Media’s Rush to Get It First Opens Door to Racial Profiling
Dead air. It’s the bane of a broadcaster’s existence. Dead air is that pause that is too long, that allows listeners or viewers to change…
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COMMENTARY: Obama Says He Didn’t Help Arrange Jay-Z/Beyonce’s Cuba Trip: We’ve Got Better Things to Do’
President Barack Obama said pointblank that he knew nothing about rapper Jay-Z and Beyonce’s high-profile vacation to Cuba this month – a trip that caused…
CNN’s John King Falsely Calls Boston Bomb Suspect ‘Dark-Skinned Male’
CNN’s John King showed the worst kind of journalism Wednesday when he made controversial racial assumptions and falsely reported on-air that the suspect in the…
COMMENTARY: White Golfer Goes Nuts, Attacks Black Golfers Then Threatens to Stab Them
Racism found its way onto a Long Island, New York golf course last week after a white golfer went berserk, yelled the N-word at two…
Tragedy Deserves More Than 140 Characters and a Hashtag
So many things that we say sound like clichés when we run them off almost with not thought. “Tomorrow isn’t promised,” “make every moment count,” …
Airline Asks Black Men to Take Off Their Hoodies in First Class While White Men Wore Same Outfits
Was it blatant racism or a simple misunderstanding that prevented two African American men from traveling in the first class cabin of U.S. Airways while…
DMX: Can This Brother Be Saved?
“It is easier to raise strong children than repair broken men.” – Frederick Douglass Douglass said those words years ago, but their wisdom is timeless.…
Are Guns Necessary? Araminta Harriet Ross Would Say ‘Yes’ and So Should You
Some 100 years after her death, Araminta Harriet Ross is finally getting her props. You know Ross better as Harriet Tubman, that bold sister who…
Parenting Gay Children: Choose Love Above All
Last week the world learned what basketball great Magic Johnson and his wife Cookie had known for many years—that their son, Earvin Magic Johnson, Jr.…
Iyanla: How You Can Do Better
Living a wholistic life means taking care of all aspects of your being so that means your mind, your body, your heart or your emotional…
