Opinion

Will black contractors be sidelined in BP spill clean up?

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Will ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ repeal start new ‘separate but equal’?

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Obama caught between BP and a hard place

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Bill Maher’s joke on Obama’s blackness reveals serious ignorance

OPINION - Apparently Bill Maher, the ultra-liberal talk show host who both entertains and annoys me, doesn't understand what it…
/ June 1, 2010

Forget Kobe, Rondo is the real player to watch

OPINION - The Celtics point guard has matured in front of our very own eyes during the 2010 NBA playoffs...
/ June 1, 2010

Glenn Beck hits new low with Malia Obama attack

OPINION - It is one thing to criticize someone's policies, and it's another to attack the intelligence of your enemy's…
/ May 28, 2010

Gary Coleman’s life: More tragedy than comedy

OPINION - For all the joy that he brought his legions of television fans, he never quite captured it in…
/ May 28, 2010

Janelle Monáe’s moment in the spotlight is worth the wait

OPINION - Monáe's superlative debut not only transcends genres -- but mediums of art...
/ May 28, 2010

Four ways Obama can stop oil spill from consuming his presidency

OPINION - The goal of the Obama administration should not be to emerge from this situation looking good, that's simply…
/ May 28, 2010

How Jamaica became a hotbed for drug violence

OPINION - The catalysts of the civil unrest now unfolding in Jamaica include decades of corrupt politics...
/ May 27, 2010

Immigration reform must follow Dr. King’s multicultural blueprint

OPINION - At no time in history has a single liberation movement advanced or been sustained by the interest of…
/ May 26, 2010

Colorlines blurred in immigration fight

OPINION - African-Americans and Latinos must realize that they share common historical trajectories...
/ May 26, 2010

Why the oil spill is not Obama’s Katrina

OPINION - The GOP's political attack plan is crude and transparent. Compare the Gulf spill to Bush's Katrina bumble, liken…
/ May 26, 2010

From farm girl to ‘Foxy Brown’: Pam Grier tells all

REVIEW - The previously private Grier finally lets loose in her new memoir 'Foxy: My Life in Three Acts' and…
/ May 26, 2010

The myth of a black-brown coalition on immigration

OPINION - It's time for black leaders to stand on the side of black citizens and legal immigrants over lawbreakers…
/ May 25, 2010