Commentary

It was only a matter of time before the enshrined celebrity tabloid obsession would ensnare the Obama family. They have been ripe for the pickings of a media that for the past two decades has successfully parlayed gossip, innuendo, rumor, half-truths and outright lies…

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When I first became active in the Civil Rights Movement as a teenager in Youngstown, Ohio, January 1st was always a very important day in the Black community — not because it was the first day of a new year, but it was Emancipation Day.

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The New York Times entitled “Black and Female: The Marriage Question” written by researcher Angela Stanley, used Census data and other actual numbers to show that the commonly repeated statistic that 70 percent of Black women never marry isn’t altogether true.

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Black voters will again give President Obama a sky high percentage of their vote in 2012. That was never in doubt. What is in doubt is how many will make up that percentage. It is the number, not percentage of black voters that turn out that will again ease the President’s path back to the White House…

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It was truly a pleasure listening to your economic speech this past Wednesday in Osawatomie, Kansas. You were clear, strong, and on point. The values of hard work do pay off; responsibility should be rewarded; and American workers have and still can produce the best products on Earth.

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Thousands of people good naturedly weathered the cold in New York City on Saturday, December 10th in a march for Voting Rights, sponsored by the NAACP, labor unions, educators, and community organizations, ending in a rally at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, across from the United Nations.

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With GOP presidential contender Herman Cain’s presidential candidacy effectively dead, now’s a good time to turn a hard glare on the suddenly surging GOP presidential contender Newt Gingrich’s racial skeletons. His closet is stuffed with them.

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Sooner or later presumptive GOP presidential nominee frontrunner Mitt Romney will have to publicly answer which Romney will show up on the issue of race and diversity if he indeed gets the GOP nomination and snatches the White House in 2012. Will it be the Romney that…

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Sure, you’re tempted to snicker at Herman Cain, the Black businessman who headed a successful pizza chain—but don’t. Yeah, you want to write him off as a 21st century incarnation of Stepin Fetchit, a shuffling, Tom-ing, symbol of the GOP’s sham diversity, but don’t….

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If Penn State officials kept their yaps shut for years in the face of open knowledge of and strong suspicions of the alledged child rapes and if the victims were young black males, then the last dot connected is the charge that black lives are routinely devalued when it comes to officials taking action to protect them.

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