Snowmaggeddon may have been much ado about nothing, but this year’s flu isn’t. Like the would-be storm of the century, I heard a lot about this flu. Most notable was how it mutated and is not prevented by this year’s vaccine in most individuals, the Center for Disease Control having guessed wrong on which strain…

Activist, educator, and Newark mayoral candidate Ras Baraka missed last year’s Plainfield Frontiers International Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Breakfast due to the passing of his father, legendary poet and activist Amiri Baraka. The younger Baraka, now mayor of New Jersey’s largest city, spoke to the crowd gathered yesterday at Plainfield High School for this year’s annual…

Let’s be clear, I like my commute. Except for one part. “Arriving Newark Penn Station, Newark. Final stop. Transfer service available to NJ Transit trains to New York and PATH Service. Newark Penn Station, final stop.” For me, the daily announcement reads like a call to duty, the only downfall to an otherwise enjoyable trip.…

Bishop the Eastside Nappyhead, a Plainfield rapper of Negros Americanos, has informed me of a short film in which he will appear – No Boni (website). While I can’t say I’m a fan of sci-fi, I found the premise rather clever. In 2016, “pharmaceutical reparations” are considered for African Americans – allowing those who take…

Want tripod-less footage of the Mayor Mapp’s State of the City speech from 30 feet away? I got you covered.

It was cold up in Montreal, really cold. Our first full day was a balmy 46F, but from that evening on, high temperatures never so much as approached freezing. Three of the next six nights posted lows in the mid single digits – lows that were never higher than twenty. This is hardly the coldest part…

For me, New Year’s Day has always been a formality. Years are nothing more than arbitrary numbers, in all honesty. 1998, 2003, 2014 – what’s the difference really? Years are no reference point. Up until my second year in college, the grade was important, not the year. A school cycle started in September. As I transitioned…