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ANALYSIS: Obama to Morehouse Men: Don’t Let the World ‘Keep a Black Man Down’
President Barack Obama traveled to Atlanta Sunday and delivered a rare yet impassioned speech at Morehouse College about race and the evolution of black men…
Michael H. Cottman, BlackAmericaWeb.com
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COMMENTARY: Revelations or Ridiculousness? Black Pastors Star in Reality TV Show
Would you really want your pastor – and your congregation – to star in a reality television show? I’m not knocking the six black pastors…
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ANALYSIS: Eric Holder Has Some ‘Splainin’ to Do
I tend to believe Eric Holder, the embattled U.S. Attorney General, when he says he played no direct role in the Justice Department’s secret probe…
Michael Cottman
COMMENTARY: Tiki Barber Dumped Pregnant Wife and Now Asks: Why Don’t People Like Me?
Tiki Barber, the former NFL running back who dumped his pregnant wife for a 23-year-old intern, wants us to believe that he’s doing some serious…
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COMMENTARY: Charles Ramsey: American Hero or Racial Healer?
Charles Ramsey is a legitimate American hero. He doesn’t want fame. He doesn’t want money. He’s an unassuming, raspy-voiced dishwasher with a refreshing desire to…
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COMMENTARY: Are Deion Jr.’s Versace Sheets Over the Top or Fitting For ‘Prime Time’s’ Son?
Deion Sanders Jr. is just a freshman at Southern Methodist University but he’s already living large by sleeping on gold satin Versace sheets in his…
Commentary
ANALYSIS: ‘A President for Everyone. Except Black People’; A Pastor’s Message for Obama
Tension is mounting at Morehouse College. As President Barack Obama prepares to deliver a commencement address at Morehouse, a prominent Philadelphia minister who wrote a…
Michael Cottman
ANALYSIS: Blacks Get Poorer as Whites Average Six Times the Wealth as People of Color
The ever-widening wealth gap between African Americans and whites just got wider. According to a new study by the Urban Institute’s Opportunity and Ownership Project,…
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Obama Hopes to Add Color to Cabinet With Third Black Member
If all goes well for President Barack Obama, there will be three African Americans in the president’s White House Cabinet. Obama will have three black…
Michael Cottman
Ex-Rep and Mother of Kwame Kilpatrick Presides Over Alien, UFO Hearings
I once admired Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, the former U.S. Rep. from Detroit, but now I’m questioning her reasoning. In Washington, D.C. this week, Cheeks, who…
