots around downtown Plainfield as you listen to this smooth one.

Resident Terrence Hooker invites all to the Children First Team’s second fish and grits breakfast, which will take place Saturday 10/18 at 10am at 1086 Kenyon Avenue, near Parkside Rd. We had a great time last Saturday and hope to meet even more of you this time around.

Contrôler. Pronounced Kawh-tro-lay. It’s a French word that is used to describe the act of performing any sort of check or verification – be it the collection of a train ticket, official approval of one’s identification when crossing borders, or controversial contraband searches and/or citizenship verification in French cities, highly disproportionately aimed at people of color. You can image the…

  Renowned author, professor, and activist Cornel West was arrested yesterday in front of the police station in Ferguson, Missouri, while participating in the Ferguson October demonstrations. These protests, of course in continued response to the killing of unarmed black teenager Mike Brown in August, have been the largest and most organized demonstrations since the shootings, attracting activists…

Walk, run, hang out and take pictures. I have yet to decide what I will do during tomorrow’s Fourth Annual Queen City Walk/Run at 9 o’clock. On one hand I have a medal to defend, a first place finish in the men’s 20-29 age group last year. On the other hand, admittedly, this cyclist’s victory…