Just weeks after receiving an honorary doctorate in education from the University of the Free State in South Africa, Oprah Winfrey has now announced plans
Thus far, in the New World, African Americans have been able to survive the voyage during the Middle Passage, slavery, lynchings, Jim Crow and second-class citizenship in America.
While much of the nation is in an uproar over Casey Anthony’s verdict, the injustice continues to occur in America. Tyell Morton could spend nearly
It’s safe to say that most of us love to hear of a success story of someone who came from nothing and made something of
Five members of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. had a dream to erect a memorial, among presidents on the National Mall, to, posthumously, honor their
Several days after MSNBC suspended host Mark Halperin for calling President Barack Obama a “d***,” radio host Tom Joyner decided to confront two of the
On the last day of this year’s Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) America meeting, President Clinton announced that, when fully funded and implemented, over 50 initiatives
Organizers of the march on the Georgia State Capitol initially thought 2,000 to 5,000 participants would show up on Saturday, July 2. They were off
For many African Americans, urban life and living in a city is commonplace. We are well aware of the risks related to safety but, now,
Some probably really are; others may be victims of what are similar to witch hunts.
Bishop Eddie L. Long, pastor of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church Bishop Eddie Long accuser, Jamal Parris, 24, was arrested yesterday in Miami on drug
This week, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported some interesting findings in its 2010: American Time Use Survey (ATUS). The survey data include the
President Obama was characterized as behaving like “a d—” by an editor of Time magazine on the right-wing show “Morning Joe,” an egregious gaffe that
President Obama put the Republican Congress on blast, saying that if they do not agree to raise the $14.3 trillion tax ceiling, the country will
Jesse Jackson Jr. may soon face the greatest threat to his congressional seat of his lengthy political career. In the wake of Illinois Gov. Rod
“Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we
It’s not unusual for those who are in dire need to live by street ethics. Desperate people will do whatever it takes to survive —
On the day of Oscar Grant‘s mother’s settlement with BART for $1.3 million dollars, NYPD apparently finds no problem with beating several people and threatening
Blagojevich was stunned by the verdict.
President Obama’s presidency has been such a colossal disaster for African Americans that he will lose scores of black voters next year, so says Republican
