National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day highlights the virus' prevalence among Blacks, who account for a shocking 46% of HIV cases despite comprising just 12% of the general population.
For too long communities of color have not seen climate change as their problem, but we must now be a part of the solution. Poor people and people of color are feeling its adverse impact first and worst.
Deborah Willis tells stories through pictures. I wanted to tell her story with her words. We sat down in New York City's Leica Gallery discussing her, her work and the life of art.
Needless to say, Toyota is in the throes of a crisis. But today, it's more potentially crippling to a brand given the world of social media, mobile texting and the like.
Really though, I just look forward to recommending Dick Gregory's book "Nigger". I want to make white people buy, but not reference out loud, a book called "Nigger".
Fifty years after the sit-ins, far too many people, African Americans in particular, and poor people and people of color in general, are denied their freedom rights.
In the film, Off and Running, silence becomes the catalyst for a drama that explores a young woman's quest for identity and a family's struggle to deal with life's unique challenges.
Unforgiveness as National Policy There is a problem with the kind of forgiveness as national policy that I described in a blog post back in November: ...
In light of the current economic climate - while chewing on recent Republican, populist-tinged victories in New Jersey, Virginia and, most recently, M...
Immigration Reform. It's an issue that evokes social, emotional, and economic unease in communities across the nation. It's an issue that conjures up ...
On January 19, amidst reports that Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.) is considering ditching his proposal for a Consumer Fi...
A huge crowd turned out to hear what the poet and author who goes only by the name Sapphire had to say -- so big that by 10 minutes before her schedul...
King's own words says it all concerning the political, socio-economic, and moral crisis represented in Haiti today and represented in racial inequality throughout the world. Read, remember, and act.
According to a recent Pew Research Center poll, "Hispanics, not blacks, now are seen as the ethnic group facing the most discrimination."
First-time author Kathryn Stockett's recent book, The Help, has risen quickly through the bestseller lists despite Stockett being previously unknown a...
Voters didn't throw some disembodied, decontextualized essence of blackness on the table in deciding whether or not to vote for Barack Obama. His racial identity was one part of a complex mix of considerations.
Since its inception, Morehouse College has prided itself on producing exceptional black men. As far as Morehouse is concerned though, GBTQ men are not a part of this elite brotherhood.
Eunice was the most Fashionable of all Fair Ladies / Who knew the beauty of Black.
The correlation that stuck with me the most from my service at the Department of Labor during the Clinton years was the one between learning and earning, simply, "The more you learn, the more you earn."
Joblessness for 16-to-24-year-old black men has reached Great Depression proportions -- 34.5 percent in October, more than three times the rate for th...
The Asian-adoptee identity crisis reported in the Times might finally lend credence to what black social workers have been saying all along: Ethnic and racial identity matters.
Sisters, the time has come for you to change the rules, and walk upright in all of your glory, beauty and splendor as a black woman. The rest will come. I promise.
Princeton University's Cornel West -- the American philosopher, author, critic, pastor, actor and civil rights activist -- compares his lifestyle to the blues in his new autobiography.
The Congressional Black Caucus got another painful reminder that President Obama is not black President Obama. In a press interview Obama bluntly s...
