Kirsten West Savali

On the surface, Ron Artest and Jennifer Hudson have nothing in common -- besides sharing melanin content. Still, with the former growing up in the notorious Queensbridge Houses in Queens, New York and the latter growing up in the war zone of Southside Chicago, the media is approaching both of...

I don't like Steve Harvey -- yes, I said it.

To be more precise, since I've never met the man personally, I don't like what Steve Harvey represents.

There is an arrogance -- a barely sheathed tone of alpha-male superiority that permeates everything he spews from politics to...

When Rev. Al Sharpton attempted to get Rep. Tim Huelskamp (R-Kansas) to truthfully examine fairness in our tax code in a heated exchange on his MSNBC show, Politics Nation, he clumsily dodged the issue at each opportunity.

Building on President Barack Obama's State of the Union...

Third grade math is not normally the course where students are taught about beating slaves and dehumanizing labor, but two teachers at Beaver Ridge Elementary School in Atlanta thought it was a perfectly normal integration.

Chris Braxton told Fox 5 Atlanta that his son came home from school Friday afternoon...

President Barack Obama's policies do not reflect his gratitude to the U.S. government for considering him human, and former Republican Senator Rick Santorum has decided to put him in his place.

In an interview with CNS News, the senator voiced his absolute disbelief that Obama would dare support...

While sitting under the hair dryer Friday afternoon, I grabbed a stack of magazines that were haphazardly scattered on the small table to my right and began sifting through them for suitably mindless, I-work-hard-all-week-so-let-me-catch-up-with-fashion-and-entertainment chatter.

Apparently, the Universe decided that a mind was a terrible thing to waste because featured...

Growing up in an African Methodist Episcopal household as a child (A.M.E. shout out to Richard Allen!), the annual Christmas program was a huge deal. From the flowing red gowns of the female choir members to the gold candles illuminating the sanctuary in a warm glow, the soaring...

"Politically correct" is a term that gets tossed around with more frequency than a groupie at a Hip-Hop after party.

No? That wasn't funny?

Well someone, somewhere, thinks it's hilarious -- and true, and therein lies the crux of the ambivalence surrounding political correctness.

Let's be clear: Politically incorrect is...

President Barack Obama is a man who possesses knowledge in abundance and common sense in spades. While I rarely agree with his political machinations, I will concede that his commercial savvy and ability to capitalize on the obsession that many people have with him has been pure strategic poetry --...

Abraham Lincoln once said, "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."

My father, Theodore Joseph "Bubber" West, was blessed with both in abundance. As a business owner, civic leader and city alderman for over seventeen years,...

From wild conspiracy theories surrounding Planned Parenthood founder, Margaret Sanger, and her subscription to eugenics, to conservative anti-choice organizations vilifying the wombs of African-American children from Atlanta to Oakland, the termination of a pregnancy is an intimate decision that continues to be examined, judged and defended...

Music is the weapon of the future - Fela Anikulapo-Kuti (October 15, 1938 - August 2, 1997)

Born into the violent bloodshed and political upheaval of an Africa at war with herself, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti (He who emanates greatness, who has control over death and who cannot be killed by man)...