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Who will be the next great African leader?

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How white artists keep black music alive

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Why so many fans have Chris Brown's back

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'Beats, Rhymes & Life': A fine and fair tribute to A Tribe Called Quest

REVIEW - The film makes an earnest effort to give the legendary hip-hop quartet its props, while critically looking at…
/ July 15, 2011

Is Obama winning the debt war by playing tough?

OPINION - The president's supporters have been urging him to do grow a backbone, or at least find the one…
/ July 15, 2011

Why can't more sports stars champion gay rights?

OPINION - Michael Irvin's words are a stark lesson for the kind of bigotry that is too often tolerated in…
/ July 14, 2011

Republicans would rather beat Obama than revive recovery

OPINION - If some financial catastrophe were to take place President Obama will not magically net the maximum amount of…
/ July 14, 2011

Has Beyoncé's dad darkened her destiny?

OPINION - In a world where 'the black father as hero' is so desperately needed, Mathew Knowles has let us…
/ July 14, 2011

Miscarriage of justice for some pregnant women

OPINION - Surely the irony of threatening to leave three real-life children motherless by putting a young woman behind bars…
/ July 13, 2011

Kanye and Jay-Z 's 'Watch the Throne': Subject to too much hype?

OPINION - When engaging in conversation of 'epicness' about an album that has yet to hit bootleggers or legal distributors…
/ July 13, 2011

'Curious Case of Curt Flood' gives baseball hero his due

REVIEW - I can only imagine what would professional sports would be like without Curtis Flood...
/ July 12, 2011

Can we believe in the gospel according to Herman Cain?

OPINION - When the communion plate comes around in the church of Cain, it'd be in America's best interest to…
/ July 12, 2011

How 'Boyz n the Hood' remains relevant 20 years later

OPINION - 'Boyz n the Hood' seems to ask this still relevant question: Sure we all have to go sometime,…
/ July 12, 2011

Contrary to popular opinion: Deficit cuts are colorblind

OPINION - Most Americans, believing the mythology of rugged individualism and bootstrap levitation, refuse to believe they benefit from government…
/ July 12, 2011

Are new voter ID laws Jim Crow by another name?

OPINION - As a civil rights lawyer who works in the trenches, I am well aware of the barriers that…
/ July 11, 2011