Commentary

We know this about Republican lawmakers: Educating African -American students is not high on their list of priorities. Providing quality education for African-American and public school students of color is one of the Obama administration’s top objectives for the next two years. But if congressional Republicans have their way, massive cuts in education spending would […]

The Senate confirmation process for Loretta Lynch to become the first Black female U.S. Attorney General was never going to be a cake walk, but then again, her nomination wasn’t expected to be shot down, either. But this is a Republican-controlled Congress and many of these conservative lawmakers are vehemently opposed to anything President Barack […]

Historically Black colleges and universities are suffering in today’s environment as parents and students are electing to go elsewhere. The days of almost certainly attending a Black institution as our parents did are a thing of the past. College students today have more choices. Earlier in the month, President Barack Obama was critical of HBCUs […]

I read a series of columns lately about the various things that we do as men that bothers women. And it downright pissed me off. It seems male-bashing has become the rule, not the exception. Everything from a man’s emotional dishonesty to his supposed fear of feminist, progressive, and overachieving women, have been brought into […]

President Barack Obama met with the Congressional Black Caucus this week. While it’s a principled effort to address serious concerns and racial disparities in education, health care, employment and the criminal justice system, I question whether real progress can be made while a mean-spirited GOP-controlled Congress is poised to block Obama’s legislative agenda during his […]

If there’s any silver lining in the shameful Brian Williams lying-exaggeration-misrembering saga, it’s this: Lester Holt. Holt, the 55-year-old newsman who happens to be African-American, is getting his shot on the big stage – the NBC Nightly News anchor desk that Williams has been suspended from – without pay – for six months after revelations […]

Absence does not make the heart grow fonder. It actually breeds resentment, contentment and leaves scars that may take years to heal. Fatherhood is for life. It’s not a matter of station or wealth. It is a matter of desire, diligence and determination. Yet the idea of being a lifetime educator, guidance counselor, instructor, fiscal advisor, […]

Conservatives are ridiculously riled-up over a controversial English class at Arizona State University called “U.S. Race Theory & the Problem of Whiteness,” a social engineering course that examines perceptions of race in America. I believe Arizona State University is offering students a much-needed, progressive, thought-provoking class to stimulate intellectual discussion about cultural awareness in a nation […]

So Darren Wilson gets a pass for killing Michael Brown and blends back into society as if nothing ever happened? It looks that way. According to The New York Times, the U.S. Justice Department will likely clear Wilson of gunning down black teenager Michael Brown on Aug. 9. Wilson, the white Ferguson, Missouri police officer, […]

In an op-ed published yesterday on WhiteHouse.gov and BET.com , HHS Secretary Sylvia M. Burwell and White House Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett write about how the Affordable Care Act…

Say one thing about these feuding King kids: they have timing. The opening scene of Selma the critically acclaimed civil rights film, is of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. accepting the Nobel Prize in 1964. Unfortunately, none of King’s actual speeches could be used in the film, as the battling King siblings couldn’t come together […]

Republicans aren’t as seriously concerned about courting African Americans as they claimed to be during last year’s mid-term elections. We know it — and they know it. In yet another racially-charged and stereotypical statement directed at black people by a high-profile Republican leader, Mike Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor and a possible 2016 presidential candidate, […]