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5 ways Cam Newton can silence his critics

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How the royal wedding reflects on America's 'black elite'

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Multiracial cast of 'Fast Five' makes it a milestone film

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Why Obama can't escape America's great 'birth defect'

OPINION - We cannot grow stronger, richer and faster as a nation if we continue on this course of hate…
/ April 28, 2011

Enough already! Royal wedding fever can make you sick

OPINION - In the last two weeks everything I've watched on TV has either mentioned the royal wedding directly or…
/ April 28, 2011

Cam Newton can't be distracted by draft day haters

OPINION - Questioning Newton's mechanics or run-first style of play is one thing -- but calling a guy that you've…
/ April 28, 2011

Why Obama shouldn't have had to 'show his papers'

OPINION - When they tell you this isn't racial, don't believe them. This controversy was constructed solely as a way…
/ April 28, 2011

Hip-hop has-beens sink to new lows to reach old heights

OPINION - Hip-hop hasn't had a blueprint for what its aging stars are supposed to do once the demand for…
/ April 28, 2011

Is Obama an 'affirmative action president'?

OPINION - Demanding that the president produce his college transcript, like demanding that he show his birth certificate, is an…
/ April 27, 2011

Why Mumia Abu-Jamal's second chance at life matters

OPINION - Anti-death penalty advocates have long argued that Abu-Jamal's 1982 trial was unfair, and that the application of the…
/ April 27, 2011

Tyler Perry continues TV takeover with 'Why Did I Get Married?' spinoff

OPINION - 'Why Did I Get Married?' was the olive branch of civility Perry offered to the upper-middle class blacks…
/ April 26, 2011

'Pause': Is this catchphrase homophobic or humorous?

OPINION - 'Pause' and 'no homo' are used to distance one's self from all things homosexual, real or perceived...
/ April 26, 2011

'Sweet Sweetback' at 40: The birth of modern black film revisited

OPINION - Times have changed, yet some of the circumstances surrounding black filmmaking have not...
/ April 26, 2011

How Haley Barbour was hamstrung by civil rights blunders

OPINION - Even if Barbour did not tote a storage locker of personal and political baggage, his candidacy would still…
/ April 26, 2011

Will a settlement settle the Bishop Eddie Long sex scandal?

OPINION - 'You ain't messin' with me. I shall rise again, and I ain't going through this,' Long thundered at…
/ April 26, 2011