Amid the anticipated media narrative, of Ghana excitedly welcoming the first Black President on his first trip to sub-Saharan Africa, many are also wondering about the substance.
Lauri Lyons | Posted 07.06.2009 | New York
The Apollo Theater's memorial tribute to Michael Jackson might as well have been Mardi Gras in Harlem.
D. D. Guttenplan | Posted 07.06.2009 | Entertainment
Because mud sticks, I was going to kick off here by examining the so-called evidence for the charge that I.F. Stone, the legendary radical journalist,...
AP | DAVID BAUDER | Posted 07.04.2009 | Media
NEW YORK — Roland Martin will anchor a new Sunday public affairs show aimed at a black audience that will debut in September on the TV One netwo...
Mitchell Kapor | Posted 06.29.2009 | Politics
If we truly want to promote our society as a level playing field, then we must become more adept at differentiating between what actually is earned versus what is a matter of circumstance.
Cynthia Gordy | Posted 06.25.2009 | Green
Opponents of the Waxman-Markey bill maintain that raising fuel and utility prices at all is an assault on the poor.
Charles D. Ellison | Posted 06.23.2009 | Style
Rage against the Mullah machine fumes in Iran, economy is wrecked, and health care reform is a rubbery roast of ripped tire on the road to political h...
Daniel Cubias | Posted 06.22.2009 | Politics
For the most part, we Hispanics simply want others to know that we are part of U.S. culture. Any Latino who has ever been told, "You look American" knows what I'm talking about.
Yvonne R. Davis | Posted 06.19.2009 | Politics
We can all feel relieved there is an official acknowledgment that something terrible was done to black people. Yet the reality is way too much time has passed for this apology to really mean anything.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 06.16.2009 | Politics
The gorilla and African-Americans analogy has long been standard fare in racial slurs of blacks. The only wrinkle to that is slapping the depiction on President Obama.
Cynthia Gordy | Posted 06.12.2009 | Politics
The President can't do it all alone. So much in our lives is decided in our backyards and yet that's where folks are most apathetic.
Daniel Cubias | Posted 06.06.2009 | Living
I've mentioned before that Hispanics are now the number-one ethnic minority in America. On a related note, I'm sure you've heard that salsa is more po...
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 06.02.2009 | Politics
The wishful thought was that Obama's election buried once and for all negative racial typecasting and the perennial threat it posed to the safety and well-being of black males. It did no such thing.
Earnest Harris | Posted 05.28.2009 | Politics
Important issues like the right to marry shouldn't be treated in "American Idol" style decision making where whatever is most appealing to the largest number of people wins.
Paul Jenkins | Posted 05.25.2009 | Politics
The vacuum left by former clown-in-chief George W. Bush, ably lead by sinister foil Dick Cheney, has spawned an entire army of wanna-be Bushes: the ni...
Jennifer Wheary | Posted 05.21.2009 | Business
A report released last week by the Pew Hispanic Center shows that African Americans and Latinos experiences the most dramatic decline in home ownership rates in recent years among all ethnic groups.
C. Nicole Mason | Posted 05.18.2009 | Politics
In order to cut the unemployment rate in those communities to the projected national rate of 6.5 percent, an additional 1.7 million jobs would have to be created and go directly to Blacks and Latinos by 2010.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 05.14.2009 | Media
The Washington Times juxtaposition of the Obama girls with crime and violence dumped back on the table the sensitive, troubling, and polarizing issue of racial stereotyping.
Laura Kiss | Posted 05.13.2009 | World
We want politics with another flavor. We want to see the politics of humanity, of dignity, of dialogue, of wisdom, of grace.
Emily Henry | Posted 05.12.2009 | Politics
Teachers, parents, and students are preparing for a strike on May 15th, hoping to urge the LAUSD to spend its almost $1 billion of federal stimulus money and save jobs now.
Jim Wallis | Posted 05.05.2009 | Politics
Kemp was a fervent believer in "supply side economics," which I just as fervently oppose. But you do not have to agree with all of Jack Kemp's economic policies to be impressed and inspired with his life and leadership.
Sherman Yellen | Posted 04.24.2009 | Entertainment
We are so blessed by our capacity to get beyond our own skins, our own sexuality, and our own fortunes, that all of us can enter into the world of the other and find that their world is our own world, after all.
Martha St Jean | Posted 04.22.2009 | World
According to Dr. Kevin Fenton, director of the National Center for HIV/AIDS at the CDC, one in 30 black women will be diagnosed with HIV at some point in her lifetime. That is unacceptable.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 04.11.2009 | Politics
This is not the first time that ASU president Michael Crow has been sledge hammered by charges that he's a closet bigot.
Jeff Johnson | Posted 04.09.2009 | Politics
It is both troubling and dangerous when any community, specifically the African American community, stops feeling the need to hold their president accountable.
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Cynthia Gordy | Posted 07.10.2009 | World