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.
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
Bobby Brown is apparently tired of being painted as the villain in Whitney Houston’s spiral from musical goddess to crack addict — and he’s ready
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
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
