Dear Mr. President: Congratulations on That Nobel Peace Prize

October 11, 2009

Now it's time to start get busy reclaiming your audacity of hope. Taking a cue from Martin Luther King Jr. and Ralph Bunche would be a start.

South Africa's Reality Bites

Sci-fi blockbuster District 9 is all about aliens and spaceships. But its fiction is rooted in the facts about South Africa's troubled history of housing and immigration.

Why Sex Makes Lousy Diplomacy

Kenyan women are waging a sex strike. Kenyan thugs have used rape as a political weapon. Time to put the pum pum in its place.

Chris Brown’s Missing Preschool Lesson

Evidently the fallen pop star didn't get the "boys don't hit girls" lesson when he was a child. That shouldn't stop us from teaching him now.  

Who Wasn’t in New Orleans with Tavis

What Malcolm X, Dubois and Robeson would have told the State of the Black Union.

Confessions of a Black Feminist

It's up to my white girlfriends to deal with Ferraro, Steinem et al.

The God Gap

What's missing in my life--and the human rights movement.

1-800-Who’s-Your-Daddy

A law professor wonders: What if Karl Malone sat down with Maury Povich?