You’re probably asking where the heck is Kanchanaburi. Kanchanaburi is a town in west Thailand located about 3 hours from Bangkok. A friend and I traveled down to the River Kwai for a weekend getaway and we decided to spend a few hours here. We made the most of our time here but Kanchanaburi is definitely worth a visit. The town is known for its Death Railway Bridge that was built during WWII. The bridge […]
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This post is for any black person going to work still and their employer and co-workers expect you to act like everything is normal. We are in the middle of a pandemic that is affecting black people more, we have witnessed Ahmaud Arbery’s murder, Breonna Taylor has been murdered by cops without being charged, George Floyd was lynched on video, Rayshard Brooks was gunned down and the list goes on. Now they tell us blacks […]
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Recall that blacks had to sit in the back of the bus and if a white person boarded the bus and they were the only black in a seat then the law was that they had to give up their seat to the white person. We as consumers have power. Never forget why the Montgomery Bus Boycott was successful. Blacks accounted for approximately 40,000 bus riders which was 75% of the city’s bus riders. They wanted black drivers, segregation laws and a first-come, first-seat policy. They made sacrifices to sustain the boycott. They […]
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Black people make up 13.4% of the US population, but only 3.3% of all US corporate executive or senior leadership roles were held by Blacks in 2018. Data taken from the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Only FOUR, less than 1%, of the current Fortune 500 CEOs are Black and ZERO are women. Corporate American has been failing black America for centuries. This is a form of systemic racism. There are talented non-white men that […]
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Tony Aaron II and I had the opportunity to be special guests on the Delvin Cox Experience Podcast. Check out the interview to hear about social justice and Kamala Harris’s VP nomination.
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If you are looking for a custom tailor in Bangkok then look no further than Victor and Jesse at Rajawongse. Victor’s shop was recommended to me by a co-worker and said they were the best. They stand by their quality and I was given a certificate for a free hand-made shirt and pants. I knew then any tailor that would do this for free must be good and rely on the quality of their product […]
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Thanks to the Cosplay Journal for letting me write this piece on the lack of representation in Hollywood. Check it out here. https://thecosplayjournal.com/articles-and-tutorials/representation-matters
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Systemic racism runs deep. Especially in corporate America where they can use something as simple as black hairstyles to discriminate against us. The year was 2006 and I was about to graduate college. I was forced to make a decision. Cut my afro that I had been growing for 4 years in order to conform to white society norms or risk not getting hired out of college. I chose to cut my hair. This was […]
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The International Online Web Fest (IOWF) in which Triggers is nominated for 6 awards including, , started a new live show called “The IOWF Hub.” Tony Aaron II and I had the opportunity to be special guests in its first episode. Check out the interview to hear about our movie, Triggers, about gun violence and conservative politics.
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Here is the 4K link for our new award-winning independent movie Triggers. It is a social justice movie about gun violence and conservative politics in the age of right-wing media. We’re on the right side of history. Join us. Synopsis: Peter Shaver, a grieving conservative political candidate running for office in Oklahoma, is making his way to an interview where he is expected to respond publicly for the first time to personal tragedy and recent events […]
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