My Response to Rush Limbaugh's Rage
Yesterday I was referred to on air as "scum" by Rush Limbaugh. I was called out for challenging his efforts to own an NFL team, saying that Limbaugh's history of racial bombast should count against him.
Yesterday I was referred to on air as "scum" by Rush Limbaugh. I was called out for challenging his efforts to own an NFL team, saying that Limbaugh's history of racial bombast should count against him.
Daniel Bruno Sanz | Posted 09.10.2009 | Politics
Inheritance is White, poor credit scores, Black. A missing woman is White and a fugitive on the loose is Black.
Robert D. Patterson | Posted 07.11.2009 | Politics
I really wanted to help them understand that despite the positive changes in the current political landscape, they will need to be prepared for the inevitable backlash.
Michael Henry Adams | Posted 07.10.2009 | Style
Are you wistful for that old-time Harlem?
Casey Gane-McCalla | Posted 06.19.2009 | Politics
Malcolm X grew up in a time of segregation, police brutality, lynchings, and Jim Crow laws. He knew it would take the ballot or the bullet to bring about true change.
Michael Henry Adams | Posted 06.13.2009 | Style
Reputedly she is known by friends and family as "Ba"; habitually, as a uniform, she sports sober Calvin Klein suits and subsists on tuna or grilled...
Gabe Gonzalez | Posted 05.02.2009 | Politics
Were we stand right now is with a President that has laid out a bold vision. But that cannot become real if we, those that chose him, are silent.
Jim Selman | Posted 04.25.2009 | Living
I am generally not big on trips down memory lane, but there's a nice retrospective of the 60s I came across that was kind of fun. It seems like a long...
Martin Lewis | Posted 03.08.2009 | Living
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
Lauri Lyons | Posted 03.01.2009 | Politics
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.
Russell Simmons | Posted 01.03.2009 | Entertainment
Rappers, in the spirit of Malcolm X, point out contradictions. Both in their words and cultural dress codes, hip-hop defies the rigidity of people like Stanley Crouch.
Graham Bensinger | Posted 12.25.2008 | Politics
The day after the presidential election, I sat down with Jim Brown. Brown discussed a wide range of topics, including what electing the first African American president means to him.
Beau Friedlander | Posted 12.22.2008 | Politics
Obama's peace train is on tracks that have led to the same place since Eisenhower first told America to beware the military-industrial complex.
Casey Gane-McCalla | Posted 12.21.2008 | Politics
Many people may see Malcolm X and Barack Obama as opposites of each other in the sphere of black political figure, but Malcolm's own family has come out publicly for Obama.
Dave Zirin | Posted 10.15.2009 | Politics