Opinion

Why the Confederate flag is still flying high

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How HBCUs have learned to go green

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Green movement returns to grassroots on Earth Day

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Scaled back environmental regulations put blacks in peril

OPINON - Three of every five individuals of African-American or Latino background live in communities with 1 or more toxic…
/ April 22, 2011

Earth Day: We need to take our power back

OPINION - The health and wealth of our communities are under attack. Not because these companies want us to suffer…
/ April 22, 2011

Can Obama keep hope alive for re-election in 2012?

OPINION - What's clear is that Obama's numbers are being weighed down by economic insecurity, rising prices, particularly at the…
/ April 22, 2011

Tyler Perry thumbs nose at critics with new 'Madea' movie

REVIEW - You don't go to Madea movies for complex character driven narratives, you go for the laughs...
/ April 22, 2011

How Tyler Perry exposes divide in black America

OPINION - Love him or hate him, he gets us thinking and talking, and maybe that will be his greatest…
/ April 21, 2011

Trump forces GOP to come clean on birtherism

OPINION - Unfortunately, the GOP's long standing see no evil, hear no evil stance on the birther movement has already…
/ April 21, 2011

Harvard has more black students than ever, but are they African-American?

OPINION - The irony is that the multicultural inclusiveness that is desired by colleges and universities is the same thing…
/ April 21, 2011

Rapper to declare 'I'm Gay' with new album title

OPINION - Lil' B may not have a keen understanding of the lyricism it takes to have a prolonged rap…
/ April 20, 2011

One year later: Gulf Coast is still not whole

OPINION - For 153 days, Gulf communities suffered as their economic, environmental and health care realities were shaken...
/ April 20, 2011

'God disguised as Michael Jordan': The 63-point game turns 25

OPINION - So good was Jordan on this day that nobody seems to remember that he went for 49 points…
/ April 20, 2011

Pro athletes curiously silent on Sexual Assault Awareness

OPINION - Young boys and men constitute a great majority of the fans, and it's this demographic that requires more…
/ April 20, 2011

Why the Obama chimp email is no laughing matter

OPINION - The depiction of the nation's first black president as an ape or a monkey has been used against…
/ April 19, 2011