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.

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.

This is not the first time that ASU president Michael Crow has been sledge hammered by charges that he's a closet bigot.

It is both troubling and dangerous when any community, specifically the African American community, stops feeling the need to hold their president accountable.

A calm day. A sunny, day, for San Francisco - which means really foggy with what will ultimately be an unfulfilled promise of sun later. A nice day, w...

Mason may be a big shot. But in my eyes, his a puny, unfunny bully. Hearing that he called President Obama such a terrible word doesn't surprise me at all.

The black community expects closure in the gaps: education, employment, housing and business. We expect black fullness in the White House at every level of the administration.

"Miss!" A large man with a crew cut pointed at me and exclaimed, "You have a bomb in your shoe!" This dude was talking to me. I was shocked.

How come the majority of people vocal about violence against Rihanna have been white women? How come black women as have not come together as a collective to say enough is enough?

Dear Attorney General Holder, Here's what I know from having taught in big city public high schools for the past 15 years: We want your children to fail. That's the truth.

These truths are self-evident, but are they fully realized? No. They are not. Complacency is what we have to fear, it's what this generation must fight.

We must turn a critical eye inward, and face the fact that HIV/AIDS has reached crisis levels among the Black population of the US. The statistics are startling.