A few days ago I was on TIDAL, the struggling music streaming company owned by Jay Z, listening to Kanye West’s “The Life of Pablo” (TLOP) and I came across this piece,“Kanye Unfinished: The Evolving Life of Pablo”…

I was in London to see  The Edge Fund two weeks ago for my work as a Program Officer for The Heinz Endowments (I've written about the Edge Fund before) and was taken by the fierce Isis Amlak, the chair of Edge…

The Black Panther Greens were a big pretty hit, so in the spirit of Ujima, to build and maintain our community together and to make our brother's and sister's problems our problems own  to solve them together…

As part of our evolving Christmas tradition at my mom's, sister and brother in law's house in MD, I make Black Panther Greens. This is a dish…

So, I am going to be expanding what I write about here at Hillombo. The Hill District has been my home for 20 + years as a place to be a part of a physical Black community and to bring to ground the ideas of Black Studies…

Shootings as an ongoing epidemic and the ravaged lives it leaves in its wake, continues to be a festering, untreated, disease in the Hill District…

This past Sunday I was able to catch the second half of a talk given by an artist named Rick Lowe at the Open Engagement Conference held here this past weekend…

This post has been sitting for a second, but I've been a little distracted. It is written in protest of the confidentiality component of the recently launched (March 30th) Hill District Development Review Panel…

Very productive Arts Plan meeting sponsored by the Hill District Consensus Group last week, March 17th. I am on the steering committee along with Tanika Harris…

Rolling again on the Hill District Consensus Group Arts Plan! Meeting this Tuesday at 6 pm at the Hill House Kaufmann Program Center. One of the things we'll discuss is what…

These kinds of white voices will stimulate thought and justice in the development conversations about the Hill District. While I believe this is piece is written by a white person and is about…

The Peoples Institute for Survival and Beyond (PISAB) has the best definition of ‘race”. Period. Dot. Came across it again today while doing my homework assignment (See prior post.). See it below…

With the movie Selma out and research I’ve been doing for a few other projects, I’ve had a chance to learn, think and talk about the Civil Rights Movement and the business of philanthropy…

I recently read Everything I Never Told You by Pittsburgher/Ohioan, Celeste Ng, who grew up here and in Shaker Heights, OH. The story is set in a small, all-white town in Ohio…

So the last post was on the Edge Fund and what that might look like in the Hill District. This post gives some specifics on the process, dollars awarded and the kinds of programs that received…

Today, I am thankful for the model and extensive documentation of the England based Edge Fund. At the end of this post is a link to a post from this funding body titled, "How We Make Decisions"…

Take two after losing the post I wrote last night. Last night, The Hill District Community Development Corporation (The Hill CDC) had a community meeting focused on two subjects…

I was just at my sister's and brother-in-law's apartment in Brooklyn, NY and so was in one of the most talked about places in the country when it comes to gentrification, so I will try to avoid…

Alright, let's get back in the saddle here. Hillombo has sat idle while I have taken to posting more stuff on fb, writing a blog…

A couple of weeks ago, the Hill District Consensus Group (for whom my wife works, I am a supporter and the organization I work for, The Heinz Endowments, is a funder) held…