Opinion

Haley Barbour needs a civil rights history lesson

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Why are we still supporting R. Kelly?

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Will HIV 'cure' reach the people who need it most?

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BET's 30 years of missed opportunities

OPINION - If you happen to watch BET Sunday evening and planned to see their 30-year anniversary show, you might…
/ December 21, 2010

DADT repeal won't be as tough as military integration

OPINION - The repeal will take time to fully work itself through military policy from top to bottom. But it…
/ December 20, 2010

Why won't Obama pardon Jack Johnson?

OPINION - If and when the pardon comes, it surely will be 100 years too late...
/ December 20, 2010

'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' repeal: Final frontier of the civil rights movement?

OPINION - Much like those who marched the streets of Detroit, Chicago, Selma and Montgomery -- we must believe...
/ December 19, 2010

Why the repeal of 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' is a teachable moment

OPINION - When the Senate voted this afternoon, the men and women of our Armed Services finally felt free to…
/ December 18, 2010

Chicago mayoral campaign stung by affirmative action scandal

OPINION - Meeks is dead wrong to think that blacks are the only minorities, and the only people facing discrimination.…
/ December 17, 2010

'The Color Purple' 25 years later: From controversy to classic

OPINION - The success of 'The Color Purple' in publishing, Hollywood and on Broadway only proves that, in dreaming a…
/ December 17, 2010

White supremacists wage war on Marvel over 'Thor'

OPINION - Be mad that another comic book is being made into a movie, not mad at a studio for…
/ December 16, 2010

Mario Perez: In defense of the DREAM Act

OPINION - Although Mario is frightened of the prospect of being deported to a country he doesn't know, he is…
/ December 16, 2010

Why we should support the biggest prison strike in US history

OPINION - The participants in this labor pool are not given a choice, they are forced into corporate servitude...
/ December 16, 2010

Ga. prisoner protest puts spotlight on institutionalized slavery

OPINION - The sharp growth in incarceration has left more black people in prison today than there were black people…
/ December 15, 2010

Is decline in US segregation proof of post-racial society?

OPINION - The decline in black-white residential segregation is not an equal opportunity phenomenon...
/ December 15, 2010