Author: Alex Haynes

I consider myself to be a fairly conscious individual.  Working in media has definitely enhanced that and the over inundation of information can obviously be a lot to deal with at times.  That said, Friday nights are usually a fine time for me to unwind. For the last 6 years, despite how late or lit my Friday nights may be, I’ve gotten up and hosted a radio show on Saturdays at 8 AM.  This past Saturday I was off, but as I concluded my late night (early morning), and scoured twitter one last time, I saw rumblings of a protest…

Shocking. Scary. Nerve Wrecking. The internet has been shook over a story that Usher allegedly passed on herpes to a woman and had to pay damages to her for failure to disclose his condition. Though we don’t have all of the details in this case, there are several things that you should know about herpes before you troll the internet with your ignorance. It’s asinine to attack those already infected, and wildly insensitive. Though herpes is a well known STD, many are unsure about what it is exactly, how it may be contracted and why it should not be stigmatized. We’ve compiled some…

Justin Bieber Reportedly Cancelled His Purpose Tour Because He Rededicated His Life to Christ Wow.  What a headline.  I was on the fence on whether or not I was going to speak on this.  I’ve seen so many poking fun and other’s truly relieved.  Of course, I think perspective is everything. I was raised/spent time in a church culture through my teen years that promoted stuff like this. In that context (and you’d have to understand the environment in my opinion), actions like this are equivocated and leveled with the story of Jesus telling the wealthy man to sell his…

Friday – once again – America made history.  Undoubtedly, there was heightened sensationalism behind what we saw, more than anything else, but if there’s something to be sensationalized, it should definitely be the Trump administration’s first ‘win.’  Yeah, let’s call it that.  Unless you’ve been under a rock, you’ve heard by now that House republicans passed the new Affordable Care Act 2017 today, just before their Spring recess.  Monumental celebrations occurred and continued into the rose garden where Donald T held a press conference after this “victory.” Yes, you read that right. He held a press conference-esque celebration in the…

Shortly after DMX cancelled three shows due to a “medical emergency,” he is reportedly checking into rehab. DMX has previously been open about his past struggles with drugs and addiction, so when he felt that he was “moving to a dark place,” according to TMZ,  the famous rapper wanted to keep from sliding into that same path. DMX, real name Earl Simmons, checked into rehab last Thursday, and his manager, Pat Gallo, and ex-wife, Tashera Simmons, both reportedly encouraged the decision. Gallo also issued a statement to fans apologizing for the cancellations, saying, “It is important right now that he take some time off to focus…

I’ve already accepted that this will be difficult for some to read and even more difficult for some to accept.  For hundreds of years, “minorities” have faced persecution from white men in this country.  Actually, for thousands of years, white men have persecuted this world. Literally.  Anywhere and everywhere possible, white men, have historically invaded lands and nations that did not belong to them, claimed them and often infected them with disease and other parasitical remnants, without reprieve.  This is not a “racially charged” claim, or a prejudicial assumption.  This is the history of our world.  The history of white…

Exactly one week after being sworn in as President of the United States, a country founded by refugees escaping a tyrant in their home country, Donald Trump issued an executive order Friday indefinitely banning Syrian refugees and temporarily suspending Muslims from seven countries from entering the country.  According to the New York Times: Declaring the measure part of an extreme vetting plan to keep out “radical Islamic terrorists,” Mr. Trump also established a religious test for refugees from Muslim nations: He ordered that Christians and others from minority religions be granted priority over Muslims. My God. What is going on…

We know that President-elect Trump is a racist—or, at the very least, racist-adjacent. Like no other before him, Trump won the 2016 presidential election because much of white America underestimated the level of white supremacy on which this country was founded. It is this supremacy that allowed Trump to claim that he didn’t know David Duke, American white nationalist and former imperial wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, despite evidence to the contrary. And it is this same racism that permitted Trump to go weeks without denouncing the former leader of the terroristic KKK, who had endorsed him to be this country’s next…

Some more of the classics might be getting reboots of their own thanks to Sony Pictures Television. Some of the titles being reimagined include “The Jeffersons,” “All in the Family” and “Good times.” The reboots would have new actors recreating classic episodes from the series. They would work from the original scripts and package them as short six episode mini-series. Sources close to Lear and Sony executives say that the scripts would be treated much like new plays are. “There is some talk about doing some of the original shows, redoing them with today’s stars,” Lear said. “There is a possibility…

WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s more than a month before Donald Trump even enters the White House, but Joe Biden says he’s running for president in 2020. Maybe. “I’m going to run in 2020. For president. So, uh, what the hell, man,” the departing vice president told reporters Monday with only a slight smile on his face. Given a chance to walk it back, he did — but only a bit. Asked if he was joking, he said: “I’m not committing not to run. I’m not committing to anything. I learned a long time ago, fate has a strange way of…