Last week, the Chicago Tribune ran a piece in which writer Mark Yost  challenged the “role model” sobriquet that has been bestowed upon local hero Derrick Rose. For the few of you who may be unfamiliar, Rose is a Chicago native and the star of the exciting young Chicago Bulls roster that made it to [...]

Tyler Perry is a hack. We’ve known this for a long time. He is a talentless hack who has been lucky that anyone would waste $8.50 to see the absolute nonsense that he dares to present as not merely ‘entertainment’, but some sort of authentic portrayal of the African American experience. But now we are [...]