Texas Mother’s Reasoning for Allegedly Boiling Her Baby Will Make You Cry
After Dissing Black Americans For Years, African Immigrants Want Us To Care As Trump Tries to Deport Them. A Professor Explains What We should Do
This Alabama City’s First-Ever Black Councilwoman Receives Letter Calling Her N-Word, and That’s Not All
New Development for White Michigan Karen Who Lied and Said Two Black Men Assaulted Her
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Obama Keeps Pressure On for Financial Overhaul
President Obama has kept financial overhaul on the front burner and is now taking the fight to Wall Street President Barack Obama is taking his argument for stronger oversight of the financial industry to the place where the economic meltdown began. Without change on Wall Street, he says, America is doomed to repeat the past.…
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Black Farmers Call on Congress to Settle Racial Bias Suit
Black farmers want the money they’re owed from a racial bias suit and is calling on Congress to pony up the dough A March 31 deadline to appropriate the funds has passed, and farmers now may withdraw from the settlement and pursue independent litigation against the government. Congress now has a target date of the…
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Guru, R.I.P.
Every great rapper has a style. Guru, who passed away this week at the age of 47 from causes relating to cancer, had a sound, too. His flow and delivery spoke volumes about his street smarts, savvy and attitude on life. Although he was central to two key projects, the vocal half of Gang Starr…
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How Moving From New York to Seattle Made Me Eco-Friendly
I was riding the Staten Island Ferry in New York City a few summers ago, sipping a cold drink and easing into the rhythm of being back east. Toward the end of the ride, I asked a worker at the snack bar where I could recycle my aluminum can. After an awkward pause, he laughed…
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An Earth Day Fix for Urban Food Deserts
Rewind: In April 2010, we examined the “guerrilla tactics” of black organic farmers looking to combat food deserts in urban areas. “Usilima hua huli.” (If you don’t farm, you are not eating.)—Bena (Tanzania) Proverb Veronica Kyle of Chicago is not happy, but she is hopeful. Her upset stems from knowing that too many blacks and…
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Finding God in My Garden
My Austin, Texas, garden beds, with their young jalapeno and tomato plants, remind me of God. Satanic bugs like fire ants and worms lurk below the surface, and sometimes they furrow into my yucky compost pile of dirt and table scraps, but God is still there. I see the divine in the resilient rosemary bushes,…
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Today’s Headlines: Everything You Eat Will KILL You
Wednesday is the unofficial day for health news in the U.S., and if you believe everything told to us this morning, we’re all as good as dead. First, the sugar report: Eating processed foods with added sugar is putting everyone at increased risk for heart attacks, strokes and diabetes. If this isn’t surprising to you,…
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Going Meatless
When I decided to eat less flesh from animals, birds and fish, I can’t say it was something I came to overnight. No carne asada one day and only tofu the next. After all, I’d been raised in the meat-eating ’50s and ’60s, when a good steak was practically considered the birthright of the American…
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Poet Carolyn Rodgers Dies at 69
Carolyn Rodgers, a leading force in the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 70s has passed away. Carolyn Rodgers, a leading poet of the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s whose work wove strands of feminism, black power, spirituality and writerly self-consciousness into a sometimes raging, sometimes ruminative search for identity, died…
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Yet Another TV Show About Black Women and Black Men
It was fitting that ABC chose to tape its Nightline “Face-Off” segment, ”Why Can’t a Successful Black Woman Find a Man?” in Atlanta, a city where many black women have become the hunters and black men are the gatherers. This kind of reality brought droves of black women and men out for the taping of the…