Have you ever noticed that when you get into certain types of discussions that part of those discussions break down to looking at definitive definitions of words that people are using in their arguments? I notice that often, many times because I’m one of those people doing that very thing. Erich Ferdinand via Compfight Sometimes […]

I based the previous two articles on this series on the black community, or at least my perception of it based on my own background and what I’ve seen over the years. For this article, I’m taking it out of a specific community and looking at these concepts of leadership as a global vision. Well, […]

In the previous article, I spent time talking about gangs and why they can be so prominent in local communities. That wasn’t a post about gangs but about leadership. I’m using the community as an example of how leadership is seen by many people there, but I wouldn’t want anyone to think that’s how the […]

Years ago I gave a presentation to a local organization that talked about leadership in the black community. It was a general conversation with some people that I knew, as I was part of the organization, and part of what I wanted to address was why it seemed that gangs were so prominent and strong […]

This is something different for me… for this blog at least. For the 31 days of this month, I’m planning on having a blog post here. I’ve never done that with this blog; as a matter of fact, I think that only a few times in the almost 11 years I’ve been writing this blog […]