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First Lady Michelle Obama covers the latest issue of Vogue. In a great interview with both her and her husband, President Obama gives Michelle props for improving his sense of style: “Michelle’s like Beyoncé in that song. ‘Let me upgrade ya!’ She upgraded me.”

On average, women make only 77 cents for every dollar paid to men. The disparity is much worse for women of color. Black women make only 70 cents for every dollar paid to men, and just 64 cents for every dollar paid to white men.

About a week ago, I had initially been excited when Chicago’s downtown was aglow with a flush of red T-shirts as the district’s teachers went on strike again for the first time in 25 years. Finally, it had seemed that public education’s core issues had been launched onto the national stage. Questions pertaining to teacher […]

 “Those who can do, those who can’t, teach.” –Unknown  I hate this quote. How is it that teachers are responsible for the training and crafting of all of the world’s professions, yet it is deemed socially inadequate for a talented individual to become a teacher? It is odd that we live in a country that […]

The Democratic National Convention has confirmed its intention to include marriage equality as part of its platform.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUdCsM_KHxE Someone, unfortunately, keeps giving George Zimmerman the platform to launch his inconsistent and insensitive remarks concerning his killing of Trayvon Martin. Zimmerman’s interview yesterday with Sean Hannity was undoubtedly an ill-fated attempt to humanize a man who has become a contemporary symbol of America’s racial anxieties. Yet, unsurprisingly, Zimmerman effectively poured salt on America’s […]

GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney spoke before the NAACP, and got booed. Responding later to the NAACP audience’s reaction, Romney said, “Remind them of this: if they want more stuff from government, tell them to go vote for the other guy…”

Today a historic Supreme Court ruling banned mandatory life sentences for children convicted of homicide. The ruling affirms that young offenders should be given “a meaningful opportunity to show they have rehabilitated themselves and are appropriate candidates for release.”

In this “post-racial” world we live in, society wants us to think we’re too sensitive, or imagining things when we speak out against the consistent mistreatment (to put it lightly) of our communities at the hands of law enforcement. Well, did we imagine this one? How ’bout we imagine all of the young men and women sitting in jail right now over this same racist, abusive bullshit. They aren’t just roughing us up out here; they are potentially ruining our young people’s lives!

In the blogsphere there has been some uproar about comparing the civil rights movement of the 1950’s and 60’s to the Gay Rights Movement (which is moving forward with their victory in New York last week.) Apparently, many people find it “appalling” that this comparison is being made. Here are my thoughts: Just to say […]

Before we move entirely away from the Dominique Strauss-Kahn story and on to the next sensational news event, let us take a few things with us. First, let me say the alleged crime committed by Dominique Strauss-Kahn in a New York hotel has pitted American culture against French culture in more than a few ways. […]

Skills fund to prioritise Black and Coloured youths Chantall Presence, Eye Witness News, March 13, 2011 4th Annual African American Men Read – In ‘Brothers Mentoring Youth Through Reading’ J. Williams, The Westside Gazette, March 13, 2011 Teacher encourages students to discover themselves Kevin Tremain, The State-Journal Register, March 12, 2011 Why black Africans are […]