Putting a presidential seal on a celebration that has been practiced annually in the black community for decades, President Barack Obama officially proclaims June 2010
President Barack Obama visited the Grand Isle, L.A. on Friday to asses the damage and clean up efforts from the catastrophic BP oil spill. During
Deliberately controversial talk show host, Bill O’Reilly, has allowed his lips to flap loosely, yet again. During a conversation with a black professor about immigration,
A vast majority of African Americans are deliberating the fact that we may not need each other anymore. That we might want to erase the
This week, eight individuals accused of illegally accessing the student Loan records of President Obama pleaded not guilty in U.S. District Court. They are charged
The recent focus on immigration, whether legal or illegal, has also drawn our attention to the real safety concerns that many have regarding securing our
Money, drugs and intimidation have created a state of emergency in Kingston, Jamaica. Two police officers and four civilians have been killed after the country’s
His is not a Shakespearean tragedy. But when Detroit Judge David Groner slapped former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick with a five-year sentence for violating the terms
A history teacher in rural Georgia was suspended after she allowed four white students to wear Ku Klux Klan outfits in a so-called “historical reenactment”.
“The best way to destroy a people is to take away their ability to reproduce themselves.” –Boyz N the Hood And the best way to
Not only does Republican National Committee Chairman Michael S. Steele lack political instinct, common sense and a notable presence, his 6-foot-4 frame, is also devastatingly
The U.S. Congress decided this week to expand the FBI’s DNA database. Last Tuesday, May 18, the House voted 357 to 32 to support legislation
The Texas State Board of Education has finished its revamping and re-writing of the curriculum that will be taught at all levels of primary and
Sunny days seem to come our way, and yet we can’t see life as it really does playThe sun does shine when it’s gray tooBut
HR-40, the Commission to Study Reparation Proposals for African Americans Act was first proposed in 1989 by Michigan House of Representative John Conyers. Every year
Gil Scott-Heron wrote the celebrated, militant poem “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised.” The title, which has become a popular mantra, means that thinking is
As the nation continues to crawl its way out of the economic quicksand that sunk the entire globe into a fiscal depression, Minister Louis Farrakhan
Given the pressing economic plight of the U.S. economy and the exorbitant rates of unemployment, foreclosures and bank failures, the Obama administration and the members
You be the expert. Listen to singer John Legend’s spin on why people, black children specifically, value white or light skin over darker hues, then
Patrons at a bar in West Allis, Wis., displayed their true racist attitudes by burning an effigy of President Barack Obama. The patrons at the
