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OPINION – A swift kick to the backside, or ‘tough love’ as CNN anchor Don Lemon calls it, will not tear down the strictures of race, class and gender in this country…
ESSAY – Every Independence Day I think of the other young black boys, who never had a real chance to become men…
OPINION – The Atlanta cheating scandal is about real life, a real ‘wire’ — real children and all too real consequences…
OPINION – As a former Marine, I also understand that progress takes time…
OPINION – A brief separation, then a Thanksgiving reconciliation. Others say he was upset that she had gone to a concert with friends the evening before. We will never know…
OPINION – Many, including whites and blacks, are pointing to Obama’s ethnicity as a deciding or at least informing factor—albeit for different reasons. Ironically, both groups point to racial prejudice as the culprit…
OPINION – Mitt Romney has a new groove. Don’t worry. Nobody taught the former Massachusetts governor how to Dougie. Earlier today, the Romney campaign announced the formation of its Black Leadership Council…
OPINION – The alleged infidelity is between you, your wife and your God. It’s time for you to go home and deal with them both…
OPINION – In 1933, the word ‘uppity’ meant nothing short of a death sentence for African-Americans living in the South, and my grandfather had been publicly marked for death…
OPINION – Today’s public discourse is a sad stage of affairs, inhabited by a bevy of bad actors who have never known a day without bread — in their mouths or their pockets…
OPINION – By the time I went to work in Silicon Valley over a decade ago, before a single iPod had been made, his name was legend…
OPINION – It was Cain — a man who has likely never been to or been welcome at “Ni**erhead” — who was on the defensive today…
OPINION – For 20 years Troy Davis said they had the wrong man…
OPINION – With the current GOP field in disarray, all of them scratching for positive media attention, Trump ring-kissing appears to be en vogue…
OPINION – Generally speaking, aside from ‘The Cosby Show’, black people have a difficult time pointing to widely distributed, positive reflections of black life
OPINION – Not unlike many people facing the ultimate sentence, Troy Davis has always maintained his innocence. But, this time there’s reason to believe him…
OPINION – If we are honest with ourselves, really honest, then we will stop chucking blame over the White House fence or even at a do-nothing Congress and take some for ourselves…
OPINION – In an age when ‘Housewives’ aren’t really housewives. and celebrity can be bought with one-night stand with the latest, greatest basketball star, it’s becoming harder to find prominent role models who value traditional marriage…
OPINION – If President Obama cannot afford open displays of anger, let Maxine Waters do the job. If the Tea Party can fight, so can we…
OPINION – How can we hold this president accountable on issues specific to African-Americans and others who are disproportionately impacted by the faltering economy?…