While I’m excited about the fact that a network created particularly for Black America is taking a stance and focusing on analyzing and potentially solving Black issues, I’m bothered because I feel the network is afraid to bring this program in with full-force.
In light of the recent protest at Walmart last black Friday. I think it is appropriate to revisit the Walmart debate. If there is ever a battle between big business and everyday citizens struggling for their labor rights, I will always be on the side of those who are struggling for a better life. As […]
In a recent interview, NY emcee Saigon said he’d like to punch rappers like 2 Chainz and Rick Ross for hurting young people with the messages in their music. What are your thoughts on the state of Hip Hop music? How can we bring some much-needed balance to the genre?
Embattled US Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. is rumored to be eyeing a plea deal with the Feds that includes resignation from Congress and jail time. All of this has come to light AFTER he was re-elected last week. Should Jackson have informed the public of this prior to the election?
At a campaign rally in Ohio yesterday, Jay-Z brought the house down with a slight revision to one of his classics: ‘If you havin’ world problems, I feel bad for you, son/ I got 99 problems but Mitt ain’t one.” Too far? Or juuuuuust right?
This is it, folks. Election day is finally (read: mercifully) upon us. Please get out to the polls today and make your voice heard.
A slew of polls released on Sunday suggest an Obama victory tomorrow night. The numbers have the incumbent up in key battleground states, as well as nationally. What do you think? Does Obama have this one in the bag? WIll you be voting tomorrow?
Accompanied by New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, President Obama toured the destruction and devastation left in the wake of Hurricane Sandy yesterday.
When it comes time to communicate especially when you hurt someone, the other person in pain cant immediately understand you. An appearance of you remains clear to them; you appear to them as the harm. As the threat you are nowhere above doubt. How can you say something is real, when you’re suspect from the […]
Hot on the heels of a decisive victory over GOP rival Mitt Romney in last night’s foreign policy debate, the Obama campaign has released a new ad entitled “Determination,” The 1 minute spot acts as a closing argument for the President, outlining his future plans for the nation.
An anti-Obama ad, currently running on BET in Cleveland, OH, and Seattle, WA presumably expresses some black people’s qualms with the POTUS. Will this ad prove effective in the battleground state of Ohio? What do you think of the claims in the ad?
A new political ad, brought to you by The Tea Party Victory Fund and currently running in white Ohio counties, definitely ranks up there amongst the most racist ads we’ve ever seen. What’s even more maddening, the creator of the ad is former Ohio secretary of state Ken Blackwell; a black man.
