Opinion

How do we solve a problem like health care reform?

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Zombies: Yes, they're fun pop fodder, but their history is steeped in slavery

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6 days left: Obama maintains very narrow advantage

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Hollywood must stop ignoring the overweight, black woman as love interest

OPINION - White filmmakers have ignored her, while their black counterparts, such as Tyler Perry, Eddie Murphy, and Martin Lawrence,…
/ October 30, 2012

Black America, Barack Obama, and the racial backlash

OPINION - Many, including whites and blacks, are pointing to Obama’s ethnicity as a deciding or at least informing factor—albeit…
/ October 28, 2012

Big Bird, Binders, and Bayonets: Psychographic marketing and the 2012 presidential election

OPINION - Political candidates such as Romney are now using many psychological and marketing tactics to increase their likelihood of…
/ October 26, 2012

Pictures of Zoe Saldana transformed to resemble Nina Simone spark new discussions of coming biopic

OPINION - Dark makeup, a wooly afro wig and what appears to be a dental implant have sparked new discussions…
/ October 26, 2012

On Election Day it’s white voters vs. everyone else

OPINION - Looking at the polls, this presidential election season is poised to give birth to the most racially polarized…
/ October 25, 2012

What Obama and Romney must do to win

ANALYSIS - With polls showing effectively a tied race, here are the big keys for the two candidates in the…
/ October 24, 2012

On facing two years in jail for protesting stop-and-frisk

OPINION - In this watershed moment, when stop-and-frisk is opening a window onto the daily plight of thousands, the very…
/ October 23, 2012

Breast Cancer Awareness Month: True life — I got a mammogram

ESSAY - Now that I know my status, I challenge other millennials to convince a doctor to conduct the mammogram.…
/ October 23, 2012

NBA ‘handshake ban’ is out of line and unnecessary

OPINION - The NBA has seen a renaissance in the last decade, as the league is now filled with marketable…
/ October 23, 2012

Final presidential debate exposes the real Mitt Romney

OPINION - Now, after the final debate, we learn that the Romney target marketing department believes its newest customer, the…
/ October 23, 2012

On his signature set of issues, Obama puts Romney on defensive

ANALYSIS - The final side-by-side between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama was at times not really a debate...
/ October 22, 2012

Study proves black LGBT community no longer invisible

OPINION - Black LGBT people are here and they’re here to stay. However, nothing is more important for full equality…
/ October 22, 2012