It's about time Bill Maher responded to Wayne Brady. Not because he owes Brady any sort of explanation or apology for his previous jokes about Brady supposedly lacking black male fortitude. Maher needs to respond because he has never been reticent to respond to the likes of a Donald Trump...

1991, Rev. Jesse Jackson asked the question "is hip hop music educating or eroding young minds."

1992, the Parents Music Resource Center was instrumental in applying public pressure and forcing rapper Ice-T to recall his album and remove the song "Cop Killer" from it. Various law...

Saturday on The Mo'Kelly Show on KFI AM640, I previewed the highly-anticipated findings of the "Growth and Opportunity" project by the GOP. It is estimated that 71 percent of Latinos, 73 percent of Asians and 93 percent of African-Americans voted for President Obama last November.

Those numbers quantify what we...

Spike Lee doesn't need my help to defend him, but he does deserve our gratitude and respect.

I remember watching Pulp Fiction for the first time. I thoroughly enjoyed the movie, if not loved it. It is fair to characterize it as a classic piece of American cinema. But that...

Some fights you must fight... on principle alone. This would be one of them.

This fight is about having standards, knowing when television programming has in fact gone too far or finally found the basement. The effect and impact of stereotypes can not be denied, from the generalities of racial...

Some would say the recent altercation at the BET Hip-Hop Awards was just the latest embarrassment to befall hip-hop, an oft criticized slice of pop culture...and they would be correct.  It's the "latest" incident, not an aberration.  It's more behavior deserving of more criticism, only to fall on deaf...

Acknowledge its first female members... yes.  Celebrate it... absolutely not. 

Just because Augusta National admitted its first two female members, it is not by any means a reason to celebrate. Let's not confuse "historic" with admirable. 

Augusta National first opened its doors in 1932.  It saw WWII, the...

Depending on whom you ask, Wayne Brady should or should not have taken exception to being used as fodder for the "non-threatening Black man" joke. Also depending on whom you ask, the oft-used joke by Bill Maher should be considered less of an insult and more a compliment, in that...

Amid all of the primary conversation of whether Atlanta megachurch pastor Creflo Dollar put his hands on his 15-year old daughter (and to what extent); the secondary conversation has been mostly concerned with the concept of physical discipline of children. You have the ardent Dollar supporters who support him regardless...

In this 24-hour news cycle, ostensibly we should be inundated with more news, information and substantive analysis, which would provide a solid foundation to measure the performance of politicians.

Instead, we seem to get bogged down in soundbite minutia, to the point we miss the obvious.

For example, when President...

"It's not about the crimes or even the criminals. It's about how both affect the characters...how they react to them. There is truth in their reactions."

The tweets were likely fleeting in nature, consistent with how the multitude of us use Twitter to socially interact. Momentary thoughts, ephemeral emotions...140 character snapshots of one's conscience. CNN commentator Roland Martin has come under fire for two tweets during the Super Bowl which GLAAD argued were homophobic...

Hopefully, African-American cinema will mature right along with her.

Keke Palmer is far too composed for only having been on this Earth for 18 years.  She's avoided scandal despite matriculating from child to fully-grown film star, a rarity to be...

The Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) has been struggling as of late. That's not breaking news. Desperate times call for desperate measures and that too is not breaking news. You can best be sure, OWN executives made the announcement of targeting African-American viewers as a weather balloon, a message in the...

Dear Tyler Perry,

I have never been concerned with gaining favor with celebrities or undeservedly denigrating one's work. I have always prided myself on putting my community first, even when doing so has been unpopular and frankly unappreciated by members of that same community.

So understand that my letter to...

These are just some observations from my little hole in the wall. I just want to see how closely folks out there have been paying attention to the political discourse of recent months. Take away from these notes scribbled on the chalk board whatever you want; just know they are...

In dating, there is an old axiom which says that if you want to know whether someone is marriage material, watch how s/he treats family. It may be nice that someone has taken personal interest in you; but what's more important is how they treat others, unrelated to their particular...

Students of political history already know the story of the late Senator Ted Kennedy in 1979. Others like Mo'Kelly are old enough to simply remember it. For everyone else, it goes a little something like this. Democratic party discontent with President Jimmy Carter for all things ranging from the American...

Let's go Michele Bachmann! Push 'em out, shove 'em out... WAYYYYY OUT!

Yes, you read that correctly. Congresswoman Michele Bachmann's Iowa Straw Poll victory wasn't only great news for the Bachmann campaign, it was also tremendous news for the Sarah Palin "campaign." Which a priori is wonderful news for President...

There's an old saying which admonishes us to "take care of home first." There's another which says "know which side your bread is buttered." Or how about, "dance with who brung ya." All of them offer the same general pearls of wisdom; knowing where your true support base resides and...