I was getting my daily news on the internet today and came across an article that stated that the 26 year old FAMU student, Robert Champion, who died last month after a hazing incident–his death has been ruled a homicide. Its unfortunate. His autopsy report is available to view online. Even when I was a [...]

Alexis Simpson is the 19-year-old Bowie State student who is accused of murdering her 18-year-old roommate, Dominique Frazier. According to various news reports Alexis and Dominique didn’t get along particularly well and after an argument that began over music, a physical altercation began. Those are all the details that I have to share at the [...]

Hey there! On Wednesday, December 8, I’ll be visiting Penn State’s Harrisburg Campus talking about the Politics of Hip Hop Culture. This long running lecture series is one of my trademark presentations and this year I get to talk about the phenomenon that is: Nicki Minaj! Its fun to bring sociology to hip hop culture [...]

On day two of my Politics of Hip Hop Culture tour I discovered that college women are turned off by the open crotch shots ie (Lil Kim and Nikki Minaj.) When I asked men if they liked the photos, of course they said yeah. But it still wouldn’t make them buy the album. They would [...]

Today I spoke at the downtown campus of the Florida State College at Jacksonville. Before I could get started, right after I was introduced in fact–a female student in the front of the auditorium raised her hand. I was excited because I usually don’t get questions until after my lecture is over but this girl [...]

A new study in the Journal of American College Health is announcing something that many of us have known for a long, long, long time: College students who are in coed housing have sex more than students in single-sex housing. As Homer Simpson would say, “Doh.” Portions of the study appeared in the USA today [...]

Hey there! I like to meet fans and friends all around the country so I wanted to let you know that I’ll be lecturing at Florida State College at Jacksonville this Monday, Tuesday, & Wednesday. The topic is: 10 Steps for Highly Successful Undergrads. The lecture is about motivation and tools to get you going [...]