Obama cringed in horror at the absurd notion that he is a Marxist. But tossing the damaging political label at him is more than just a calculated political ploy to smear and taint Obama. It taps into the deeply held belief that Obama can and will actually mug the rich.

President Obama never encouraged the media concocted, adman’s fantasy land, comparison of him to Franklin Delano Roosevelt. But with the Massachusetts vote debacle smacking him in the face, his only hope for rebound is to really act like FDR

Obama would be an easy target for King, says commentator Earl Ofari Hutchinson. Under Obama, one in three blacks is poor, and the president doesn't appear to be plannning to do anything about it.

Senate Majority leader Harry Reid apologized profusely for his unguarded quip that Obama’s light skin and non-Negro dialect put him in good standing with him and by implication with other whites. NAM's Earl Ofari Hutchinson argues Reid spoke the awful truth that millions did give Obama a racial pass.

Vanity Fair made it official. Tiger Woods is now a member in good standing in the pantheon of gang banging, drive by shooting, menacing, thug life, sexually on-the-make, young black males.

Are Muslim-only lines at airports next? The thought is offensive, disgusting, and blatantly unconstitutional. But it’s hardly far-fetched.

Blacks and Hispanics have the most to gain from real reform. They make up more than half of America’s uninsured. And they will be the big losers in a failed reform effort.

Getting the world’s richest and poorest nations to cut a deal on climate control that both sides can live with has never been easy. Rich industrial nations did the damage to the economies of poor nations. The burden is on them to undo it.

African Americans are the hardest hit by the economic meltdown. But President Obama needs to grapple with the fact that the problem of joblessness among African Americans was dire even before the economy tanked.

The moment Tiger Woods did life-threatening damage to a tree and a fire hydrant, the beat down by the media started with a vengeance, writes commentator Earl Ofari Hutchinson.

The U.S. Supreme Court banned teen executions, but the United States still locks up more juveniles for life without the possibility of parole than all nations combined.

The pattern in the shocking murder of Flor Medrano in Mid-City Los Angeles was all too familiar. There was long-term abuse by her sometime boyfriend. The abuse included verbal and physical assaults and accusations of rape.

Leading Democrats and Republicans and the major pharmaceuticals and private insurance companies know one thing: The Senate, not the House, will decide what, if any, health care reform plan is finally approved.

Since 9-11, American Muslims have been the repeated targets of verbal digs, physical assaults, and profiling. Now, the Ft. Hood shootings are stirring the anti-Muslim scapegoating and discrimination.

Civil rights was the issue of the day for Martin Luther King, Jr. Now, it's gay rights. As Bernice King carries on her father's legacy and work, she must renounce her anti-gay bigotry.

In the 1980s, Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., voted to impose harsh sentencing for crack cocaine. Now he says he “made a mistake 20 years ago,” and is introducing legislation to remove the disparity between crack and powdered cocaine possession. But the fact that his bill is not retroactive means that the Fairness in Sentencing Act is anything but fair.

On October 13, the U.S. Coast Guard nabbed 18 persons off Mission Bay near San Diego. All 18 were foreign nationals being smuggled into the country. That story drew scant press attention, but it was noteworthy that they were captured at all.

Sixteen-year-old Derrion Albert was the latest of the more than 40 young people who have been murdered in Chicago, many within a stone’s throw of the president’s former home.

The bitter truth is that President Obama can’t talk about race even if he wants to. This has absolutely nothing to do with his mixed racial upbringing, or his straddle of many worlds. It has everything to do with politics.

Politicians, the media and the public have largely ignored the crisis of poverty in the United States, possibly because the poor don't have an active political lobby to represent their interests.

Tedmund Hall and Arnaldo Quinones, the two fallen California firefighters, deserve all the accolades state officials have bestowed upon them for acting quickly and resolutely to save the lives of the inmate firefighters. Inmates who for years have risked their lives to fight fires and save lives should get the some acknowledgment, too, says NAM contributor Earl Ofari Hutchinson.