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When Sybrina Fulton, proclaimed, “our son is your son,” to the crowd of protestors in Manhattan’s Union Square, she was speaking to the parents in the audience, she was speaking to humanity. Fulton and her ex-husband Travis Martin traveled to New York City from Sanford, Florida where their son, Trayvon Martin, 17, was shot dead […]

To: President Barack Obama cc: Attorney General Eric Holder cc: GOP Presidential Candidates Dear Mr. President: I hope this letter finds you well. With the Republican race looking more and more like the Real Housewives of something and March Madness in full swing (sorry about your bracket), I imagine that your spirits are rather high. I hope […]

The New York Times ran a fascinating article on NYC’s flagship specialized public school Stuyvesant High School, and its dwindling number Black and Latino students. 3,295 students go to Stuyvesant; yet only 40 of them are Black. Should more be done to attract Black and Latino students to schools like Stuyvesant?

On the eve of the 2010 midterm elections, I got together with Paradise the Architech and Cynik Lethal to do an ode to a group of Republican Women candidates I thought were well…crazy. Call it the Sarah Palin effect. At the time, Palin was still relevant and considered the Queen of the Tea Party. Cynik […]

I often find myself standing up for the “Welfare Queen”, a woman characterized by 8 children, lack of a job, and the manipulation to receive welfare payments. Republican model, Ronald Reagan, introduced the term Welfare Queen on a national level in 1976. In his presidential campaign, he described an unnamed woman from the South Side […]

You should be voting for Ron Paul. Yes, that Ron Paul. At least that’s what this article would have you believe. According to the author, Ron Paul has it right. He is a threat to the establishment with his revolutionary ideas about the war on drugs, so we’d do well not to be distracted by […]

This weekend marks a pivotal point in the GOP’s primary process. Historically over the last several elections, the front runner coming out of the New Hampshire primary has gone on to become the party’s nomination. Much speculation has been directed over the past weeek or so, to media proclaimed front runner Mitt Romney, up and […]

Forget Jersey Shore and Snookie’s emotional rants. Forget Real Housewives of Atlanta and all of its ratcheness classiness. If I really want to get a good laugh these days I tune into a Republican Presidential Candidate debate. I try to take politics seriously but when you have so many clowns in the arena it’s hard […]

Last week, The (Legendary) Roots crew, ?uestlove in particular, got into a bit of trouble for choosing to play Fishbone’s song, “Lyin’ Ass Bitch” as the walk-on music for Republican presidential candidate, Michele Bachmann during her appearance on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqeVjopXLWI Brother ?uestion was wrong.

Campaign season is in full swing and politicians are courting voters harder than R. Kelly at a middle school dance. Sorry, maybe that wasn’t  the best comparison. Both Republicans and Democrats are doggedly vying to woo an important voting bloc- Latinos. The Census Bureau—in its first nationwide demographic tally from the 2010 headcount—said Thursday the […]

After 9 years, we are finally nearing the end of the War in Iraq. President Obama made the announcement in a press conference today, effectively fulfilling the biggest of his campaign promises back in 2007. According to the Huffington Post: “‘As a candidate for president, I pledged to bring the war in Iraq to a […]

September 8, 2011 So that crazy, ragtag squad of Republican Presidential Candidates actually debated last night. And we live-tweeted the whole thing. And it was hilarious. And the media seems to have chosen Rick Perry as the night’s clear victor, which is even more hilarious. Perry’s unique brand of crazy was in full force last […]