"Put them back in the f—king fields where they belong!"
The number of applications for employment at the Dallas Police Department has almost quadrupled since Police Chief…
On Monday, Michael Jordan decided to break his Clarence Thomas-like silence on race relations in this country to…
I am not unique when I say I have had a long and special relationship with first lady Michelle Obama. It started way…
As the Democratic National Convention gets underway, it’s always good to remember what Will Rogers once said: "I am…
As citizens, we deserve election seasons that are seesawing, back-and-forth spectacles of clashing ideas. Instead we…
Given the racial tension in the nation (and the world) and the ongoing Black Lives Matter vs. All Lives Matter…
What a time to be black in America.
Black men are under attack. There may have been a time when that statement might have sounded like an exaggeration,…
Last week, young black organizers across the country took to the streets to demand that the U.S. government, unions…
The Wikileaks drop on Friday has brought up the dreaded words “email,” “rigged” and “Debbie Wasserman Schultz” again…
The speech that then-Sen. Barack Obama gave during the 2004 Democratic National Convention solidified him in the…
The WNBA has reversed its decision to fine the teams and players who wore black protest warm-up shirts saying “Alton…
Eccentric former NBA player Dennis Rodman is apparently a person of interest in a car crash in California, reports…
For the first time in several years, there are black-centered sitcoms that don’t make me want to cry out to Negro…
A Massachusetts mayor has refused to remove a Black Lives Matter banner from City Hall at the request of the local…
The man who videotaped the chilling death of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge La., has effectively been given the ax.…
In what some will surely call “executive advocacy” (or abuse), the governor of Virginia will sign a staggering…
Warning: Sports analogies ahead …
In 2011 Jesmyn Ward won the National Book Award for her novel Salvage the Bones, an exploration of one black…