At 115 years of age, Mrs. Gertrude Baines, an African-American, had once more earned the proud and breath-stopping distinction of being the world's oldest person.
Yvonne R. Davis | Posted 05.07.2009 | World
President Obama knows the United States has been losing these wars and also knows the terrible impact these wars have had on a group of people when they are labeled and targeted.
Art Levine | Posted 05.04.2009 | Home
While some Washington pundits have declared the Employee Free Choice Act essentially dead because Republican Senator Arlen Sp...
Donna Norton | Posted 04.30.2009 | Living
Our children are our nation's future. One out of fifty children are already homeless, missing critical years of education, healthy development, and community support.
Clarence B. Jones | Posted 04.30.2009 | Media
Critical and constructive analysis of President Obama's policies is certainly more useful than our Black Media's continued uncritical celebration of our new president.
Pius Kamau | Posted 04.25.2009 | Living
Two taboo subjects exist for black Americans: male gay sex and mental illness. The refusal to discuss them has had devastating results.
Ray Hanania | Posted 04.18.2009 | Politics
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.
Hermene Hartman | Posted 04.17.2009 | Politics
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.
Yvonne R. Davis | Posted 04.16.2009 | Politics
"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.
Yvonne R. Davis | Posted 04.16.2009 | Politics
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?
Dr. Anne Chapas | Posted 04.12.2009 | Living
The 67th annual meeting of the American Academy of Dermatology had countless sessions covering a broad range of skin diseases and conditions but one o...
Dennis Danziger | Posted 04.10.2009 | Politics
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.
Sara Haile-Mariam | Posted 04.02.2009 | Politics
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.
Carl Sferrazza Anthony | Posted 03.28.2009 | Style
There were few powerful women in mid-19th century America who more vigorously pressed the case first for abolition and then for the education, housing, and welfare of freed African-American slaves than did Mrs. Lincoln.
Casey Gane-McCalla | Posted 03.09.2009 | Entertainment
Both Obama and Marley had the ability to rally people of African descent under the banner of black pride and people of all other races under the banner of unity.
Gloria Reuben | Posted 03.08.2009 | Politics
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.
Michael Hastings-Black | Posted 03.07.2009 | Business
When brands aim to reach minority markets, most opt to play it safe with the tropes that Blacks value 'soul', Latinos love 'family', Asians are 'sedulous', etc...
Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 03.06.2009 | Politics
The tragic mistake of human history is that we have either assigned meaning to skin color or tried to ignore its reality. Both are deeply flawed world views.
Jaemin Kim | Posted 03.06.2009 | Living
Reducing Asian women into a sexual object is not funny, it is not flattering. It is perilous. We can see this when Asian women are subject to race-targeted sexual violence.
Danielle Celena Belton | Posted 03.05.2009 | Style
We're here to help the clueless modeling agencies who seem to think black Americans are, you know, hard to find. Even if there are 40 million blacks in America.
Jill Nelson | Posted 03.05.2009 | Media
In journalism, white people who are granted the role of analyzing everyone, including African Americans, who are likely overlooked or spoken for by white expert opinion.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 05.07.2009 | Style