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Every time people of African descent allow themselves to get into a discussion – which amounts to an argument – about so-called “race,” especially with …

Do we really want an America where out of some 350 million people, a small robber baron elite can control the nation’s entire financial apparatus, …

Ok, so now everybody’s back from the inauguration, mentally and physically. The euphoria lingers like a hint of exquisite perfume, but, alas, soon – very …

Isn’t it time for black people to quit dreaming? Is that right or wrong?     Langston Hughes ran down “A Dream Deferred” and Martin Luther …

Unfortunately, so many people of African descent have been conditioned to a deep and abiding belief that a Moses is coming to deliver them from …

I can see it now, some black folks looking for President-elect Barack Obama to make Pookey pull his pants up and his big sister to …

The best recent example of a poverty pimp is the head of a church-run, non-profit housing program that purportedly helps qualified near-poor, first-time home buyers. …

Come February 2009, the NAACP will celebrate its 100th birthday. For many years, the organization’s mammoth national headquarters has been ensconced in a Baltimore corporate …

We know that this mainly belt-less, sagging pants phenomenon, popularized by black teenage boys, comes from the penal culture. Its antecedent is the popular “do-rag” …

People power is organized from the bottom up. That is the long and often arduous road that has to be traveled in order to achieve …