Commentary

If you’re tuning in regularly to watch your favorite black voices on CNN, they won’t be on the air much longer. CNN is parting ways with long-established voices of Soledad O’Brien and Roland Martin and the network may also be planning to say goodbye to Donna Brazile, a Democratic strategist and CNN’s only African American […]

No major headline or call to stop the presses.  Excuse my language, but it really does SUCK.  But what sucks even more is to sit idly by and do nothing about cancer. A generation has passed since cancer sucked the life out of my world. January 7, 1993. To borrow from The Temptations: “that day […]

Imagine this: You’re on an airline flight and you watch a white man leave his seat to slap a black 19-month-old baby and then tells the baby’s mother: “Shut that (N-word) baby up.” Sounds like a bad joke? It’s no joke. It actually happened two weeks ago on a Delta Airlines flight. Joe Rickey Hundley […]

Somebody once said you never realize you have a drinking problem until you run out of wine. Take that alcohol away and that seemingly docile, agreeable individual might show you a surly, aggressive side that you didn’t know existed. I think a lot of people who never thought of themselves as racist felt that way […]

Jesse Jackson Jr. betrayed his devoted black constituents, stuffed his pockets with campaign cash, and now, as a result of his greed and arrogance, his fate rests in the hands of a federal judge. The former congressman from Illinois, the son of icon Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr., could spend several years in prison for repeated […]

I’m almost certain that Tonya Battle would have been perfectly fine with not having to look after another newborn on her shift. What she wasn’t fine with, though, was the racism that went along with that relief. Last October Battle, a black nurse working in the neonatal intensive care unit at Hurley Medical Center in […]

President Barack Obama has a bold plan for uplifting black America and the White House wants African Americans to know it. Sitting inside the White House, I listened to Valarie Jarrett, the president’s senior adviser, speak passionately about Obama’s ambitious goal to rehabilitate 20 poor communities across the country where black people have struggled for […]

When my daughter left to take a flight from Reagan National Airport to go back to her Berkeley home, I gave her a big hug. Now I want to get out to Berkeley – like ASAP, like yesterday – to give my baby girl another hug. For being a wonderful daughter. For giving me three […]

Wednesday I hosted the Majic 102.3 and DC Lottery Soul Train Event at Union Station. It was a great time, dancing and having fun with all the fans that came out. It also brought back  all kinds of memories of past TJMS events, my fantasy of actually winning the lottery, and of course,  Soul Train. […]

President Barack Obama has adopted a new style of governing for his second term in the White House: Get with the program – or get out of the way. It’s a refreshing change from his conciliatory approach to Congress in previous years. And it couldn’t have come at a more opportune time. Obama is using […]

Joe Walsh must be buckling under the weight of all that Tea Party sanctimony he had a hand in heaping on everyone else. The former Illinois GOP congressman, who lost his seat last fall to Democrat and Iraq war veteran Tammy Duckworth, has apparently fallen on hard times. Since he lost his election – and […]

First Lady Michelle Obama walks softly and carries a big stick. She mourned the death of 15-year-old Hadiya Pendleton Saturday and also highlighted gun violence in America without uttering a single word at the funeral. And it was the right thing to do. Obama paid her respects to Pendleton inside a packed church on Chicago’s […]