8 Dapper Dons Who Were Made in the Past
Let's face it, men of the former years had exceptional taste. Heading out for a stroll down Madison Avenue called for a double-breasted jacket, titled...
Let's face it, men of the former years had exceptional taste. Heading out for a stroll down Madison Avenue called for a double-breasted jacket, titled...
The Huffington Post | Kathleen Miles | Posted 04.11.2012
"Somebody cut him down for no reason... As long as I've got life in my body I'm going to find out what happened to my son." These are the words of ...
Danielle Moss Lee | Posted 05.26.2012
Bold action is required. Public policy must be changed. Laws must be rewritten. There must be accountability. Hoodies are good for today, but what's next? What happens tomorrow?
Benjamin Todd Jealous | Posted 05.26.2012
All of last week, I was in Sanford, Florida, pursuing justice for Trayvon Martin. I listened to community concerns about the Sanford Police Department, and stood with Trayvon's parents and 30,000 others in Sanford, a town with only 50,000 residents.
Erica Watson | Posted 05.14.2012
I am so tired of black men writing dating advice books for black women! I love all of the amazing men in my life, but many of them do not know how to...
The Huffington Post | Kathleen Massara | Posted 01.17.2012
As we celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, it's important to remember that we still have a long way to go in the fight against racial discrimination...
Dr. Boyce Watkins | Posted 02.18.2012
I was born to a 17-year old single mother in a housing project in Louisville, Ky. I struggled through elementary, middle and high school. I was, in the words of Forbes Magazine columnist Gene Marks, a "poor black kid."
Ronald B. Robinson | Posted 02.04.2012
For a sustained period, Cain was the GOP candidate who most successfully stimulated the nostalgia for the good ole days of the "great communicator," Ronald Reagan, among "the base."
LaVar Young | Posted 02.04.2012
The gap in achievement between black males and their white counterparts isn't news -- it's common knowledge, generally accepted, and only sometimes bemoaned. So why aren't we more alarmed?
Turnstyle | Posted 01.09.2012
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Posted 10.13.2011
More black men are behind bars or under the watch of the criminal justice system than there were enslaved in 1850, according to the author of a book a...
Dr. Boyce Watkins | Posted 08.23.2011
Hallmark's decision to create a Father's Day card for black women engages in the act of celebrating a dysfunction, increasing the likelihood that the dysfunction eventually becomes as acceptable as the normal state of affairs.
Rebecca Carroll | Posted 11.17.2011
Despite the hope, as a parent raising a black son in a country very presently immersed in the horrific beauty of racial change and evolution, I am careful to remind him that there are still fences.
Kelly Kleiman | Posted 05.25.2011
The volume of reproach and disappointment and disapproval and correction directed at Coach Lovie Smith and the President says nothing about their leadership ability.
Philip N. Cohen | Posted 11.17.2011
An in-depth look at how some Black men see their marriages. Research on marriage trends, and the reasons behind them, tends to focus on the decline i...
Derrick K. Baker | Posted 05.25.2011
Is anyone seriously considering the indelible, eternal and global messages Tyler Perry's films are sending about black men?
Zack Isaacs | Posted 05.25.2011
Instead of talking about the problem, I want to be part of the solution. I pledge to be that black nerd who shows young men that there's a world outside of music and sports.
Irene Monroe | Posted 05.25.2011
Whether used as an expletive or term of endearment, what is it about this word that captures the rage and shame of the American public?
Charles D. Ellison | Posted 05.25.2011
The title of your Washington Post column from Wednesday ("Obama: Our first female president," 6.30.10) was a bit misleading at first glance. Before c...
Lola Adesioye | Posted 11.17.2011
The mainstream media is taking a keen interest in our love lives. We are being told there's a crisis amongst black women, particularly educated professionals, who are unable to find a 'decent' black man.
Cocoa Popps | Posted 11.17.2011
If more black men received the emotional support they needed, the landscape of the black male mind, and therefore the black community would be transformed.
Jenee Darden | Posted 05.25.2011
Folan encourages other black women to explore a new flavor of love in her book Don't Bring Home a White Boy: And Other Notions that Keep Black Women from Dating Out.
Zack Isaacs | Posted 05.25.2011
My friend Reggis Washington was the latest Chicago Public Schools student to be killed as a result of gun violence.
Newsweek | Posted 05.25.2011
Recent research published in The New England Journal of Medicine shows that within certain populations in America, the prevalence of HIV-infected peop...
Michelle Alexander | Posted 05.25.2011
Here's a hint for all those still scratching their heads about those missing black fathers: Look in prison.
styleblazer.com | Posted 05.19.2012