MARS HILL, N.C. — The daughter of Malcolm X was being held in a North Carolina jail and could be extradited to New York to face charges on sever...
Malcolm X called 1964 the year of "the ballot or the bullet." Today, it is only a matter of time before the bullet forces calls for freedom and democracy to be answered.
I heard Martin Luther King's dream that hot day in August and was never the same. Growing up in the civil rights era without being able to participate as a young child felt like a reed being buffeted by the wind.
I was recently taken aback during a business meeting when a woman in her 20s (I'll call her Heather) referred to me and my two older sisters as "girls."
War is a profitable business, and as our economy continues its decline, we can anticipate more calls to "bomb, bomb Iran" so we can fight and spend our way to "recovery." Talk about insanity.
Today, "stop snitching" campaigns have lead to a form of tribalism whereby African-American communities forfeit their right to police protection in favor of a tenacious defiance to authority.
It's disappointing that Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel isn't a better movie. Not that it's a bad one. But, were cable standards a little less skittish, it would fit right in on the Biography channel.
We love it when newspapers put the wrong picture with a headline. But this one is just ridiculous. It's the President. You may have seen him before. Y...
NEW YORK – The only man ever to admit involvement in the assassination of Malcolm X was freed on parole Tuesday, 45 years after he helped gun do...
Mr. President: In that fight over health care, when you stood for something, and fought for it, you won.
Naturally, as the city's oldest, most fashionable African American congregation for two centuries, Saint Philip's Episcopal Church was bound to be 94 year old Mrs. Cunningham's parish.
"Black America stands at the precipice. African American unemployment is at its highest in 25 years. Thirty-five percent of our children live in poor...
I would like to extend a sincere apology for forgetting Black History Month yet again. I don't know why this seems to happen every year, but I'm always filled with regret that I didn't do any celebrating.
What needs to be continually taught is that Malcolm X was a man who, through a mere 39 years, evolved intellectually and spiritually in a manner that many do not manage to in a lifetime.
In a speech Malcolm X asked rhetorically, "What do Racists call a black with a PhD?," to which he answered, "Nigger!" That was America 45 years ag...
Coined the "black Fidel Castro of boxing", it is with great irony that Muhammad Ali became a favored celebrity pitchman for his embodiment of courage, character and charisma.
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.
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.
Inheritance is White, poor credit scores, Black. A missing woman is White and a fugitive on the loose is Black.
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.
Are you wistful for that old-time Harlem?
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.
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...
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.
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...
