In celebration of Kansas City Royals success I want to celebrate my Uncle John "Exaba" Irving who played for the Royals in 1969. He autographed this photo when I was 10 years old and it still hangs on my wall. Above his signature he wrote, "Seek excellence and all thi...

William H. Lewis Harvard Law School Grad... was an African-American pioneer in athletics, politics and law. He was the first African-American college football player, the first in the sport to be selected as an All-American, the first to be appointed as an Assistant Un...

I have always used my page as a source of inspiration and empowerment. Today, as the NFL draft begins for 2014 we are at a crossroads in the fight for Civil Rights in our nation. Over the past year we have watched the first colligate football player “come out” as bein...

I have always been a person who looks at events, history, and people and tries to make connections in order to gain insight into life and more importantly, myself.  As I turn 45 I have been thinking about the significance of my birthday falling on the Ides of March.  T...

There are about 41,806 different languages spoken worldwide today....and although English is the only official language in this country, many Americans struggle to speak it correctly everyday. More and more often, I hear people using the phrase "ya know what I...