Samuel George Davis, Jr. was born December 8, 1925 into entertainment. His parents Sammy Davis, Sr. and his Puerto Rican (or Cuban depending who you ask) mother, Elvera “Baby” Sanchez were both vaudeville performers and who were a part of their “uncle,” Will Mastin’s act “Holiday In Dixieland.” By the age of three once Sammy […]
Ray Bradbury once wrote, “Run fast, stand still. This the lesson from the lizards…Observe almost any survival creature, you see the same. Jump, run, freeze. In the ability to flick like an eyelash, crack like a whip, vanish like steam, here this instant, gone the next-life teems the earth. And when that life is not […]
Hunter S. Thompson once proclaimed, “The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway, where thieves and pimps roam free, and good men die like dogs. There’s also a negative side…” Ask yourself, how does arguably the most famous African American man in the country, die in a seedy $3 […]
by Russell Simmons All of the media attention surrounding the censorship by many social networks of my friend, Coco’s body makes me think of society’s undue control of an individual’s morality. Seems to me that human sexuality is a gift from god. And that sexuality and all of its expression is not as harmful as […]
