Commentary

I see it and hear it every time a story comes out about a teenage boy being linked sexually with a female teacher: the snickering and even feigned jealousy of grown men who claim they wish they could have been as lucky when they were back in school. Some even wonder why young boys don’t […]

The verdict is in but the story about the two Steubenville high football players convicted of raping a West Virginia teen girl continues to make headlines. More recently two high school football players in Torrington, Conn., were charged with assaulting a 13-year-old girl, and the alleged victim has been menaced on social media as a […]

“Bow Down Bitches/I Been On” is the name of Beyonce’s new single that has everybody talking, blogging, and tweeting. Has the March “Vogue” magazine cover girl hailed as “Queen B” gone too far? A lot of people think so. “Beyonce sabotages her female empowerment efforts with Bow Down,” declares a tweet from The Washington Post. […]

This wasn’t the turn history was supposed to take for Jennifer Carroll. Carroll, as many already know, became Florida’s first African American lieutenant governor in 2010. Had some misfortune befell Gov. Rick Scott, she could have wound up being the first black and first woman governor of the nation’s fourth most populous state. And even […]

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 […]

Blogs don’t write, people write them. That makes about as much sense as that old NRA line “Guns don’t kill, people do.” With all the gun violence happening almost daily in our community and other places as well, it’s time to start making sense.  The NRA and many of those who are supporters have a […]

Cheap Bastard. That, dear Jasmine, is your problem. It sure as heck isn’t your employers. Jasmine is the “stage name” of Danielle Everett, who’s an “exotic dancer” at the Ebony Inn in Prince George’s County, Md. Everett recently filed a lawsuit against the owners of the Ebony Inn and the Showcase Theater, another Prince George’s […]

This might make me sound like I’m a suck up but I’m fine with all the cabinet appointments the president has made so far.  It’s not to say that I wouldn’t be glad to see him name some black members to his cabinet. Nor am I saying the most qualified members are not African Americans. […]

Michele Dowdy is mourning the loss of her only child. She cries often, she’s tired – and she’s angry. She has good reason. Ten months after her son, Malcom, was shot and killed in Chicago, his murderer still has not been brought to justice.  There have been no arrests in the case and Michele worries […]

One of Roland Martin’s recent guests was a mom who was upset with her five-year-old son’s elementary school because she thought the lesson on slavery went too far. Parts of it included a take–home survey with questions about slavery, a coloring book page depicting a slave auction and, the biggest offender, according to his mom, […]

Bobby Brown is a terrible father. It may be too late for Brown to grow up, turn his life around, and be the father that his daughter, Bobbi Kristina, seriously deserves. Perhaps I’m expecting too much of Bobby Brown, former husband of Whitney Houston, drug user and alcoholic. But if Brown has any dignity left […]

An apology? AN APOLOGY?! An apology doesn’t even begin to atone for the slight that 9-year-old actress and Oscar-nominee Quvenzhane Wallis had to endure the night of the Academy Awards Ceremony. But apparently Steve Hannah, the CEO of the so-called satirical publication, The Onion, thinks it does. Here’s what happened. During the ceremony, about 10 […]