Race Relations

Rapacious Developers Are Destroying A Historic Black Neighbourhood

In 2012 the city designated Charles Avenue, one of the oldest — if not the oldest — street in Miami, a Historic Roadway. The Not Now Silly Newsroom has documented time and again how developers around Charles Avenue have done nothing but obliterate that history. The latest outrage is the most massive attempt at gentrification in West Grove since the last outrage, which was the Grove Gardens Residence Condominiums (which this reporter calls The Monstrosity). First a quick course in a century plus of ...

The Nuptial Nostalgia Tour ► Throwback Thursday

In August I announced my Road Trip to Canada, which took me to Hamilton and Toronto, cities I’ve written about previously. It was transformed into a magical road trip, filled ...

The Trunk Lost In Transit ► A Pastoral Letter

Pastor Ken Wilson wrote this book arguing for full acceptance of LGBT folk into the church and uses scripture to back up these arguments. Dear Pastor Kenny: Long time, no see! Seriously, ...

Don Knotts Is Back ► A Morgantown Update

The Don Knott’s Memorial is back in its place of honour in front of the Metrpolitan Theatre. Avid readers of my Sunrise to Canton Road Trip for Research series will remember ...

Murder and Morning Television

299 Queen Street West became the CHUM/City Building. There are some news stories that hit harder than others. That describes yesterday, which left me bereft. Back in the ’90s, as many of ...

Coconut Grove Is Not Out Of The Woods Yet

Lorry Woods had a great smile & a great idea to meet the voters in Coconut Grove. The Not Now Silly Newsroom’s Head Writer will get to it eventually Headly Westerfield, Not ...

Raking Muck in the Big Miami ► Unpacking The Writer

An app that allows me to pretend I’m being sketched on the beach. Hold on, dear readers! It’s that time of the month when I pull back the curtain like Toto ...

The Coconut Grove Playhouse Trojan Horse; Part I

Some of the parking lots described in this post. Background: Looking south towards the E.W.F. Stirrup House, dwarfed by The Monstrosity, aka ...

Packing Up 2014 ► Unpacking The Writer

A billboard erected in my honour will look nothing like this. Howdy to new readers. Old readers know Unpacking The Writer as the monthly post where I pull back the curtain ...

Farce Au Pain ► Chapter Two

The foundations of our new government are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, ...

The Ferguson Riots ► No Skin In The Game

Gordon Lightfoot’s autograph on a picture of my father’s store taken in Detroit on THE “Black Day In July,” 1967. A question I have been asked repeatedly since Monday night is ...

It’s All Nothing But Words ► Unpacking the Writer

Hello again, dear readers. For newbies: Unpacking the Writer is the monthly series in which I expose some of the wrinkles of being a Writer for Hire. I’m excited about a ...

Where The Sidewalk Ends, Racism Begins ► Chapter Three

CLICK to enlarge: Red lines represent streets never built, despite being on original planning maps. I’ve written about Marler Avenue previously (Read Part Two of Where The Sidewalk Ends, Racism Begins). ...