Michael B. Jordan On Success, Creative Inspiration And Leaving a Legacy
Michael B. Jordan talks about photography, directing, and his inspirations. — The image of overnight success is a misleading one. It implies that a person caught a lucky break, or was simply in the...
View ArticleAmerica’s Persistent Struggle to Love Black Youth
America doesn’t care about Black youth. If you don’t believe Dr. Darron T. Smith about this, just look at the disparity in the funding of public education. – “America eats its babies. No matter what...
View ArticleSee Some Old and New Faces in This ‘Creed’ Trailer
The Rocky films were very popular. A total of six of them have been made and only one of them was bad. The story they tell each time is a simple one, that if you never give up and push yourself you...
View Article‘Creed’ A New Chapter in this Story
A prodigal son wants to follow in his dad’s footsteps and with the right trainer he may become a champion The Rocky movies are a very well made series, well most of them anyway. It follows a simple...
View ArticleFAHRENHEIT 451 – Past as Prologue
“Knowledge is a dangerous thing..” -Fire Capt. Beatty Imagine a society where books are outlawed and “firemen” have been tasked to burn and destroy any remaining literature, erasing history right...
View ArticleA Case For Micheal B. Jordan as Superman
— So there’s been quite a stir recently that Warner Bros. and DC Films and actor Henry Cavill have decided to part ways, with the studio failing to close a deal to have the Man of Steel star reprise...
View ArticleI Choose Who I Become
— I came to Dr. Victor when I was about 40 years-old with my knees failing, in a lot of pain. I had arthritis. My flat feet pronated my knees when I walked. The long years of intense Aikido training...
View ArticleCreed: a Movie about Legacy and Family
Director and writer Ryan Coogler’s “Creed” is awesome. More than a “sequel” of the “Rocky” movies, Coogler brilliantly reinvents the “Rocky” saga for the hip-hop and cyber versed generation. Coogler...
View ArticleThe Yin and Yang of Oscars 2019
The 91st Academy Awards are beckoning. The Annual Ron and Jon Academy Awards Contest is on! Ron is back from his fab “Down Under” vacation. While I’ve been chilling out here in Torrance. Aikido. Work....
View ArticleIn This Time of Turbulence, We All Need Mercy
Shakespeare wrote in The Merchant of Venice: The quality of mercy is not strained. It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blessed: It blesseth him that gives and...
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