How Professional Athletes Wind Up Broke

What the hell happened here? Seven floors above the iced-over Dallas North Tollway, Raghib (Rocket) Ismail is revisiting the question. It’s December, and Ismail is sitting in the boardroom of Chapwood Investments, a wealth management firm, his white Notre Dame snow hat pulled down to his furrowed brow.

In 1991 Ismail, a junior wide receiver for the Fighting Irish, was the presumptive No. 1 pick in the NFL draft. Instead he signed with the CFL’s Toronto Argonauts for a guaranteed $18.2 million over four years, then the richest contract in football history. But today, at a private session on financial planning attended by eight other current or onetime pro athletes, Ismail, 39, indulges in a luxury he didn’t enjoy as a young VIP: hindsight.

Historian and Scholar John Hope Franklin Dies

John Hope Franklin, a towering scholar and pioneer of African-American studies who wrote the seminal text on the black experience in the U.S. and worked on the landmark Supreme Court case that outlawed public school segregation, died Wednesday. He was 94.

New York Looking To Repeal Remaining Rockefeller Drug Laws

ALBANY — Gov. David A. Paterson and New York legislative leaders have reached an agreement to dismantle much of what remains of the state’s strict 1970s-era drug laws, once among the toughest in the nation.

The HAA Top Ten List: Movies Every Bourgie Black Person Should Have Seen

You know how it starts.  You’re at work, someone’s having a birthday party and they ask a coworker if they want some cake… Then you think, “Annie Mae, eat the damn cake!”… We’ve all been there.  One minute, you’re trying to make it through the day as a corporate schlock, the next, you’re fighting your [...]

The HAA Presents: You Might Be A Bamma If Pt. 1

You’re wearing this:
In our countinuing quest to debammafy Black America, it has come to the attention of the Hillman Alumni Association that AC Green has launched a new line of men’s suits and that his suits are unacceptable (check out the whole shitty collection here: www.acgreencollection.com).  First of all, the fact that you would want [...]