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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.

Crack cocaine, welfare laws and the Vietnam War are blamed by actor and best-selling author Hill Harper for the erosion of the nucleus of the

That Congressman Joe Wilson was formally reprimanded yesterday in the Senate for “breach of decorum and degraded proceeding the joint session” of Congress is hardly

The Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke may have declared the recession is “very likely over” but the jobless recovery portends plenty of pain ahead. Try

South Carolina Congressman Joe “You Lie” Wilson is a demagogue, a man who wantonly and willfully incites racial passions to dangerously high levels. Other powerful

African American women in every corner of the country are enduring the compounded hardship of surviving in a desperate economic climate and caring for children

At the Atlanta Day Shelter for Women and Children, R&B star Musiq Soulchild was on a clear-cut mission to give more love. It was a

Students at the University of Maryland began to form a line outside the Comcast Center shortly after 4:30 a.m. to secure a seat at President

The past week has featured a bevy of big names behaving badly. Let’s review: Rep. Joe Wilson screams “You Lie!” at President Barack Obama as the

“Love it or leave it.” “He’s our president, like it or not, and we should support him.”“I don’t agree with everything he’s done, but he’s

Barack Obama. The name alone conjures up many emotions, both good and bad. Depending on whom you talk to, people either love the man; or

I attended my first baby shower last weekend, and I have to say it was the most unconventional event I’ve ever attended. There were more

It’s so important to be able to read. Traveling throughout the world — sans an airline ticket — and being able to see through the

Democratic Candidate for State Representative, 26th District When people rush to the polls this year to place their votes, choosing a candidate who has the best