Race and Civil Rights
The Rev. Al Sharpton is Becoming Obama White House Insider
There has been much reported on the disagreement between Tavis Smiley and The Rev. Al Sharpton ...
Cory Booker and Newark Respond to Conan O'Brien with Major Drug Arrest
Last year, comedian Conan O'Brien got into an interesting and fun back and forth with Newark, N.J. ...
Jobs Bill Won't Help Blacks
Black folks won't benefit from a just-passed $18 billion jobs bill, says Rep. Elijah Cummings, a ...
States Rights' Advocates Look to Cripple Health Care Reform
It isn't even the law of the land yet. Health care reform, President Obama's most ambitious policy ...
Slimy Insurer Who Targeted HIV Patients Ordered to Pay $10 Million
Just when you think health insurance companies can't get any more shady, Fortis/Assurant Health ...
Ron Paul's Racist Newsletter Shows Problems in Republican Party
I remember when I was a college student at The University of Kentucky writing in the campus paper. ...
Is a Black Harvard Student an Accessory to Murder, or Just Caught Up in One?
From the "I'm still skeptical" file: Why is it that the only black people we've heard about when it ...
Blacks and Irish Missed an Opportunity to Work Together
I'm looking out the window of my apartment in Harlem, and I don't see too many folks walking ...
N.J. Wal-Mart Under Investigation for Racist Message
An announcement telling black shoppers to leave the building at a New Jersey Wal-Mart has ...
Black and Missing: Have You Seen This Person?
Donald Alva Oliver Case Type: Endangered Date of Birth: November 21, 1985 Missing Date: January 1, ...
T.D. Jakes' Prison Rehabilitation Program
Roland Martin and Richelle Carey are two of my favorite faces on CNN. Both of them should have ...
Charles Moore, Photographer of the Civil Rights Movement, Dead at 79
The pictures that Charles Moore took helped catapult one of the most important movements in ...
Census 2010: The Rigged Counting Game Begins
As the counting of the nation's population begins this week with the 2010 census, one question ...
Texas Board of Education Says Hip Hop Is Not a Cultural Movement
The Texas State Board of Education apparently doesn't believe that hip-hop should be considered a ...
Jeremiah Wright Says He Still Loves Barack Obama
Most of you remember Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the pastor thrust out in to the media during the ...
Lesbian Soldier Discharged Due to Police Bigmouths
Lesbian Air Force Sergeant Jene Newsome was a poster child for how the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" ...
Alleged al-Qaida Terrorist Worked at Five Nuclear Plants
Sharif Mobley, a New Jersey man arrested in a sweep of al-Qaida operatives in Yemen, worked at ...
Clarence Thomas' Wife Becomes one of the Tea Partiers
Virginia Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, raised eyebrows recently when she ...
Obama Donates Nobel Prize Winnings
For all of those who questioned why President Obama received the Nobel Peace Prize, (me included) ...
New York Attorney General Withdraws from David Paterson Probe
Responding to pressure from critics, Attorney General Andrew Cuomo recused himself from the probe ...
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