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Entertainment is my life-long lifestyle. Writing is my deepest expression. Music is the air I breathe.

I'm an ambitious writer/producer, with more than fifteen years industry experience, from music to film.

I started my own independent label, Dynamo Records

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Politics, News & Issues > Police & Prisons Are the police violating the law when tasering an unarmed citizen?: 1 of 33
Bad boys, bad boys...what you gonna do? What you gonna do when they come for you? The long-standing theme-song for the television series, COPS, dramatizes much more than just a reality TV show. Most law-abiding citizens in America don't perceive the threat of violence or attack by police, unless or until it happens to them.Bu... More..
Society & Lifestyle > Society & Lifestyle (Other) Rape: The most misunderstood crime: 1 of 21
How is rape the most misunderstood crime? As a survivor, the simplest answer I can give for the wide-spread misunderstanding of rape, is obstinate perceptions, such as believing in false precepts like, "being in the wrong place at the wrong time" or "looking for trouble." Centuries of criminal case studies and hundreds upon t... More..
Entertainment > Music Business Music piracy: Is downloading music ethical?: 4 of 72
Music + Ethics = oxymoron.Downloading is NOT piracy. Piracy is defined as copyright infringement. An unethical theft of personal property. Media companies play their ethics card in our courts and public mediums, only when it applies to the limited use of music and other medias. But there are no ethics involved when these same... More..
Society & Lifestyle > African-American Issues Reducing the homicides among young African-American men: 1 of 17
I'm not biting that baited hook of 'gangsta mentality' being the underlying motive for the growing number of homicides perpetrated by America's men of color. Why? Because black men are killing record numbers of their own black people.In observance of World Aids Day today, the China Daily newspaper reported their hiv/aids case... More..
Society & Lifestyle > Society & Lifestyle (Other) The greatest comeback story: 12 of 193
"And I'm Still Standing." That's the title of the autobiographical book I've been attempting to write, for more than ten years, and counting. Why? Truth is, it hurts, just thinking about my past. Life certainly is what you make of it. But what about the things that "make up" your life? Without putting too much attention on de... More..
Parenting & Pregnancy > Adoption Is giving up a child for adoption giving or selfish?: 1 of 16
I am an adoptee, twice over. Yes. You read it correctly. I was not once, but TWICE adopted, prior to the age of nine. I have three legal names, and associated birth certificates, the first of which is my given name at birth, not yet identified. The most frequently asked question is, "How did that happen?" My birth mother, who... More..
Religion & Spirituality > Thoughts on God Reasons to believe in God: 9 of 121
Is there reason to believe in God? There is so much pain and suffering in the world...famine and pestilence, murder and assault, war and terrorism. How can a loving God allow so much torture and sorrow, and the agony of death?I was an innocent child when I first realized, my life was at the mercy of the world around me. There... More..
Politics, News & Issues > Democratic Leaders Oprah ogles Obama: Stars use their media power to back presidential candidates: 2 of 18
In the words of the awkward middle-daughter, Jan Brady, from the Brady Bunch, I say, Oprah...Oprah...Oprah!Wasn't it Oprah Winfrey, back in January of 2007, who neglected and excluded every (less-fortunate and well-deserving) American seventh and eighth grade child, in order to honor Nelson Mandela of South Africa with a lavi... More..
Society & Lifestyle > Racism Reverse racism: The other face (of discrimination): 5 of 40
Reverse racism is not an oxymoron. It is an ironical term that reflects how the roles of the "white man's" racist discrimination upon generations of black's as a people, who have fought and died to overcome multitudes of oppression, race-based slavery, white-on-black mob lynchings, governmental separatism, and decades of prea... More..
Society & Lifestyle > Political Values Changing assumptions about the "women's vote": 1 of 8
According to the United States Population Census, as of July 1, 2003, by a population of 147.3 million, women exceed 143 million men. Men outnumber women in every five year age group, up to the 35-39 slot. Starting at the 40-44 age group, women surpass men and in the 80-85 age bracket, women more than double men. 85% of women... More..