Opinion

From Usher to D-Wade: Is there a celebrity daddy double standard?

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On Bernice King’s recent anti-LGBT remarks

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Henrietta Lacks’ family deserves reparations

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Usher’s ‘ugly’ child custody battle back in court

OPINION - The only 'side' to be on in the ongoing Usher Raymond vs. Tameka Raymond saga is the side…
/ August 9, 2013

Blacks less likely to get weight loss surgery: Is it cultural?

ANALYSIS - Study co-authors theorize that whites receive the surgery more often in part because of discrepancies in health insurance…
/ August 8, 2013

Rap imagery, Trayvon Martin and why Bill O’Reilly is half right

OPINION - It is a catastrophe that violent rap imagery has become the dominant portrait of African-American masculinity, and that…
/ August 8, 2013

Riley Cooper, a lesson in both prejudice and forgiveness

OPINION - This isn't to say Cooper was supposed to go on some national anti-N word campaign around the NFL…
/ August 8, 2013

DREAMing of a better future

OPINION - No nation that condemns young people to a life of limitation is living up to its most deeply…
/ August 8, 2013

Obama’s March on Washington speech will be one of the most important of his presidency

ANALYSIS - The address President Obama delivers later this month at the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington could…
/ August 8, 2013

Rand Paul dares to engage on race and deserves credit for it

OPINION - What I give Rand Paul credit for is trying to reestablish credibility by getting outside of his comfort…
/ August 7, 2013

Michelle Obama gets the last laugh with ‘Let’s Move’

OPINION - Maybe teaching our kids to exercise and eat healthy isn’t a communist plot lead by nanny state dictator…
/ August 7, 2013

Obama’s Larry Summers problem

ANALYSIS - If President Obama picks Larry Summers as the next chairman of the Federal Reserve, as he is considering,…
/ August 7, 2013

Why Chris Brown isn’t really retiring

OPINION - Oh Breezy, you’re so dramatic. Of course no one is taking this 'probable' retirement shtick from a 24-year-old…
/ August 7, 2013

New book lionizes America’s first black public high school, source of many African-American greats

REVIEW - Founded in 1870, Dunbar High has produced many of the nation’s pioneering black "firsts," African-Americans who broke through…
/ August 6, 2013

Democracy still fragile on anniversary of Voting Rights Act signing

OPINION - During these last few years we have witnessed an unprecedented assault on the right to vote...
/ August 6, 2013