For 40 years, ever since Nixon's law-and-order agenda gave the impetus, the trend in social policy has been skewed to eliminate compassion and focus entirely on rule breaking.
Hermene Hartman | Posted 04.30.2012
What happened? Who is to blame for this increase in racism? Is it still 2012 or did somebody turn the clock backwards? What happened to the progress? What happened to the change of attitudes?
Network Awesome | Posted 04.13.2012
The man they once called "the Black Walt Disney" doesn't even have a Wikipedia page and the collected clips of his original work on YouTube don't even add up to seven full minutes, but the scant few items of substance that Google can come up with tell a fascinating story.
Mike Green | Posted 05.08.2012
Whenever someone thinks they have few bullet points of supreme wisdom that can save the world, sane people instantly roll their eyes. The insanely cur...
Christian Finnegan | Posted 03.18.2012
So yesterday was Martin Luther King Day and now that we White Folks are done patting ourselves on the back for our enlightened views on Race, I'd like to take a moment to cop to the hypocrisy of it all.
Jim Luce | Posted 03.17.2012
I have been privileged to visit two "Untouchable" villages while here on pilgrimage in India -- the first about four miles outside Bodh Gaya in Bihar province, and the other about four hours south of here, in the village of Dumri in Jharkhand province.
Dr. Tukufu Zuberi | Posted 03.13.2012
I recently visited an art exhibit chronicling the legacy of art in Black Los Angeles. The show is called "Now Dig This! Art & Black Los Angeles 1960-1980, " and I sat down to speak with the curator of the exhibit, Kellie Jones. Here's the second part of that conversation.
Dr. Tukufu Zuberi | Posted 03.10.2012
I recently visited an art exhibit chronicling the legacy of art in Black Los Angeles. The show is at the UCLA Hammer Museum and is called "Now Dig This! Art & Black Los Angeles 1960-1980." I sat down to speak with the curator of the exhibit, Kellie Jones.
Juanita Moore | Posted 01.16.2012
African-American art has been and can continue to be a catalyst in Detroit, home to many of the country's largest and most significant individually owned African-American art collections.
Mike Green | Posted 12.05.2011
What if Zuckerberg had challenged innovative Black entrepreneurs across the nation, rather than students, to compete for 1,000 cash prizes of $100000 each?
John I. Gilderbloom | Posted 11.10.2011
Foreclosures continue to devastate millions of families and the communities in which they live. But it is not reckless or greedy homeowners who are the problem.
Janet Langhart Cohen | Posted 10.21.2011
Lke Dr. King, we have not yet arrived in the Promised Land. Yes, there's a black man in the White House. Barack Obama is there as President of the United States. But one man doesn't erase the persistence of racism in America and its grim consequences.
Michael Steele | Posted 10.04.2011
African-Americans' 21st century reality is simply this: it's time to stand for something different. The debate we're having is no longer productive. It's time for solutions that come from us, from within our house, our family and ultimately our community as a whole.
Mike Green | Posted 06.20.2011
It is time for Black America to invest in developing a private capital equity investment infrastructure and a high-growth entrepreneurial ecosystem.
Mike Green | Posted 06.05.2011
Investing in high-growth companies creates jobs while generating more wealth for investors. The formula has worked for the private venture capital investment community. Unfortunately, no such active community exists in black America.
HuffingtonPost.com | Peter S. Goodman | Posted 05.25.2011
The latest snapshot of the American job market, released by the Labor Department on Friday, confirms what most ordinary people already knew without ne...
Mike Green | Posted 05.25.2011
Preserving the iconic headquarters of Ebony-Jet has become a common focus of numerous debates. Some believe a part of Black American history is being sold.
Mike Green | Posted 05.25.2011
The crisis pointed to by the Council of Great City Schools has a reverberating impact upon the future of Black America and our ability to be productive and competitive in the Age of Innovation.
Irene Monroe | Posted 05.25.2011
For Colored Girls is not only for colored girls because it offers a pathway to self-growth, finding our authentic power, and discovering the divine in one's self.
Mike Green | Posted 05.25.2011
When unemployment in Black America topped 16 percent and Black teen unemployment skyrocketed to an outrageous 45 percent this summer, the voices of ou...
Kevin Powell | Posted 05.25.2011
What armchair critics of Barack Obama fail to grasp, in historical terms, is that it has always been the people, not the person in the White House, who pushed our nation forward.
Mike Green | Posted 05.25.2011
"How do you hide important information from a Black man?" my friend asked. "Put it in a book." It was one of many such jokes I would be told by Whi...
Mike Green | Posted 05.25.2011
There's an economic crisis of monumental proportions occurring in Black America. The challenges stretch across a vast spectrum of education, unemploym...
Mike Green | Posted 05.25.2011
There is a crisis occurring in 12.3% of the American population, otherwise known as Black America. The crumbling economic infrastructure of the natio...
BlackAndBrownNews | Posted 05.25.2011
As a Black woman in America, I have never known a time in my life when I have felt more unsafe, vulnerable and unprotected. This acute sense of insecu...
Deepak Chopra | Posted 05.07.2012