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Loretta Lynch Begins a Short Run as AG … Unless
After more than five months of intense and awfully petty partisan wrangling, the good news is Loretta Lynch finally became the next Attorney General of the United States. With it comes a little...
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The Killing Fields: Republican Districts Targeting Black Men?
Representing parts of St. Louis County where Michael Brown grew up, Missouri State Rep. Clem Smith (D-85) always found it odd that white cops were driving hours from far-flung places to patrol black...
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President Obama’s Ferguson Play: All Script, No Teeth
Looking to save face, President Obama just pulled off four politically masterful stunts to keep his Blackness intact while making sure he didn’t scare off White America while at it. But how else could...
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Why Politicians Aren’t Upset About the Oscars & Hollywood’s Diversity Problem
While we don’t know the Nielsen numbers, yet, it’s probably safe to say that a lot of Black folks didn’t watch the 2015 Oscars ceremony last night. All 20 best of acting nominee slots this year ended...
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Why Kanye’s GRAMMY Gripe Makes Sense
Bucking conventional wisdom here, the problem isn’t so much that self-anointed pop hip-hop impresario Kanye West didn’t know what he was talking about when breaking into a GRAMMY-fueled Beck vs....
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The Racial Implications of Chris Christie’s Vaccine Politics
Leave it to political candidates like Chris Christie to politicize a dangerous measles outbreak. The last thing you’d expect to hear from a twice-elected governor of a heavily populated Northeast blue...
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Why President Obama Was Right to Skip Charlie Hebdo Rally
It was the geopolitical diss heard round the world: President Obama ghosted on a 3 million French strong anti-terror rally that locked up Parisian streets this past Sunday. As a result, you can’t...
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Opinion: #BlackLivesMatter – In Nigeria, Too
We’ve been assaulted, for going on a week now, by wall-to-wall coverage of the tragic terrorist shooting spree in Paris, France that left 17 dead in its wake. Of that total, 12 were staff of the...
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Are Republican Politics Killing Black People?
When we look at all the known facts surrounding the high profile killings of six unarmed young black men since 2012, one alarming trend appears: our politics may be just as responsible for their...
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Of Course Ray Rice is Back in the NFL
It’s not so important that disgraced former Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice won his suspension appeals case as it is important that the NFL accepted it. This was all pro-forma, NFL commissioner...
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Ferguson School for Shutting Down Protest Movements
If you’re a promising young Darth Vader-lite recruit eager to shut down poorly resourced resistance movements then Ferguson University is just the school for you. Nestled comfortably along historic,...
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Sorry: Black Voter Turnout Was Low
There are now two competing narratives gradually emerging in fresh questions over the performance of the Black vote on November 4th. Ultimately, neither explanation is very promising about the...
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Midterms: Is ‘Blackface’ a Measure of White Votes?
This will probably be the only “scientific” poll that’s out there on the question, but someone had to do it. YouGov recently asked about social attitudes towards recent Halloween costumes, including...
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Ebola’s Politics – Here and Over There
As Ebola slithers its way across the Atlantic and into the developed world there are a number of thorny political, racial and foreign policy issues that we’ll have to resolve. Not only is the deadly...
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Secret Service: Big Blunders and Budget Cuts
As Congress grilled Secret Service director Julia Pierson on Tuesday in the wake of spectacular fails of security both around and in the White House, the same question keeps coming up in different...
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To Be Young, Black & Republican
Chelsi Henry has lived a life that many would aspire to. As the daughter of a 16-year-old single mother, Henry bucked statistics by completing college and then law school, and quickly moved on to work...
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What Obama’s ISIL Speech Reveals
Clearly, President Obama has come a long way from a Nobel Peace Prize and gracing Time Magazine as its Person of the Year. Those distinctions were a lifetime of Black History in the making. But...
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Post-Ferguson, America is Corrupt After All
Gone are the days of brazen Plunkitt at Tammany Hall graft and corruption, at least in most of these United States as far as we can tell. George W. Plunkitt is the infamous New York state legislator...
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5 Reasons Obama is Soft on Ferguson
No president wants to be known as that president: the one who oversaw a period of social unrest and rioting. Presidents can deal with wars or natural disasters. They can even deal with contagions or...
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The Police Brutality Antidote: Stop Hiring Barely Educated Cops
Some years ago during a phone riff on the root causes and consequences of police brutality with a corrections officer turned activist, the conversation took an unusual turn when the advocate spit...
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