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Understanding The Police :From the NPM/PJ Archives

Posted by Peak Johnson on Feb 28, 2009 in Philly News, The North Philly Metropolis

                        On February 27, 2009, in a heated conversation about the issue of police deaths versus civilian deaths, the term “…punk ass cop” was mentioned in reference to the death of Officer Pawlowski. The young man who said this has a right to upset, [...]

 
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The Future Change: From The NPM/PJ Archives

Posted by Peak Johnson on Feb 28, 2009 in The North Philly Metropolis, peak and politics

                      The idea of reposting some of my most highlighted articles that appeared in the North Philly Metropolis came to me when visiting the innovative thinker, Damon C. Williams website. I didn’t think I was able to this at first, but after fooling around with Quark [...]

 
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Introducing…Louisa Tilaman

Posted by Peak Johnson on Feb 27, 2009 in Peak's Guest Writers

Louisa made her first debut as a contributor to the North Philly Metropolis in issue 12, the race and culture issue. Now the young lady makes her first guest appearance on peakjohnson.com, lucky me, hopefully they’ll be more of her writing to come. Can’t wait to read the book Louisa.   Hi, my name is Louisa and [...]

 
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More Media Bashing By Fox

Posted by Peak Johnson on Feb 18, 2009 in Misc., peak and politics

 The point that Montel Williams was trying to make during this time last year  clearly is that there are people dying everyday in Iraq. Though Fox and others are trying to stay focus on the fact pf the passing of Heath Ledger, because this is something that is bringing in more rightings. You even witness how at the end [...]

 
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B(R)ush

Posted by Peak Johnson on Feb 15, 2009 in peak and politics

This guy truly gets on my nerves, I believe that President Obama will succeed in places that others want him to fail. He’s in office and getting things done, when he makes a mistake he admits it, which is more than we can say about our previous president…what’s his name.

 
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The Philadelphia Public School Notebook

Posted by Peak Johnson on Feb 10, 2009 in Uncategorized

Recently I have had the chance to intern at the Philadelphia Public School Notebook, a newspaper that covers the educational issues that surround Philadelphia and beyond. Its a totally different atmosphere from when I worked with the North Philly Metropolis, since mostly what I wrote revolved around Project HOME and my articles were a bit opinionated [...]

 
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Can we really trust our media?

Posted by Peak Johnson on Feb 9, 2009 in Misc., peaks thoughts

Around last year was when I really started paying attention to the news or at least trying to stay up to date with what his happening in the world, so that I could ultimately write/blog and voice my concerns and opinions. Throughout the stations that promises to deliver the best on the spot news the [...]

 
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Fallen Hero(es)

Posted by Peak Johnson on Feb 5, 2009 in peaks thoughts

The incident involving olympic star Michael Phelps reminded me of an article I once wrote about another olympic star, Marion Jones. As it was stated within the article, Marion Jones was not just a role model but a symbol that African-American women can do anything that they put their minds to, with what has happened with [...]

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