Happy New Era! (a Greeting to Share With Your Pals)
Terry Real | Posted 02.20.2009 | Living
It is in everyone's interest -- the victim, the bully and the bystander -- to create a safe environment in which respect for one another is not just a voluntary matter but a baseline norm that we insist upon.
Michael DeJong | Posted 02.19.2009 | Politics
Today more than ever, Dr. King now seems with us. His premonition of not reaching the Promised Land at this moment seems false, because Barack Obama is standing on King's shoulders.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 02.18.2009 | Politics
A percentage of whites who said they'd vote for Obama also said that blacks were more crime prone than whites. Yet Obama was seen as a racial exception, the penchant for making these distinctions between blacks.
Casey Gane-McCalla | Posted 02.17.2009 | Politics
In his "I Have a Dream" speech, MLK talked about a check given to African Americans that had bounced, a check that said "all men were created equal." 45 years later, has the check cleared?
Martin Lewis | Posted 09.28.2008 | Politics
McCain: I have a dream that one day all men will live out the true meaning of my creed: "We hold these first wives to be self-evidently dump-able (especially if they have gained a lot of weight after a severely disfiguring car accident).
Martin Lewis | Posted 09.24.2008 | Politics
"I am grateful for the fact that I have a wonderful life. I spent some years without a kitchen table, without a chair, and I know what it's like to b...
Chris Weigant | Posted 07.19.2008 | Politics
Welcome back to Friday Talking Points, after a one-week hiatus! While plenty has happened in the past two weeks which bears close and careful analysis...
Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. | Posted 06.11.2008 | Politics
Senator Obama's nomination confirms Dr. King's observation that "the moral arc of the universe" is long, but bends toward freedom and justice for all.
Martin Lewis | Posted 02.20.2009 | Politics