U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton blocked parts of Arizona’s controversial immigration law from taking effect, siding with the Obama administration, which filed the legal challenge.
After four long years of waiting and hoping for a just outcome in the tragic police shooting death of Sean Bell in November of 2006,
We hope the Congress of the United States doesn’t break its collective arm trying to pat itself on the back. The vast disparities in sentencing
For those of you who are all up in arms about the fact that Essence magazine hired a white fashion director, I have three words:
10. “Lost One-*REMIX* … *2010 collabo with Elin Woods, Sandra Bullock, Garcelle Beauvais and Shaunie O’Neal. 9. “I Used To Love Him, (aww f–k it!)…
These are perilous economic and political times in the nation and Detroit, and the last thing Detroit can afford is on-the-job training. This is definitely
As a child, before I would go to bed each night, I remember my mother saying, “Night Night — don’t let the bedbugs bite. We
For decades America’s secondary educational system has been slowly sinking when compared to European and Asian nations. A new study supports this and implies that
BP, the scourge of American politics and the Gulf Coast environmental community, first saved tens of millions of dollars by taking dangerous shortcuts in safety
Politics can be reduced to a game of he said she said with the gender specific pronouns being replaced by the nouns Democrats and Republicans.
Despite the fact that our community is perpetually besieged by multiplicity of social ills, there is a tragic sense of apathy — if not antipathy
Ask the average person what countries border Afghanistan, they probably couldn’t tell you. But ask the same person what professional Athletes or entertainers have their
Elizabeth Hasselbeck is probably busy sharpening her razor tongue in preparations for a visit of presidential proportions. That’s because the White House has officially announced
This past month, a historic first occurred in Russia. Jean Gregoire Sagbo, a 48-year-old from the West African country of Benin, became the first black
I looked upon the regal visage of former Black Panther Party leader Kathleen Cleaver as she spoke at the opening of the Freedom Sisters Exhibit
I looked upon the regal visage of former Black Panther Party leader Kathleen Cleaver as she spoke at the opening of the Freedom Sisters Exhibit
Hate him or love him, there’s a lot that can be learned from President Barack Obama. So while the media (Fox News especially) is working
After months-long political posturing and stalemate by Republicans, President Barack Obama signed a six-month extension of emergency jobless benefits for the long-term unemployed on Thursday.
Wow! What’s up with our city governments? First, no more toilet paper in Newark, N.J., and now the city council of Oakland, Calif., approved measures that
Two proud British Nigerian parents gave birth to a white baby. Yes, a blond hair, blue eyed child. The stunned black dad of a newborn,
