With the horrors in Haiti, the U.S. Census "Negro" controversy would seem to be a pretty nonexistent issue at the moment...on the surface at least.

November is National American Indian Heritage Month. Thursday, November 26, most people will sit around their dinner tables with their families and talk about the things that they are grateful for as they feast on turkey, stuffing and other dishes. Quite a few people know the history behind Thanksgiving, although many only know the version taught to them in grammar school: that there was a benevolent alliance between Pilgrims and American Indians.

I recently interviewed two members of the Oneida Nation, Clint Hill (Turtle Clan representative, Oneida Nation Council) and Kathy Kuhl (Central New York Indian Outreach coordinator). I also interviewed a member of the Georgia Eastern Tribe of Cherokee, Lucian Lamar Sneed (chairman and historian of the Georgia Tribe of Eastern Cherokee). Hill, Kuhl and Sneed shared their thoughts on their community's past and present relationships with the United States and Thanksgiving, among other topics:

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Thursday marked the birthday of one of the greatest musical talents of all time: Fela Anikulapo-Kuti.

Too often, as a society, we insult our young people, labeling them as a lost generation. Here's a young man who has taken leadership in to his 11-year-old hands.

Who knew that bleaching cream or skin whiteners could ensure a happy life?

Well, that's the message being put forth to Indian men in a new TV ad for the skin-whitening product Fair Menz. The commercial features two men, one who has a fair complexion and one who has a darker complexion. The darker-skinned man tells his friend in Hindi that his face makes him unlucky. His friend responds that the color of his face is the problem, and to the rescue comes Fair Menz, the answer to his troubles. After the guy uses the product, the commercial ends with him riding away on a motorcycle with a woman. All is solved, right?

Today marks the official birthday of the late Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, a man who had a revolutionary vision for Ghana, and Africa as a whole, through his lifelong mission to forge a United States of Africa.

Well, it appears to be hunting season on Nigerians. I had just completed my undergraduate studies at New York University, when I saw the '20/20' investigation into Nigerian e-mail scams. Within days, I witnessed the words "Nigerian" and "scam" fall from the lips of individuals who were convinced that Nigerians' sole purpose in life was to defraud others. Since that time, I find that I am constantly correcting someone who finds it perfectly fine to utter Nigerian scam jokes in my presence or probe the extent of my knowledge or involvement with 419 (a term from the Nigerian Criminal Code Act Section 419) upon learning that I am Nigerian. I think I have rolled my eyes more times in the past few years than in my entire life. This brings me to Sony's latest PlayStation 3 commercial, which you can check out below: