Commentary

My cousin Robyn is a beautiful young girl on the verge of womanhood, with a quirky sense of humor, a curious mind and a sweetness that I pray she never loses. Just 14, she’s the spitting image of her mother, my first cousin, Sheryn.  Robyn is loved by everyone in the family–especially her parents and […]

In the latest addition of “umm, that’s racist,” meet Sen. Frank Ruff of Virginia, a GOP state senator who invoked the racial slur “tar baby” to…

Did someone confess to the murder of Kendrick Johnson? I hope investigators are one step closer to determining what happened to Johnson. The 17-year-old high school student from Valdosta, Georgia was found in a rolled-up mat in the Lowndes High School gymnasium on January 11, 2013. Investigators with the sheriff’s office ruled his death accidental, […]

Bill O’Reilly is obsessed with criticizing Beyonce – for all the wrong reasons. And it’s getting old. O’Reilly, the conservative Fox News commentator, has unleashed a continuing campaign against Beyonce for her “raunchy” videos that O’Reilly says young girls – many of whom are Beyonce’s fans — should not watch. He has criticized Beyonce on […]

Last weekend, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (pictured) employed compassion and critical thinking in her critique of her party. Speaking before a reported “cheering…

For iPhone; I ask because not so long ago, had I said a celebrity had been kicked out of rehab again and had to report back to jail, the first person you’d think I was talking about was Lindsay Lohan. Why?— In and out of rehab, jail, fights, nightclub scuffles, odd pictures on the internet, […]

Congressional Black Caucus chair Marcia Fudge is unabashedly holding Rep. Paul Ryan’s feet to the fire. It’s a welcomed move by a formidable leader on Capitol Hill. Fudge deserves our support — and praise. “If he wants to believe that the only way to cure poverty is to just get rid of all the poor people, […]

For iPhone users: For the past few days we have been inundated with mysteries and tragedies in the news. One is the mysterious disappearance of an airplane. One of the tragedies is the violent explosion of two residential buildings right here in New York City. In both instances lives and attitudes changed immediately. Paul Weeks […]

Perhaps someone needs to organize a march to protest the King family mess. Bernice King, the daughter of  Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., held a press conference last week where she pleaded with her brothers not to sell their father’s Bible and Nobel Peace Prize. “I implore you to consider the magnitude of this moment […]

If I were to tell anyone of color with a clue that White children are given the benefit of the doubt and Black kids are…

On the third season of the popular WEtv Mary Mary reality show,  singer Tina Campbell found out some surprising news about her husband Teddy. Despite four kids, while she was on the road touring with her sister, he was also touring….other women’s beds. When Tina found out, she was understandably upset, and it plays out ugly […]

For iPhone users: We first learned and I first reported on the power of Black Twitter back in the summer after the George Zimmerman verdict. Remember Juror B-37, the first to speak out after the George Zimmerman trial? She had clinched a deal to write a book about her experiences during the trial. That was […]