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OPINION – It depends on whether there is a willingness to take a lesson from the playbook of Harold Washington, Chicago’s first and only elected black mayor…
OPINION – No one can really object with a straight face to encouraging healthier lifestyles. Yet, somehow, the right-wing has managed to do so…
OPINION – Rep. West not only shames black people when he utters offensive statements. He also tarnishes the proud and honorable legacy of black Republicans…
OPINION – Over fifty years later, ‘The Montgomery Story’ has been given new life — in the Arab world…
OPINION – These racial gaffes and smears may tell us about the character of these candidates, or lack thereof, yet reveal far more about the Republican Party…
OPINION – Carol Moseley Braun benefits from her status as the consensus candidate of the black community…
OPINION – Michael Reagan argues that his father was more of a friend to black people than President Obama…
OPINION – Sharpton has proven that black leadership is useful and even necessary on the outside, even when the most powerful leader in the free world is a black man…
OPINION – The recent assassination attempt on Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is all the proof you need that America’s political climate is out of control…
OPINION – Republicans are making Obama their ‘whipping boy’ and perpetuating the voter fraud myth for two reasons…
OPINION – Having more than one African-American competitor almost certainly guarantees that Chicago will not have a black mayor this time around…
SLIDESHOW – In light of the bad economy and attacks on Obama from all directions, the public has lost sight of the many accomplishments of the nation’s first black president…
OPINION – Meeks is dead wrong to think that blacks are the only minorities, and the only people facing discrimination. But with that said, he does speak some truths…
OPINION – Depending on your point of view, the tax plan is either the best the public could have expected under the circumstances or the worst thing imaginable…
OPINION – What is troubling about this glorification of secession, and the efforts to preserve it, is its whitewashing of slavery, if not its total elimination from the equation…
OPINION – The situation regarding diversity in the upper chamber of Congress, or the lack of it, is troubling to say the least…
OPINION – The chances increase substantially if the black community takes a page from history and thinks strategically…
OPINION – President Bush, if you want to sell books, go on with your bad self. But don’t use Kanye as your whipping boy…
OPINON – People who believe their vote does not make a difference may be encouraged to know that in many close contests across the U.S., they can sway the race…
OPINION – After this unfair and unwarranted attack on Shirley Sherrod, Breitbart should have faded into obscurity, never to be heard from again…