To mark the release of my new book Super Rich: A Guide To Having It All, I went on Twitter and asked a simple question: What would you do if you were Super Rich? The response was immediate, humbling and extremely encouraging.
Russell Simmons | Posted 05.25.2011
Re-instate Keith Olbermann now. I will personally pay his campaign contributions. Don't let this voice get lost when it is needed the most.
Russell Simmons | Posted 05.25.2011
Barack Obama has been a tremendous leader and an inspiration to us all. Young people will always have his back, because he have shown them that they are not only our future, but also they are our present.
Russell Simmons | Posted 05.25.2011
Shirley Sherrod, who has helped countless farmers keep their land, was accused by Fox of racism based on manipulative editing of a tape of a speech she gave about how she learned that race should never matter in helping the poor.
Russell Simmons | Posted 05.25.2011
Social media is the new hip hop, the new rock and roll, the new equalizer, giving voice to the previously voiceless, the sound and thunder for social justice.
Russell Simmons | Posted 05.25.2011
I was inspired to fund the Peacekeepers -- an initiative that seeks to deter crime in unstable neighborhoods -- after the wave of youth violence that has engulfed our nation. I, like so many community members, am fed up.
Russell Simmons | Posted 05.25.2011
The hatred and anger towards Muslims in this country and around the world has gone beyond the tipping point. This is not acceptable. We have to cleanse ourselves of this horrible disease.
Russell Simmons | Posted 05.25.2011
There is a well-documented history of Blacks and Jews standing together on civil rights. But not as much has been said about the creative alliances in business between these two groups.
Russell Simmons | Posted 05.25.2011
Banks seem to spend way too much time trying to gouge our communities and not enough time doing the basic things you'd expect a bank to do. I am ready to do everything I can to drive these sorts of banks out of our neighborhoods.
Russell Simmons | Posted 05.25.2011
The Haitian people were the first to be free of slavery, but they have been paying a price ever since. We, as a nation, have drained this beautiful island, but now we have the chance to repair the past.
Russell Simmons | Posted 05.25.2011
We are left with a bill that neither side is incredibly happy about, but from experience, I know it means that it is a good piece of legislation.
Russell Simmons | Posted 05.25.2011
I am amazed at the hypocrisy of the international media's attack on Beyonce for her performance at Nikki Beach in St. Barts over the holidays.
Russell Simmons | Posted 05.25.2011
I'm really afraid that our beloved country, America, is standing on its last wobbly legs. I'm worried that the karmic effects of our negative actions will finally come home to roost.
Russell Simmons | Posted 05.25.2011
Rush Limbaugh, in discussing "the black frame of mind," is using Tiger Woods as an Obama surrogate, using Tiger as a way to say that these men cannot be trusted.
Russell Simmons | Posted 05.25.2011
Now more than ever, the 89 percent of this country that is not black is thirsting to buy our products and follow our lead. I don't want to address just 11 percent of the population, I want to speak to 100 percent of America.
Sara Haile-Mariam | Posted 05.25.2011
Derrion Albert's death should resonate from coast to coast, because his early departure represents a lost opportunity; a life that could have given back has been taken.
Russell Simmons | Posted 05.25.2011
We need more people to speak out and to stand publicly with President Obama. Millions who voted are now way too silent, too passive and too willing to be patient with injustice.
Posted 05.25.2011
Ashley Dupre, the call girl entangled in former-Gov. Eliot Spitzer's sex scandal, lashes out at critics and the media in a new blog post on Global Gri...
Russell Simmons | Posted 05.25.2011
In a year where every single Governor is under fire, and other governors have simply quit (Mrs. Palin?), Governor Paterson is working hard to weather the storm during this difficult economic time.
Russell Simmons | Posted 05.25.2011
The effects of slavery on our communities have been devastating. The devastation does not stop because of the apology; however these are words that we all needed to hear.
Russell Simmons | Posted 05.25.2011
I was brought to tears by the president's simple, but truthful approach to building a bridge with the Muslim world.
Russell Simmons | Posted 05.25.2011
Don't let those who are angry in your base guide your choices or let the people to the left of President Obama push your buttons. This is your chance to make history and real change.
Russell Simmons | Posted 05.25.2011
We are issuing an urgent call for continued action by America's young voters to insure that Obama's leadership is forthrightly supported. The election is over, but the essential work of transformation has just begun.
Russell Simmons | Posted 05.25.2011