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…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
Who Killed Kendrick Johnson?
Who killed Kendrick Johnson? Nobody knows. Or at least nobody is talking. And police investigators are no closer to solving Johnson’s death today. Johnson, a…
Will Obama Ever Return to His Gun-Violent Neighborhood?
Urban gun violence is edging ever closer to President Barack Obama’s Chicago home. Last week, 15-year-old Cornelius German was shot and killed in a backyard…
