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Is America Ready for a Black Male Lead on Television?

“It’s peculiar that there isn’t any entertainment platform discussing the issues surrounding black men.” In 1992 as Eddie Murphy was riding the wave of his success, he took liberty to create the ideal we know as Boomerang.  Murphy portrayed Marcus Graham; the film’s lead character who’s a high-power advertising executive who happens to be a womanizer.  It’s...

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7 Lessons I Learned Watching ‘Boomerang’

Recently I moved into a new place, and being in a new place without cable or Internet will force you to find different ways to entertain yourself.   Ruling out the options of playing cards or board games (do they still make them?), I simply reverted back to my childhood days when the cable might...