"Where do broken hearts go, can they find their way home, back to the open arms of a love that's waiting there. And if somebody loves you-won't they always love you. . ."
I am shocked. I am saddened. I was crying as I penned this column in the wee...
80 Comments | Posted February 9, 2012 | g:i A
Let's get right to it, shall we: CNN fumbled the GLAAD vs. Roland S. Martin situation badly. The indefinite suspension yesterday of Martin as a commentator for the cable news network due to some of his "tweets" during Superbowl Sunday is something we should all consider carefully because the ramifications...
Posted November 20, 2011 | g:i A
They swept in like a raucous breeze on a calm summer's day; seemingly drawing American citizens from all walks of life: college students, women, men, black, white, Latino, middle class, and working class. Even some corporate executives joined their cause. Their message is one most Americans on some level embrace:...
Posted August 16, 2011 | g:i A
Why are some of the best and brightest black female voices in America so outraged over the new movie The Help based on Kathryn Stockett's best-selling novel?
Well, according to the Association of Black Women Historians (ABWH), and others like Professor Melissa Harris Perry of...
Posted July 27, 2011 | g:i A
Yesterday the news media was abuzz with stories on the growing wealth and prosperity gap between black, white and brown people in America.
To be candid, I am not sure why everyone is walking around in shock and awe. This is not news to most black and brown...
Posted November 8, 2010 | g:i A
Tyler Perry has done it again, raking in more than $20 million dollars this weekend on his screen adaptation of the 1975 award winning play "Colored Girls". What I found most compelling and a bit disturbing about the adaptation, is that I was 7 years old when it was first...
Posted September 12, 2010 | g:i A
On this solemn weekend of the 9th anniversary of 9-11, I find myself deeply troubled by the most recent development involving the Florida Pastor who threatened to publicly burn Qurans, but decided against doing so after receiving enormous pressure from fellow pastors and high ranking government officials.
Apparently, officials...
Posted July 27, 2010 | g:i A
As I have reflected on the past two weeks and the racial furor that erupted over the NAACP's Resolution, and Shirley Sherrod's firing from USDA -- I find myself playing over and over again something profound that Shirley Sherrod said in her now infamous video recorded speech. She said, "That's...
Posted July 22, 2010 | g:i A
No she did not refuse to give up her seat on a bus. Yet, she finds herself in the middle of a racial firestorm started by the NAACP when it adopted a controversial Resolution, answered by the Tea Party (which resulted in one of its leaders Mark Williams being expelled)...
Posted May 11, 2010 | g:i A
It struck me as I was thinking about the last two Supreme Court nominees offered by President Obama, that we may be seeing a pattern. Single, well educated ivy-league women, with no children.
The reason this little discussed fact caught my attention is because I have been working on...
Posted January 13, 2010 | g:i A
Posted December 29, 2009 | g:i A
It was déjà vu all over again for me. It was Christmas, my two young bi-racial nieces were in town for Christmas and we decided to all go see Disney's new Princess & the Frog movie. To be candid, I thought it was...
Posted December 4, 2009 | g:i A
After seeing the movie with the same title, I will never think of Chante Moore's chart topping 1990's song, "Precious," quite the same, ever again. The movie Precious left me feeling deeply wounded, confused and horrified that there are actually fellow citizens among...
Posted November 3, 2009 | g:i A
Here in Virginia voter turnout has been low on this crisp autumn election day. That bodes well for Republican Bob McDonnell. My prediction is that McDonnell wins by no less than 4 points. Chris Christie in New Jersey wins by plus 2 and in NY Mr. Hoffman probably wins in...
Posted October 15, 2009 | g:i A
Saturday, October 3, was a tough day for President Obama and U.S. Troops serving in the war against Terrorism in Afghanistan. Bad for the President because it was he who declared vehemently during the 2008 Campaign that "Afghanistan is a war of necessity" and warned that losing it would put...
Posted September 28, 2009 | g:i A
Over the past nine months I don't think I have been coy about the fact that as a black moderate republican (does such a thing exist?) I voted for President Obama and that I have not been pleased with the overall direction and tone of my own political party of...
Posted August 31, 2009 | g:i A
One of my earliest childhood memories is of a book I found amongst my mother's things when she was a nursing student in the late 1970s. The book was about Ted Kennedy titled, "Teddy Bare -- the last of the Kennedy Clan" (the book written by Zad Rust is now...
Posted August 29, 2009 | g:i A
As I sat over the past 48 hours or so and watched the media coverage of the extraordinary life of Senator Edward M. Kennedy, something struck me as being unfair: What about the former Mrs. Edward Kennedy -- Joan Bennett Kennedy?
I don't mean any disrespect whatsoever toward the current...
Posted July 30, 2009 | g:i A
This afternoon all eyes will be on the president of the United States and the South Lawn of the White House.
No, the president of France is not coming to visit, nor the chancellor of Germany. There is no grand state dinner being prepared for hundreds of guests to greet...
Posted July 21, 2009 | g:i A
So let me see if I got this straight --
World renowned Harvard professor and best-selling author Henry Louis Gates, Jr. comes home from a trip abroad to communist China where he was filming a video about America. His driver brings him to his home in Cambridge Massachusetts, and he...
24 Comments | Posted February 13, 2012 | g:i A