Diddy’s Daughters’ Tearful Exit From Trial Ignites Black America’s Outcry
Black Celebs Showed Out at Paris Fashion Week
A White Waitress at a St. Louis Restaurant Calls a Black Woman Customer the B-Word on Video, and It Only Gets Worse From There…
Mama Duke Just Dropped Another Banger and Fans Say It’s As Good As Her ‘America’s Got Talent’ Hit
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Should Parents Go to Jail for Missing Parent-Teacher Meetings?
It caused a ruckus when police in localities across the country started arresting parents for their children’s truancy, but what about getting sent to jail for missing a parent-teacher conference? Detroit prosecutor Kym Worthy presented a proposal to the City Council last week that would require parents to spend three days in jail if they…
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Reggae Artist Gregory Isaacs Dead at 59
By Terence McArdle Gregory Isaacs, 59, the Jamaican-born reggae singer who was known as the “cool ruler” for his smooth, romantic singing style and who popularized the reggae subgenre known as lovers rock, died of lung cancer Oct. 25 at his home in London. Unlike so-called roots rock singers Bob Marley and Burning Spear, who…
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The Agenda
In September a New York Times/CBS News poll found that fewer than one in 10 Americans had heard about the Obama administration’s hallmark tax cuts. Though the cuts had decreased income taxes up to $400 a year for individuals and $800 for married couples, virtually nobody knew about them, least of all members of the…
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NYT Reporter: Tea Party Finds Palin 'Amusing'
Good news for Americans worried about a Sarah Palin presidency come 2012—or worse, a Palin-Beck ticket: New York Times reporter Kate Zernike, author of Boiling Mad:Inside Tea Party America, says that her reporting doesn’t bear out concerns that the controversial ex-governor of Alaska could hold the highest office in the land, even with so-called “Tea…
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Striking a Balance Between Work and Working Out
Y’all, please pray for my stressed out soul. It’s 6:23 a.m., and I am so tired I could have easily slept another four hours. I’m not feeling well, either. A little nausea, a lot of seasonal allergy/asthma symptoms. I woke up Saturday morning with swollen, froggy eyelids, and about two hours later I was calling…
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'Natural Is the New Light Skinned': A Rebuttal
Bene Viera of Clutch Magazine takes on Garfield Hylton’s post on FreshXpress about natural hair and whether it is, in fact, the new “light skinned.” Viera questions Hylton’s ability to tackle the subject because he is a man. Since many hairstylists are men, and many men wear natural hairstyles, why not? She takes him to…
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Arizona Rep. Grijalva Threatened With Swastikas and Toxic Powder
Tucson news station KVOA reported that Arizona Rep. Raul Grijalva received a slip of papers with swastikas drawn on them and suspicious white powder at his Tucson office. Grijalva later told KVOA that the powder was toxic. The state lawmaker’s office was shut down after the envelope was discovered. News of the mysterious package comes…
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What Health Care Reform Means for African Americans
This is Part 1 of The Agenda: What Obama Has Done for You, a series of articles looking at President Barack Obama’s record on issues that affect blacks. On March 23 of this year, after months of heated conservative backlash at town halls and Tea Party rallies nationwide, President Obama signed into law HR 3590,…
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Eastern Europe Elects First Black Mayor
Slovenia has elected its first black mayor. Dr. Peter Bossman, a Ghana-born physician known as the “Obama of Piran,” has made history. Bossman settled in this tiny Alpine nation in the 1970s to study medicine in what was then known as Yugoslavia. Bossman, 54, is a member of Slovenia’s governing Social Democrats. He won a…
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The White Noise of 2010
Lawrence Ross is the author of the Los Angeles Times best-seller The Divine Nine: The History of African American Fraternities and Sororities. His newest book, Blackballed: The Black and White Politics of Race on America’s Campuses, is a blunt and frank look at the historical and contemporary issue of campus racism on predominantly white college…