Dr. James Peterson is an MSNBC contributor and director of Africana studies and sssociate professor of English at Lehigh University. While discussing the role of
Nathan McCall had long ago joined the ranks of very prominent black intellectuals, educators, legislators and civic leaders who are utterly repulsed by the unbridled
Vice President Joe Biden has always had that lovable lapdog vibe going on. He makes no bones about wanting to be loved and appreciated and
Atlanta City Council President Ceasar Mitchell, like most in the African American community, finds the growing pipeline of black males from high school to the
Today’s rising political stars differ distinctly from their predecessors. This wave of politicians are highly accomplished, very well-educated, fiercely independent and extremely eloquent outsiders who
Dr. Biko Baker is the executive director of The League of Young Voters education based in Milwaukee, Wis. Baker is a pioneer in running city level,
President Obama made an appearance at Rev. Al Sharpton’s 2014 National Action Network Conference in New York City this past week, giving remarks at the
“But even if we pass this bill the battle will not be over. What happened in Selma is part of a far larger movement which
Over the past several months, Dr. Cornel West has been vocal in his disapproval of President Barack Obama, as well as Dr. West’s fellow intellectuals
Jim DeMint, former South Carolina Congressman and Head of the Heritage Foundation seeks to rewrite the Civil War narrative. He stated that the Federal Government
Hillary Clinton was giving a speech to the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries in Las Vegas when a shoe barely missed her head. Security arrested
There are definite advantages to being advanced beyond retirement age. You can say pretty much say whatever you want; unfiltered, without apology, and without fear
“You’ve got to be kidding me.” That had to be one of the thoughts torpedoing through President Obama’s mind after his advisers informed him that
Rev. Al Sharpton has refused to duck despite having his perfectly coifed silver-and-black locks pelted relentlessly by a torrential downpour of insults after it was
Attorney General Eric Holder was the special guest speaker on the opening day of the Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network Conference in New York
Media outlets are acting as if equal pay for women is new to President Barack Obama’s agenda. We’re here to dispel the myth. The name
By all reports Jesse Jackson Jr., has been moved from a North Carolina federal prison where he was in solitary confinement to a minimum security prison
The very thought that the Rev. Al Sharpton would be a willing snitch for the government agency — J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI — that worked
Transgender activist Janet Mock has, of course, been all over the news over the past year for her impassioned fight for transgender awareness and rights.
President Barak Obama commemorated a horrible time in history known as the Rwandan Genocide which occurred in 1994. During the Rwandan Genocide between 800,000 to
