If there is a black person living in America who has not uttered the word, they should stand tall and receive the NAACP Image Award.
Washington Independent | Mary Kane | Posted 07.27.2008 | Business
When troubled borrower Diane McLeod's debt problems made the front page of The New York Times earlier this week, she ignited a debate over borrowers, ...
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 06.14.2008 | Politics
This debate continues to rage -- and the debate is even sillier when one considers that science has long since debunked the notion of a pure racial type.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 06.10.2008 | Politics
Bush and the GOP's domestic fumbles are potentially Obama's biggest selling point. He must repeatedly remind voters that they should be mad about the economy.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 05.14.2008 | Politics
The overwhelming rejection of Obama by blue collar, rural, and non-college educated in West Virginia, all Democrats, is no longer cause for private worry for Obama but grave public fear.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 05.08.2008 | Politics
By dignifying anything that Limbaugh says, Kerry and Team Obama do a disservice to the success that Obama's retooled stump tactics had in making the Indiana race closer.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 04.11.2008 | Home
As late as this past January, black talk show host Tavis Smiley was the darling of black America. Three months later he's the butt of black Americ...
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 03.14.2008 | Politics
Let rival Clinton (or God forbid, hubby Bill) even breathe the R word about Obama and the screeches from the clinically obsessive Hate Hillary Clubbers are swift and loud.
Barbara Ehrenreich | Posted 01.15.2008 | Politics
Clinton's LBJ remark reveals something more worrisome than racial tone-deafness - a theory of social change that's as elitist as it is inaccurate.
New York Times | DIANE CARDWELL | Posted 01.05.2008 | Politics
For Sadou Brown in a Los Angeles suburb, the decisive victory of Senator Barack Obama in Iowa was a moment to show his 14-year-old son what is possibl...
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 10.18.2007 | Politics
Stripped away, Cosby's book is the same stock claim that blacks can't read, write or speak coherent English, and are social and educational cripples and failures.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 09.26.2007 | Media
It's easy to razz O'Reilly as a loudmouthed racist. But dumping on O'Reilly for giving his honest reaction is disingenuous and self-serving. It simply puts O'Reilly on the hook while letting far too many others off of it.
HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Roston | Posted 09.26.2007 | Politics
The top four Republican presidential candidates will sit out Thursday night's debate before African-American voters at Morgan State University in Balt...
WASHINGTON — By claiming that Democrat Barack Obama is "palling around...
UPDATE: Radar reports that the Secret Service is investigating...
On "Meet the Press" Sunday morning, vice presidential debate moderator Gwen Ifill said Palin "more...
The McCain campaign is all set to roll out...
MCCAIN CAMP TALKS 'CHARACTER ASSASSINATION,'
About a year ago, I had a memorable chat with a high-ranking Republican operative. ...
Katie Couric was out shopping in midtown with her daughters...
McCain lobbed attacks on Obama today as the markets were in freefall. Republican
Actor and activist Alec Baldwin appeared on "Real Time with Bill Maher" Friday night. At several points...
WASHINGTON — The now-bankrupt...
I had an unusual seat for the...
WASHINGTON — Hurricane Ike's winds and massive waves destroyed...
Two French scientists who discovered the AIDS virus and a German who defied convention...
Hermene Hartman | Posted 08.21.2008 | Style