The Meaning of Manslaughter?
The United States has elected its first black president, and yet our struggle for human dignity and mutual respect is hardly over. In the same electio...
The United States has elected its first black president, and yet our struggle for human dignity and mutual respect is hardly over. In the same electio...
Lauri Lyons | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
Jim Wallis | Posted 05.25.2011
I see racial sub-texts in the intensity of the attacks on Obama -- not in the disagreements per se, but in the viciousness of the rhetoric.
Logan Nakyanzi Pollard | Posted 05.25.2011
This is the nub of it for me with the Lefties: they do not truly understand who they are, nor what they are motivated by. The slightest bump in the road leads to anarchy or dissent.
Chicago Sun-Times | Abdon M. Pallasch | Posted 05.25.2011
Speaking this morning at a Martin Luther King Jr. breakfast, the state's new junior U.S. senator, Roland Burris said that without Burris' own trailbla...
Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 05.25.2011
We would be much more accurate, and would distance ourselves from a troubling racism, if we rejoiced in electing Obama as the first American president of African descent.
David Wallechinsky | Posted 05.25.2011
In 1964, my father, Irving Wallace, wrote a novel, The Man, about the first black president. For this, my father received both accolades and death threats.
BBC NEWS | Posted 05.25.2011
BBC World News America has unearthed a fascinating clip of Dr Martin Luther King speaking to the BBC's Bob McKenzie in 1964 in which Dr King predicts ...
Frank Schaeffer | Posted 05.25.2011
Like millions of white Americans, I voted for our new black President, and I did so with confidence and enthusiasm, as I would have voted for a savior come to rescue our nation.
Lara M. Gardner | Posted 05.25.2011
In spite of Obama's election, what America has not given up and seems loathe to give up, regardless how far backward we move socially, morally, and legally, is religion.
David Murray | Posted 05.25.2011
It's impossible to know for sure what Woods has done over the last decade to soften up white America for a black presidential candidate with similar qualities.
Eugene Linden | Posted 05.25.2011
If ever there was a year for a Democratic president to be elected, this was it - a war without end, imploding economy, the most unpopular incumbent in...
William Bradley | Posted 05.25.2011
In Barack Obama and John McCain, we representatives of an emerging set of values and an enduring tradition. But we didn't get the sort of constructive debate between these traditions showing the value of each.
Deanie Mills | Posted 05.25.2011
I have never seen a more exciting demonstration of democracy in action than what I have witnessed in the past two years, since I first read both of Obama's books and signed on as a volunteer.
Leonce Gaiter | Posted 05.25.2011
I remember as a child in school in the late 60s and 70s hearing how in America anyone can grow up to be President, and knowing that it was a lie, knowing that if America had the balls to bet her glory on that statement, America would lose.
Marc Cooper | Posted 05.25.2011
Hope, says the dictionary, is about our desires. Faith, on the other hand, is about confidence. I've got tons of the former, and damn near none of the latter. So if Obama offers hope, I'll take what I can get.
The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
David Alan Grier, host of Comedy Central's new "Chocolate News," questions whether Barack Obama would really be the "first black president." After all...
Adele Stan | Posted 05.25.2011
Michelle Obama's Convention speech should go a long way to reassuring Joe Average, if not Joe Wingnut, that Michelle Obama has figured out how to be a first lady for her time.
Dennis Perrin | Posted 05.25.2011
It's one thing to be told that you're living in historic times. It's another to be told that not only must you happily appreciate this, you should applaud the fact, regardless of personal doubts.
Michael Henry Adams | Posted 05.25.2011