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Black Music History “Giving Them Roses”…

31 January 2011

Do Better’s “Black Music History” is back for the third consecutive year! This year, the month of February will be filled with Living Legends. Majority of the artists have fallen out of the Nation’s conscious. Some are still in our thoughts but we tend to wait until they’ve passed on to acknowledged their genius. After […]

Do Better Thursday: I Haz A Cold

27 January 2011

Damn, Cold/Flu bug caught me slippin’ but The Movement must roll along… DC almost caught the return of Snowmageddon… but it couldn’t measure up… it looks more like a Snow Poop… it’s not pretty at all…  Anyway… Let’s Get To It… DOING IT RIGHT!!! A&E revives prisoners attempt to save lives with Beyond Scared Straight… So […]

Do Better Thursday: Gotta Be Resolute!

20 January 2011

As Eddie once sang… I’m “Loving You The Second Time Around”… or third… or fourth… It’s only right that the day I stumbled across the sample to AZ’s “I’m Back” lines up with my return to the Do Better Movement… I know we’ve gone through this before… I run off to chase some dreams… and […]

Albums Your Parents Should Have Played for You: Isaac Hayes

20 August 2010

Welcome to Albums Your Parents Should Have Played You… It’s my attempt rectify this generations profound ignorance of the wonderful music their mom, dad, aunts, uncles, gramps, grammas and cousins enjoyed growing up… Hopefully, you’ll dig it and spread the joy of Soul Music… If I was alone on an deserted island… and there was […]

Do Better Thursday – Daley Dose: Fatherhood, A Fool’s Errand

29 July 2010

Fatherood, A Fool’s Errand by Ordale J. Allen On July 6, 2010 my wife gave birth to our first child, a baby girl named Zoe. Not only was she born on my birthday, but also the same day of the week and in the same hospital. With that many coincidences it’s either a miracle or […]

Albums Your Parents Should Have Played for You: The Brothers “Al”

26 July 2010

Welcome to Albums Your Parents Should Have Played You… It’s my attempt rectify this generations profound ignorance of the wonderful music their mom, dad, aunts, uncles, gramps, grammas and cousins enjoyed growing up… Hopefully, you’ll dig it and spread the joy of Soul Music… Growing up, if you stopped by my home on any weekend morning […]

Do Better Thursday: The Shirley Sherrod Fiasco

23 July 2010

 We all knew this day would come… We just didn’t know when, how or why… In the end, it was the most obvious issue that placed President Obama into the “Doing It Wrong” category… Race. No need for a long intro… Let’s get right to it… Doing It Right Happy Birthday to the Star Child […]

Do Better Thursday: The Sports Update

15 July 2010

You’re looking at the WAKA Spring 2010 – DC Rock Creek Kickball League Champions!!! (I’m the brother in the two-tone purple shirt… it was hot… :-/ ) Welcome back to another edition of Do Better Thursday! It feels good to be home…  This week, as you can tell from the title, the Doing It Rights […]

Do Better Thursday is… Back!?!

2 July 2010

Yeah… I know, it’s been awhile… It’s been nearly two months since the last Do Better Thursday post… I’ve gotten calls from my mom asking me what’s going on with the blog… “That’s how I stay in the loop with the hap’nings of world…” <— those are her words not mine… although, my jargon isn’t […]

Do Better Thursday: Late Edition

7 May 2010

What’s going on Do Better Nation? As you can see from the graphic above… it’s been one of those weeks… But as Pops would say… “Nothing to cry about…” and certainly nothing to complain about… It started small… Tuesday night… I got my 4th case of RROD… and Microsoft… tried to get me to pay […]

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