Arguing that people of color will remain a part of the American fabric long after President Barack Obama leaves office, Jonathan P. Hicks says at BET that it would be wise for Republican lawmakers to set aside their ideological differences with his administration and adopt long-term solutions to address the staggering black unemployment rate. It…

The conspicuous failure of Republicans to pay homage to Martin Luther King Jr. this week reveals precisely where African Americans rank in the party’s pecking order and highlights the nation’s widening racial chasm, Jonathan P. Hicks writes at BET. There was one group curiously absent from the memorializing: Republicans.  Not one GOP figure attended the event…

The horrible slaying of a white Australian baseball player in Oklahoma by three teens, two of whom apparently are black, is more representative of escalating gun violence in America than a deadly case of racism, Jonathan P. Hicks writes at BET, because the self-described “bored” teens were not focused on the victim’s race. The 22-year-old…