Michael Cottman
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 about four blocks from Obama’s house. Police said it’s likely that German’s death was gang-related. Days after his murder, no arrests have been made – and nobody’s talking. A few […]
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 conservatives to lose their minds by implying that Obama somehow arranged the celebrity couple’s visit to the communist island. “This is not something the White House was involved with. We’ve […]
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 deadly Boston Marathon bombings was a “dark-skinned male.” King was wrong and irresponsible. Law enforcement officials immediately refuted King’s report and, in fact, CBS News reported that the suspect is […]
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 black golfers, attacked one of the black players with a golf club, and then threatened to stab him. The reason for the unprovoked racial attack: The black players apparently weren’t […]
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 wearing hoodies and jeans? You decide. Two black passengers, Miles and MacCraig Warren, are suing U.S. Airways for racial discrimination after an airline gate agent refused to allow them to […]
NEW YORK -Sabrina and Tracy Martin, the mother and father of slain teenager Trayvon Martin, are parents in pain; a soft-spoken, spiritual couple on a crusade for truth and justice. “We just want to do what’s right,” Tracy Martin told BlackAmericaWeb in an exclusive interview. “We just want to do the right thing.” For Martin, […]
As a father of a teenage daughter, I was particularly alarmed to learn that a 9-year-old girl was sexually abused during a lunch break in a Harlem school – and the crime went unpunished because the principal never called the police or investigated the allegations. The girl’s mother told The New York Daily News that […]
Beverly Hall, the former Atlanta public schools superintendent, is a self-serving scam artist who should be jailed for cheating black students out of their rightful education. The children in Hall’s school district deserve better – especially black children who are struggling to learn. It’s unconscionable that a powerful public school administrator like Hall would spend […]
Ben Carson, the world-renowned African American neurosurgeon, could be the new black face of the Republican Party. Considered a rising star in the conservative movement, Carson has implied that he’s open to running for president and proved he certainly isn’t shy about criticizing President Barack Obama. Carson, 61, who grew up in Detroit, says Obama […]
Fanatics want to kill Michael Vick. Vick, the embattled Philadelphia Eagles quarterback, was forced to cancel his book signing tour this week because of mounting death threats. His book is called “Finally Free,” but apparently some people still want Vick to pay for his previous mistakes. The bigots won’t leave Vick alone. He paid his […]
I’m completely disgusted with Kwame Kilpatrick. He’s a thief and a liar who betrayed the black residents of Detroit who expected so much and received so little. The former mayor of Detroit who emerged with so much promise was found guilty Monday on 24 counts of racketeering, conspiracy and extortion and a judge ordered Kilpatrick directly […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: BlackAmericaWeb.com is starting a new occasional feature called “Five Minutes with the President.” We’re asking African Americans to tell us what they would ask President Barack Obama if they had five minutes with him in the White House. In this era of fiscal uncertainty, high unemployment, a congressional sequester that is threatening to […]
