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I seldom walk through the streets with my gaze directed down. I rarely search the ground looking for people laying around. I’ve traveled internationally and

After many fruitless and frustrating months of trying to hunt down a job, Linda Taylor is in need of her own personal stimulus package. Most

First there was Essence magazine. Then there was Black Entertainment Television. Now Ebony magazine, the nation’s oldest and largest African American-oriented monthly publication, is looking

BET would not have survived its turbulent beginning without Michael Jackson, says station CEO Debra Lee. In the 1980s, Black Entertainment Television was a fledgling

Congressional Black Caucus members expressed dismay and disgust at the unprecedented levels of hate being hurled at President Barack Obama. Yet no one from the

President Barack Obama took a few swings at the most ardent opponents of presidency and health care policy Saturday night, delighting the 4,000-strong throng at

Washington, D.C. – President Barack Obama’s domestic policy adviser, Melody Barnes, told an overflowing audience at the Congressional Black Caucus conference that America will never

On a spirited Thursday evening, actor and community activist Blair Underwood and Eric Holder, the first African American U.S. Attorney General were among the honorees

Washington, D.C. – Hollywood heartthrob Blair Underwood and U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder were among those honored during the Thurgood Marshall College Fund Awards reception

Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Maxine Waters, D-Calif., told Congressional Black Caucus convention attendees that they might finally be winning a decades-long war to eradicate mandatory

Due to the recession, educators and parents are seeing more and more African American college students becoming overwhelmed by college costs — ultimately deferring their

The city of Detroit is going to be completely broke within a matter of days. The manufacturing capitol of America now is perilously close to

The Congressional Black Caucus’ 39th Annual Legislative Conference in Washington will focus on President Obama’s contentiously debated health care reform initiative, among a plethora of

“I didn’t know what we were going to do…I had to leave my house and take my kids up to my sister’s [house].” That was the

It’s been 62 years since Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball. If Robinson were alive today, he would be amazed at

Author/journalistDream Hampton (2 tweets)I was in my Brooklyn Brownstone where I lived with no tv. People who worked downtown were crossing the bridge by foot

Kanye West has brought a significant amount of heat to a second-consecutive presidency. Kanye West’s blatantly rude interruption of country singer Taylor Swift’s award acceptance

Is The Health Care Protest An Excuse To Be Racist?

Cuban-American designer Narciso Rodriguez who designed the dress Michelle Obama wore on election night and the ethereal slip dress for Carolyn Bessette when she wed

Film Heartthrob Patrick Swayze Dies Of Cancer At 57.