Reading Amanda: One Black Man's Burden
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...
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...
Kathleen Slattery-Moschkau | Posted 04.22.2009 | Media
I shared the New York Times article on Vitamins not because I think the information is Gospel but because it raised interesting questions about a few of our very closely held assumptions.
Joanne Bamberger | Posted 02.28.2009 | Media
Al Gore, it's not really kosher Twitter etiquette to have 160,000+ people on your list and then only be interested in what two of them are tweeting.
Marianne Schnall | Posted 02.17.2009 | Living
I have enough of life in me to make somebody jealous enough to want to knock me down. I have so much courage in me that I have the effrontery, the incredible gall to stand up. That's it.
Karen Ocamb | Posted 12.22.2008 | Politics
LGBT folks were not prepared for the sucker-punch Rick Warren, especially after having our legitimate, fundamental right to marry stripped from us by a majority of California voters.
AP | JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN | Posted 12.19.2008 | Media
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Elizabeth Alexander was a toddler in a baby stroller when her parents took her to hear Martin Luther King's historic "I Have ...
John Lundberg | Posted 12.14.2008 | Living
The Associated Press reported last week on a growing expectation in the poetry community that Obama will follow in the tradition of Kennedy, Carter an...
Yvonne R. Davis | Posted 12.08.2008 | Living
Analyzed as part of the multi-generational black family, grandmothers have often served as both patriarch and matriarch, guiding the black family through the toils and crises of our time.
Dr. Cara Barker | Posted 11.03.2008 | Living
"And now the work begins," wrote Dr. Maya Angelou in "Commencement Address." Her words have never rung more true than today. With two years of Elect...
Maria Hinojosa | Posted 09.19.2008 | Media
For me, Palin's nomination raises a significant question: Is a woman candidate always a women's candidate? How would she fight for women's causes?
Vickie Karp | Posted 08.31.2008 | Politics
At the funeral service for Coretta Scott King on February 7, 2006, Dr. Maya Angelou made one of the most beautiful speeches I've ever heard. Subject?...
John Lundberg | Posted 07.27.2008 | Living
In 1971, James Dickey wrote a letter listing the top ten living American poets. Slotted in third place behind Ezra Pound and W.H. Auden was...James D...
Kathleen Reardon | Posted 06.05.2008 | Home
None of us knows what Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton spoke about Thursday night, but there is a feeling in the air that perhaps ignorance, arrogance, and cheap put-downs will cease to amuse -- cease to raise ratings.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.30.2008 | Politics
The latest advertisement from the Clinton campaign is the shrewdest and most fortuitously-timed piece of campaign video we've seen in a while. Check ...
Jerry and Joe Long | Posted 04.25.2008 | Politics
Whether you are her supporter, leaning towards her, undecided, or supporting someone else, I believe Hillary Clinton will never forget anyone who didn't fall in line - and she will make you pay.
After a three-night stay in Moscow, the Obamas touched down in Rome on Wednesday so Papa President...
How would you like to live in the White House? Take the HuffPost Poll of World Leaders' Residences...
UPDATE: Paris Jackson also spoke. Watch her moving...
I was sorry to watch, live on CNN, Edward R. Murrow and Emmy Award-winning broadcaster and...
The following post...
It was with interest that I read Dr. Soram Khalsa's post on The Huffington Post...
Below are photos from Michael Jackson's memorial, with Mariah Carey, Lionel Richie, Smokey Robinson,...
Yesterday evening, Greg Sargent reported on The Plum Line that one of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's key reasons...
OH NOES! What happened on Fox and Friends today, people?
It's been a rocky year for Letterman and Palin. He joked...
I'm liveblogging the latest Iran election fallout. Email me with any news or thoughts, or follow me...
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Oscar G. Mayer, retired chairman of the Wisconsin-based meat processing company that bears his name,...
It's summer, the time for weddings! A few of my friends are getting married this summer and fall, so lately...
SYDNEY — Residents of a rural Australian town hoping to protect the earth and their wallets...
I get many letters like this from readers...
Michael Henry Adams | Posted 05.13.2009 | Style