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Field trip for black students in Mich. draws anger Jeff Karoub, Associated Press, May 5, 2010 DETROIT — A school district is defending its intentions but reviewing its policies after a field trip by African-American elementary students to meet a University of Michigan rocket scientist drew complaints from excluded children and their parents. Ann Arbor […]

The Congressional Black Caucus and the politics of summer jobs Perry Bacon, Washington Post, May 4, 2010 Congress will appropriate more than $1 trillion this year, and all the Congressional Black Caucus wants is $1.3 billion. But after six months of haggling over the funding for a youth jobs program, the group is running out […]

I’ll be honest; I was not concerned with the immorality of Arizona’s SB 1070 before protests began popping up nationally and what was a state issue took a national audience.  Groups of concerned citizens have started to call for boycotts of Major League Baseball’s Arizona Diamondbacks. Protesters have followed the Diamondbacks to Colorado and even Chicago. […]

“Excuse me. Everyone, I have a brief announcement to make. Jesus was black, Ronald Reagan was the devil, and the government is lying about 9-11. Thank you for your time and good night.” Oh how I missed the cynicism of Huey Freeman. The premier of Season 3 of the Boondocks exceeded my expectations. I must […]

Black Students Experience More Online Bias Than Whites Jill Laster, The Chronicle, April 30, 2010 A new study has found that black students experience more online racial discrimination and generally have a more negative view of campus racial diversity than their white counterparts. Brendesha M. Tynes of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Suzanne […]

So much has happened since the late time I blogged, I figure I’d write a little blurb about everything. Just Wrong. Common and Queen Latifah are starring in a new movie.  I want to shoot myself.  It looks terrible.  I officially hate them both. So much that I want to pull a C. Delores Tucker […]

This week I had the opportunity to speak at Spelman College’s 8th Annual Seven Women at the Cross. For those who are not familiar with Seven Women at the Cross Services it is a time when women preachers and speakers recount the last seven days of Christ living on Earth through the stories of the […]

CNBC | March 18, 2010 A new report by the Joint Economic Committee shows the struggle for jobs is particularly acute for African Americans. William Rodgers, a Rutgers professor and former Labor Dept. chief economist, and Harley Shaiken, a professor at UC Berkeley, share their insight.

Baseball is an international game, a truly international game. But the simple fact is that there is a lack of Black players in Major League Baseball. Angels outfielder Torii Hunter spoke to that fact and now the Major League Baseball community is in an uproar. Everyone from bloggers to Chicago White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen […]

I speak as a – a sister of a sister. Dr. Martin Luther King was assassinated on my birthday. And for over 30 years, Coretta Scott King and I have telephoned, or sent cards to each other, or flowers to each other, or met each other somewhere in the world. We called ourselves “chosen sisters” […]

“She dances like a Black girl.” httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4z5HYNqx3n8 What? Is there something distinct about the way in which we move or speak that is noticeably…Black? Before, I would have denied this. There’s no way you can identify movement or speech as distinctly Black. Right? Maybe.

CNN | March 8, 2010 Last night, Mo’Nique joined an exclusive list of Oscar-winning African-American women.  She spoke backstage about what the win meant to her as well as how she felt about her villainous character in “Precious.”