commentary

The National Football League team that created and marketed the saying the “Patriot Way” has proven, once again, that they may not be the family organization they claim to be. The sudden firing of head coach Jerod Mayo is the latest example of how the team conducts its business.

I see culture as fluid and history as an expanding people map, moving through interaction and the creation of rituals and customs to mark a civilization’s expanding territories in time.

Cultural education, production and curation is critical at every level. And that extends to every level of cultural, social, spiritual, healthy, economic and political engagement of all communities at the serious strategy level.

Black music culture, with all of our literature, scholarship, poetry, visual arts, paintings and dance, is a treasure of incrediblea value and human achievement at every level.

During the recent National League baseball playoff series between the Atlanta Braves and Philadelphia Phillies, the despicable throat-slashing gesture entered our national conscience again.