Opinion

Black men short-changed in the job market

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Our kids can’t see themselves on TV

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Olympics bid squanders Obama’s political capital

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Will race be Obama’s Achilles’ heel in 2012?

OPINION - Last week, Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty took his first steps toward a 2012 White House challenge, reminding us…
/ October 6, 2009

Reality hits ‘Real Housewives’

OPINION - It is becoming increasingly apparent that the lives of these Real Housewives are much more real than the…
/ October 5, 2009

Why Nike will just do it and sign Michael Vick

OPINION - The truth is that I don't believe a single word of the Nike dismissal. They know that Vick…
/ October 5, 2009

Our kids are a bigger threat to themselves than KKK ever was

OPINION - Chicago, once a haven for black culture and economic progress, has become more dangerous for black youth than…
/ October 2, 2009

Even the ‘Obama Effect’ can’t win Olympics for Chicago

OPINION - Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele and GOP critics recently denounced the President's Olympic bid trip...
/ October 2, 2009

‘Brothers’ has potential, but may not go the distance

OPINION - The "Brothers" writers have exceptional talent to call upon, yet, in football parlance, they are afraid to stretch…
/ October 2, 2009

New black Barbies break the mold

OPINION - In the era of Obama and in the age of Oprah come three new potentially iconic Americans, who…
/ October 2, 2009

Rockford killing highlights national dilemma with police conduct

OPINION - The United States remains the only country in the Western world without national standards for the use of…
/ October 1, 2009

Chicago lives behind a veil of violence

OPINION - I wish I could say that what happened to Derrion Albert was a new phenomenon. Unfortunately, such acts…
/ October 1, 2009

Two sides of Chicago: Olympic dream vs. violent nightmare

OPINION - As Chicago aims to paint a picture of itself as a safe, clean and cosmopolitan metropolis, many of…
/ September 30, 2009

Obama: president or product?

OPINION - Nine months after his ascension to the White House, President Obama is still an international phenomenon and quite…
/ September 30, 2009

Violent America makes for violent youth

OPINION - We should abhor the actions of the young men who killed 16-year-old Chicago student Derrion Albert, but we…
/ September 30, 2009