I’m angered that Kevyn Orr, Detroit’s emergency manager, would approve the city’s plans to spend $400 million to build a new hockey arena when the city is broke and thousands of city workers are worried about receiving their hard-earned pensions. It’s a tragedy that Orr – and Detroit’s city administrators – are gambling with the […]
While President Barack Obama prepares to visit South Africa this week, I was reminded of meeting Nelson Mandela in Johannesburg on November 14, 1991. We met one year after he was released after serving 27 years in prison for attempting to overthrow a cruel government that practiced widespread apartheid, physical abuse and racial discrimination against […]
Sybrina and Tracy Martin – the parents of slain teenager Trayvon Martin –will finally get their day in court. George Zimmerman, who is accused of killing 17-year-old Trayvon inside a gated community in Sanford, Florida last year, will go on trial Monday. A jury of six women — five whites and one Hispanic — will […]
President Barack Obama traveled to Atlanta Sunday and delivered a rare yet impassioned speech at Morehouse College about race and the evolution of black men in America. It was arguably one of the most significant speeches of Obama’s presidency. “For black men in the 1940s and 1950s, the threat of violence, the constant humiliations, large […]
I’m completely disgusted with the mother-daughter hard-core porn performers of Tampa. Known professionally as the “The Sexxxtons,” Jessica, the mother, and Monica, the daughter, have created a kinky tag-team website and just released a DVD to promote their family-owned porn business based in Tampa, Florida. Both mother, a blonde, and daughter, a brunette, often engage […]
BIMINI, THE BAHAMAS — In the mystical silence of the Bimini mangroves, a swampy cluster of thick trees, bushes and home to 100 species of fish and marine life, Martin Luther King III stood in the sacred place where his father, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., relaxed in a small wooden boat, rocked in the […]
Artur Davis — ex-legislator, lawyer, and son of the South — has added another label to his lengthy resume: Turncoat. Davis, the former congressman from Alabama and one of the first black elected officials to publicly support President Barack Obama, stunned colleagues by announcing that he is bolting from the Democratic Party to become a […]
If you believe Maryland Del. Pat McDonough, don’t visit Baltimore’s Inner Harbor because gangs of black teenagers are terrorizing tourists. "Roving mobs of black youth are responsible for the attacks," said McDonough, a Republican state legislator. "This has been going on for years. I have a responsibility as an elected official to bring this to […]
Mitt Romney refuses to talk about his Mormon faith on the campaign trail and it’s probably a sound political strategy since his religion teaches that black people are cursed by God. Even though the overwhelming majority of African-American voters will support President Barack Obama in the general election over Romney, black Republicans have been particularly […]
