Congress Must Fix Healthcare at its Pace, not Trump’s. For once, Democrat Party vindictiveness helped the American people. They wouldn’t vote their own stay of execution if granted by President Donald Trump. Fortunately, they, with the Freedom Caucus...
Monthly Archive:: March 2017
MY LAST CONVERSATION WITH BILL

I will never forget my last conversation with Bill; it was the last time I saw him. Over the years, I have thought about that brief interaction. I wish it had come sooner. I wish it had played out...
POLITICS ON THE SET

When I worked on The Cosby Show, I wasn’t politically active. However, I was opinionated and then as now, I had a very big mouth. Somehow, I avoided politics on the set…almost. One of the fun things about working...
ON THE SET WITH BILL

Being on the set with Bill was always an adventure. Bill’s genius as an actor and a comedian was why I was so very nervous, when in December of my first season, the writers had Martin spending the entire...
WORKING WITH A GENIUS

Bill Cosby is a Genius. He is also a very funny fellow! That is usually my response when asked what it was like working with Bill. There really is no other way to put it: Working on the show...
DE-FUND MY ALMA MATER

I have stood by and with my alma mater, the University of Maryland, through numerous trials and tribulations – the tragic 1986 drug-induced death of All-American basketball player Len Bias the summer between my sophomore and junior years, sex...
SOUL FOOD FOR BLACK HISTORY MONTH

Controversy surrounding schools serving soul food for black history month.
RESPONSE TO STEVE HARVEY CRITICS

Here is my response to those folks who criticized Steve Harvey for taking a meeting with the President of the United States.
THE COSBY SHOW FINALE

The contradiction between how I was treated behind the scenes on the Cosby Show and how I was treated away from the show was never more clear, or more true than during the Cosby Show finale. That Martin Kendall was...
ABSOLUTE SCRUBBINESS

My complete and utter scrubbiness, my absolute expendability, was made crystal clear to me toward the end of my second season on the show. One of the good things that came from my staying out of my dressing closet,...
AND THE WINNER ISN’T…

La La Land a.k.a. Hollywood, a.k.a. the land of gentrified hypocrisy. In the category of “Most deliciously ironic moment of the entire Oscars,” the winner is – oh, wait, it’s a tie: the moment when the so-called Hollywood...
SCRUB STATUS CONFIRMED

There were a few major slights, but mostly it was a parade of little things that confirmed my scrub status. For instance, there was the day one of the guys on the set refused to get me water. I...