Commentary – Page 4 – Bomani Jones

November 26, 2014

It’s been a slow death for the legend of Bill Cosby. As allegations of sexual assault — decades-old claims that are now being treated with a...

November 11, 2014

ESPN's new 30 for 30 film Rand University (8 p.m. ET, ESPN), directed by ESPN Films producer Marquis Daisy, executiv...

August 25, 2014

It was good to see Nicki Minaj at the 2014 MTV Video Music Awards. Of course, she was riding shotgun on “Bang Bang,” even though the video for...

May 22, 2014

Dr. Dre’s Detox is hip hop’s Atlantis, a genius at his highest levels crafting a perfect, utopian work of art that most likely doesn’t exist....

May 15, 2014

Jay-Z once bragged about how he held us down for six summers - and that was back in 2001. To put that into perspective, there was no Twitter,...

May 8, 2014

Well, that escalated quickly. Audio recordings of Clippers’ owner Donald Sterling, telling his girlfriend not to be seen in public with black ...

May 7, 2014

On Friday, April 25, Leonore Draper died in Chicago. I've known her almost 15 years and was in her wedding. For various reasons, each of us h...

May 3, 2014

Symbols vs. substance in the racism debate The MHP panel—Jelani Cobb, Ari Berman, Brittney Cooper and Bomani Jones—discuss how outrage about...

May 1, 2014

Illmatic is one of the best hip hop albums ever. I've often said it is the hip hop equivalent of Marvin Gaye's What's Going On. The artists p...