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Finally got around to seeing the Michael Jackson movie yesterday. I enjoyed it. It brought back a lot of memories. I looked for things that I remembered seeing and hearing about him back in the 70s and 80s. I remember watching television and seeing Michael being hauled away by ambulance after his hair caught fire during a Pepsi commercial shoot. ....I also remember that Pepsi commercial, lol. And one of the things that I looked for and saw was the media showing him laying on a ambulance cot with that sparkling white glove being held up. I had little idea that the burns Michael received from that Pepsi commercial accident were so serious and left him in so much chronic pain. I though his hair just caught on fire. I wish they would have included Janet Jackson, Diana Ross, and Brooke Shields in the movie. The movie basically ends with Michael's life back in 1988 -WTF????? I sense a part 2 in the works.

New York City has erupted into an orgy of celebration, its streets swarming with crowds delirious with joy over the KNICKS ending their 53-year drought and defeating the San Antonio Spurs to become NBA champions! Congrats to them as they leave no doubt as to which was the better team by winning 4 out of 5 games to take the crown. Good job!! It's a sign of the times that victorious sports teams are generating so much enthusiasm from their followers. LIfe looms so uncertain, - is filled with such strife, due to the political and economic turmoil stifling the country, that people are desperate for things to cheer about. Anything to invest their hopes in! Here in Chicago, even our hapless white Sox, have the city excited because for the first time in 7 years, the team is playing .500 ball, even as BEAR fans can hardly wait for football to return, hoping for another thrilling season to distract us from the national conflict. Keeping up with the home teams has certainly added a little excitement to my hum drum existence. Sending the message that "good things come to those who wait," makes the KNICKS even bigger heroes. Electing a competent, respectable leader to succeed Donald Trump is certainly worth waiting for!

@Pioneer1 As, usual, the scenario your defective mind "pictures" is way off the mark thanks to the "Authentic Ignorance" of your mentality. Now trot on back to your stall and "eat yo pancakes".

All forms of entertainment including sports serve as an opiate & healthy distraction to keep people from getting too stressed &/or depressed in life. I thought the NBA would force 1 more game & allow the Knicks to win the championship back in NY. Guess the NBA was satisfied with the money haul especially game 3 when POTUS OJ attended the game & drove ticket prices up & shut down areas around Madison Square Garden. Congrats to the Knicks in overcoming a 53-year drought & winning the NBA championship.😎

Sometimes even well seasoned meat needs to be trimmed up from time to time...lol. ....and if the meat is too lean it often needs to be marbled to enhance the flavor...lol.

And you know nothin aboutmanhood since they turned you out in jail

I'm white, so my opinion is biased, but to me, our country has made great strides in accepting people who are different, but we still have a ways to go. I hate to see us going backwards, which I believe is happening now with the Trumpsters. It would be nice if, on our 250th anniversary, we could celebrate for all Americans, and not just for a select group.

Oh, puleeze. Journalism is journalism. There should be no difference between black journalists and any other ones. The truth is the truth, facts are facts, objectivity is the gold standard. Ideally, jouralism fufills its role of shining the light in dark places in order to expose and report events. (Fox News epitomizes the violation of journalistic principles and, imo, we don't need black counterparts of it.) Actually, there's no such thing as an official black point of view anymore because Blacks have diversified their politics and are found on both sides of the political spectrum. There's no guarantee that exclusively black oriented news outlets won't be inaccurate and misleading and sponsor-controlled. Op-ed is the designated domaine for people who want to air grievances and promote their point of view and you dont't have to be a journalist to utilize it. Admittedly, however, the Fourth Estate, like all of Society's other traditional institutions, has strayed from its principles, and the news media has become compromised, and lost much of its credibility with everybody, not just Blacks. I confess to gravitating toward any source that reinforces my moderate middle of the road beliefs so I check out the racially-mixed, bi-partisan panel groups on CNN and MSNBC and - dare I say it, snap shots on - FaceBook, that provide a digest of political reels featuring pod casters and pundits and outraged celebrities ranting against Trumpism. And, because I've become so fed-up with the futility of it all, - with "the- more-things-change-the-more-they-become-the-same" vibe that is permeating the country, I still faithfully watch Bill Maher. I like, in addition to having an interesting cross section of guests, his hilarious MAD MAGAZINE approach to current events, reducing everything to sly humor, deflating and chastising the Far Left, and ridiculing the dumb-ass MAGA crowd. He's a true iconoclast.

@Pioneer1 As usual , you distorted what I said to compose your strawman argument. You don't know any other way to represent yourself. Lying is second nature to you. You are truly one of the few black man I can't stand. You are the embodiment of everything that I dislike in a person.