Sarah Palin has a new book. In the book she ignores the fact that for a good deal of her political career, she was a member of or closely affiliated with a radical secessionist Alaskan political party known as the...

After the recent Fort Hood shootings, right wing pundits are calling for Muslims in the military to be investigated and in some cases barred from the military. While we're at it we should investigate right wing white extremists too, as they cause a threat to our country.

What is ironic...

Here's a music video I did last year with students that I used to teach. Many of the students I taught were involved in gangs. When I saw Derrion Albert being killed...

The right wing is launching an attack on ACORN. Not because ACORN is a corrupt or a negative organization, but because ACORN stands for things that they oppose. ACORN involves itself in issues such as making housing affordable for working class people, living wages for poor and working class people,...

Last Friday was the 8th anniversary of 9/11. The previous week was the 4th anniversary of Katrina. While the media covered a lot of the 9/11 memorials, concerts and memories, it seemed as if the legacy of Katrina got very little attention. Both events have had a great impact on...

One interesting thing about the whole Skip Gates Scandal, is the part in the police report where Gates reportedly told Sergeant Crowley, "I'll speak to your mama outside." Recently, TMZ caught up with Skip Gates and asked him if he had any good "Yo Mama" jokes. Since I'm...

What Do You Call A Black Man At Harvard?

Years ago, the answer to this question would be the n-word. Today it's Esquire, Doctor, Congressman, Professor or President. Unfortunately, the police in Cambridge did not receive that memo before they arrested Harvard Professor, Skip Gates, as he was treated as...

Peace out Sarah. We knew you all too well. Pretty sure you're about to investigated as well you should have. Here's a video I did before the election on how Sarah Palin would be if she were black. Would she have received all the right wing praise from Limbaugh and...

There was a tragedy at Harvard last month. The tragedy wasn't that Harvard's bubble was tainted by violence. The tragedy wasn't that two African American females at Harvard weren't able to graduate.

The tragedy was that the life of a young man with a great spirit and great...

Happy Birthday Malcolm

El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz

May 19, 1925 - February 21, 1965

Many people may see Malcolm X and Barack Obama as opposites of each other in the sphere of black political figures. While Malcolm pushed...

While Dick Cheney's endorsement of Rush Limbaugh might carry the weight of any other supervillain's endorsement, it is still significant. When Dick Cheney, still one of the most recognizable faces of the Republican Party, chose Rush Limbaugh over Colin Powell, he chose racism over service to your country,...

Before playing the Stanford team in the Final Four, UConn women's coach, Geno Auriemma, said people underestimated Stanford because they think white players are soft. More pointedly, he pointed out that his players, who are predominantly African-American, should be given the same respect for their discipline for which...

I didn't know that Presidents could fire CEOs but seeing how as the government is giving companies billions of dollars to companies, business leaders should be held accountable. Obama pressured GM CEO, Rick Wagoner to step down; here are five other CEOs he should consider firing.

1. Edward Liddy CEO...

Recently there has been a lot of controversy about the cops who have been killed in Oakland. In the comments on our story, some people seemed to gloat over the fact that cops were killed.

There is a difference between a cop killing an African American and an African American...

Barack Obama has been under a lot of criticism for his NCAA picks and his appearance on Leno. People have criticized him for spending too much time on his his NCAA picks and his Leno appearance while not focusing enough on the economy.

Anybody who's been...

Drugs are a serious problem in America but, unfortunately, so is the war on drugs. Drugs mess up peoples' lives, but not as much as the war on drugs where Blacks and Hispanics are scapegoated for America's problem. Despite the fact that studies show that Blacks and Whites use drugs...

A while back, Rush Limbaugh attempted to divide the party lines between Democrats for Hillary Clinton and those for Barack Obama. Limbaugh prayed for riots in the streets. As much as I wished that the recent CPAC conference would turn into a riot between racist Rush supporters and decent Republicans...

They say desperate times call for desperate measures and we are definitely in desperate times. The biggest problem about the US economy is that we don't make anything anymore. We closed the textile mills and now get our clothes from China, we get our electronic goods from Japan, our food...

When I first read the New York Post and saw the infamous cartoon stimulus monkey cartoon, it didn't immediately set off my internal racist radar. After talking to several people about it I realized that it was at best extremely insensitive and at worst blatantly racist.

The humor and...