Al Sharpton said it best: "Michael Jackson made culture accept a person of color. Way before Tiger Woods, way before Oprah Winfrey, way before Barack Obama, Michael did with music what they later did in sports, in politics and in television."

If there is such a thing as 'post-racial', Jackson...

As I write, I am enraged... Enraged at the Pope who, while on his current trip to Africa has made a pronouncement that condoms could make the HIV/Aids situation in Africa worse. He claims that: "[AIDS] cannot be overcome by the distribution of condoms. On the contrary, they increase the...

Chris Brown has withdrawn his name as a Nickelodeon Kid's Choice award nominee after 10,000 people signed an online petition criticizing Nickelodeon for keeping him on the nominees list despite charges against him for assaulting Rihanna. Perhaps unfortunately for Brown, the public is speaking out, and saying that they will...

On Saturday, I'm off to Washington DC -- along with millions of others -- to watch Barack Obama inaugurated as America's first African-American president. The gravity of such an occasion is not lost on any of us, regardless of race or nationality and we are all looking forward to seeing...

During the presidential campaign and since his election, Obama has shown himself to be a reflective and contemplative type. He is certainly not one prone to hasty judgments or reactionary behavior.

At many times during the campaign when he was called on to respond to a comment made by...

Whilst marking their ballot boxes in favour of Barack Obama last Tuesday, 70% of African American voters in California -- just one of the states that have passed Proposition 8 -- also marked their ballot boxes against gay marriage.

With African-Americans turning out in record numbers last week to...

Whilst Americans wait with baited breath to see how Sarah Palin will perform against Joe Biden in the vice presidential debate tonight, I'm in no doubt that she'll do just fine.

For a start, the debates here are more akin to Q&A sessions. I say that coming from the impressive...

Since last week when Sarah Palin was announced as the Republican Party's Vice Presidential candidate, a thick fog has descended upon all of us. This disorientating and distracting haze has had us all discussing Palin's family, her daughter's pregnancy, her credentials and the various scandals she may and may not...

In my last post, I wrote that Obama needed to do a few things in Denver:

1) He must go way beyond the abstract and rhetoric and bring himself firmly back down to earth, by talking not only about hope and change but specifically addressing key concerns -- the economy,...

As Barack Obama steps onto the stage at the Invesco Field stadium in front of 76,000 people he can be sure that Republicans, still unconvinced Hillary Clinton supporters, conservative media, independent voters and all those who still believe him to be an unpatriotic Muslim with a strange name will be...