Obama: "The Senate and the House bills are 95 percent identical. There's 5 percent differences, and one of those differences is the public option. But this is an area that has just become symbolic of a lot of ideological fights."

Despite Sarah Palin's success as a wife, a mother, politician, opinion leader and now author, large numbers of black people just are not feeling her.

Today's generation of managers goes to our best business schools not to learn to be builders, creators and healers but to be more clever and effective swindlers, gamblers and parasites.

Reid's use of "Negro" is far less troubling than his other remarks. His reference to the political benefits of Obama's "light-skinned" appearance is particularly problematic.

The past four decades have been a mixture of social growing pains and progress. Even with that said, most people never believed that a Black man would become the President.

On issues of race, Obama will forever be either the man who healed the septic wound that runs across the back of this nation, or the man who turned away from the mirror to solve more "practical" issues.

The average life span for African-Americans living in New Orleans is nearly as low as average life expectancy in North Korea, according to A Portrait ...

They say the best offense is a good defense. Our only real defense against right wing insanity is to put them on the defense and keep them there.

The notion that marriage is threatened by legally sanctioned relationships because of sexual orientation is patently absurd.

While health care is in need of radical reform for millions of Americans, minorities and especially blacks have historically suffered disproportionately from poor or non-existent health care.