Commentary

“She’s running, but she doesn’t know it yet,” a close friend of Clinton’s recently told New York Magazine. It’s like a force of history. It’s…

WASHINGTON – All things considered, Valerie Jarrett seems unflappable. Jarrett, President Obama’s senior adviser and the woman who an administration source once told The New York Times was “the single, most influential person in the Obama White House,” recently joined some of my columnist colleagues and me for dinner in the nation’s capital. Even though […]

It was 50 years ago this week that I fell madly in love with Denise McNair. That love was unrequited. If you don’t immediately recognize the name Denise McNair, perhaps you will if it’s mentioned with three others. Addie Mae Collins, Carole Robertson and Cynthia Wesley. Those were the “four little girls” killed in the […]

There are too many people who don’t face the consequences of taking young lives in our community. Today Jeff Johnson gives us 3 Things You Should Know focusing on how…

It’s a shame that the National Conference of Black Mayors is going broke – or at the very least falling on hard financial times. Two weeks ago, the board of directors of the National Conference of Black Mayors voted to fire its executive director, Vanessa Williams, who was accused of spending $623,000 for her personal […]

The racial hatred toward Nina Davuluri — the first contestant of Indian heritage to be crowned Miss America – was swift, relentless, and ugly. “How the f–k does a foreigner win miss America? She is a Arab! #idiots,”’ one man tweeted after Davuluri’s historic moment. “If you’re #MissAmerica you should have to be American,” another […]

Today’s Front Page News sparked a heated discussion on racism. Listen to the audio player to hear the latest headlines in news and the reason…

Jeff Johnson says there is a rumor about President Obama and Jesse Jackson Jr.’s wife circling the White House in today’s 3 Things You Should Know. Listen…

As someone as equally ambivalent about the idea of the U.S. military engaged in yet another Middle Eastern conflict as any other war weary American,…

Imagine your deepest, darkest secret being laid bare in the public square. Imagine how you would feel if something that you have been struggling with in shame, in private, was exposed and held up to public judgment and ridicule. Could you stand there with your head held high and admit to something so difficult for […]

Sign our Change.org petition for a female NAACP president. It’s time for a radical change at the top: The next president of the NAACP should be a woman. After 104 years, the nation’s largest – and oldest – civil rights organization should evolve and move into the future for the first time with a woman […]

Jeff Johnson has 3 Things You Should Know, including why we need to pay attention to who the next NAACP president will be. Listen to…