Food Stamps Will Feed Half Of US Kids, Study Says
CHICAGO — Nearly half of all U.S. children and 90 percent of black youngsters will be on food stamps at some point during childhood, and fallout...
CHICAGO — Nearly half of all U.S. children and 90 percent of black youngsters will be on food stamps at some point during childhood, and fallout...
Bradley Burston | Posted 10.28.2009 | Entertainment
This was an era when the original Mad Men ruled the collective unconscious, when a gleaming pastel future, and, by extension, a lavishly sterile present, were held up as ideals and goals.
Saad Khan | Posted 11.11.2009 | World
The lack of major bloodshed in Pakistan is 'compensated for' by regular attacks on religious minorities and the desecration of their religious and personal assets.
Francesca Biller-Safran | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics
While health care is in need of radical reform for millions of Americans, minorities and especially blacks have historically suffered disproportionately from poor or non-existent health care.
Bob Greenstein | Posted 09.10.2009 | Politics
A piece of the health care bill that the Finance Committee's bipartisan negotiators are developing would discourage employers from hiring low-income and minority workers, women, and workers with disabilities.
Ray Hanania | Posted 08.22.2009 | Politics
Although the Republicans and "Blue Dog" conservative Democrats claimed they oppose Obama's health care plan because it would increase the nation's debt, the real reason is driven by racism.
Chris Gunn | Posted 08.21.2009 | Politics
Johnson proposed the "Fairness and Transparency in Contracting Act of 2009," to provide small businesses across the country with billions of dollars in additional contracting opportunities.
Jacob Reitan | Posted 08.14.2009 | Politics
I watched the opening statements made by the nineteen senators in Monday's confirmation hearing for Judge Sotomayor. Each senator previewed what they...
Jessica Loudis | Posted 08.13.2009 | Politics
Perhaps the right questions aren't whether or not Sotomayor is an activist or if she's biased in favor of minorities, but rather, what kind of perspective she'll be bringing to the court.
Carol M. Swain | Posted 07.17.2009 | Politics
This book is a warning and a wake-up call for Americans who cherish the civil rights vision of an integrated America, a common humanity, and equality before God and law.
Timothy Cooper | Posted 07.13.2009 | Media
Men II Boys is a new film that featuring interviews from BET journalist Jeff Johnson, Congressman Elijah Cummings (D-MD) and Baltimore Ravens Tight End, Daniel Wilcox.
John Ridley | Posted 06.15.2009 | Politics
Here's what we know about minorities in America: their names are too hard to pronounce, they're responsible for bringing in the Swine flu -- as devastating as that was -- and they single-handedly caused the financial meltdown.
Senate Guru | Posted 06.12.2009 | Politics
The NRSC has found a way to piss off its base while also curtailing outreach to minority communities. Impressive job, John Cornyn.
John Ridley | Posted 06.08.2009 | Politics
Asian Pacific American Heritage Month doesn't get nearly the play that Black History Month does. But then neither do Women's History Month, Hispanic Heritage Month, or American Indian and Alaska Native Heritage Month.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 05.30.2009 | Politics
As long as the GOP has its grip on the millions that made and kept the GOP a heavily white party, it's far from dead as a party.
Dr. Anne Chapas | Posted 04.12.2009 | Living
The 67th annual meeting of the American Academy of Dermatology had countless sessions covering a broad range of skin diseases and conditions but one o...
Rob Kall | Posted 03.08.2009 | Politics
Bottom up approaches work because they do something different than usual, or because they support bottom up community, cooperation, sharing and community.
Seth Freed Wessler | Posted 03.08.2009 | Politics
A society cannot survive without a safety net and we don't have one during the worst economic crisis in decades.
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.
Raafi Rivero | Posted 02.23.2009 | Business
YouTube has become the default TV of the Internet. This is remarkable considering that a) It did not exist during the last presidential campaign and b) so much of the content is by non-professionals.
Logan Nakyanzi Pollard | Posted 03.02.2009 | Politics
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.
Laura Carlsen | Posted 12.15.2008 | Home
The election of Barack Obama as the nation's first African American president has been heralded as proof that the United States has finally broken t...
Diane Tucker | Posted 08.05.2009 | Home
"Everyone I talk to wants change but on base you can't say certain things. At a bar or a party, everyone tells me they're voting for Obama... My military friends are tired of being lied to."
Politico | JIM VANDEHEI & JOSH KRAUSHAAR | Posted 05.27.2008 | Politics
Just a few years after the Republican Party launched a highly publicized diversity effort, the GOP is heading into the 2008 election without a single ...
AP | LINDSEY TANNER | Posted 11.02.2009 | Politics