'Django Unchained': A Postracial Epic?

Dec 26, 2012

As all of the Django Unchained reviews hit the Internet, I'm sure plenty of African Americans will list why they hate Quentin Tarantino's new film about a slave's journey for revenge -- but not me. A friend and I recently...

S. Carolina Names Tea Party-backed Af. American to US Senate

Dec 17, 2012

South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley today named U.S. Rep. Tim Scott, a black Tea Party Republican, to serve out the remaining term of U.S. Senator Jim DeMint, who is resigning from the Congress to head the conservative Heritage Foundation."It is...

Urban Lives Saved by Suburban Gun Mayhem

Dec 17, 2012

Shortly after the Jovan Belcher tragedy I was asked on a television program whether or not the NFL player's high-profile murder-suicide and sports announcer Bob Costas' courageous comments about gun violence in the incident's aftermath would have any impact on...

Can Black Clergy Reframe AIDS Fight?

Dec 15, 2012

  From Martin Luther King Jr. and the fight for civil rights in the 1960s to Rev. Al Sharpton and the fight against racial profiling and police brutality today, members of the clergy have been key leaders in some of...

King Memorial to Lose Controversial Quote

Dec 14, 2012

Ken Salazar, the U.S. Secretary of the Interior, said on Tuesday that alterations will be made to a controversial paraphrase carved into the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Memorial located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.The plan, which must...

Blacks Still Go Hungry

Dec 14, 2012

As millions of families gather for marathon eating sessions across the nation this holiday season, Black families will worry about where their next meal is coming from at a rate that is twice that of Whites, according to the U.S....

Fired From TV for Explaining Black Hair?

Dec 12, 2012

A black female meteorologist has been fired from the ABC affiliate in Shreveport, La. because she responded to a racial remark posted by a viewer on the station's Facebook page.KTBS-TV's action against Rhonda Lee followed a previous response by Lee...

Campus Police Kill Bipolar Graduate Student

Dec 12, 2012

California State University-San Bernadino police on Saturday shot to death an unarmed black graduate student who suffered from a bipolar disorder. The student was shot during a fight with police inside a campus building.The university police fired five shots at...

What Will Obama Do About Marijuana?

Dec 12, 2012

  In January 2004, then-Illinois state Sen. Barack Obama declared that "the war on drugs has been an utter failure. We need to rethink and decriminalize our marijuana laws ... we need to rethink how we're operating in the drug...