2017-10-06 23:55
For my birthday this year, a good friend took me to see the movie Loving. Written and directed by Jeff Nichols; the focal point of the film is an interracial couple nam… Read More
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2016-09-14 21:33
How much will the Republican Party change after the Trumpocalypse? Zero. Nada. None at all.Leaders at every level have signaled that white nationalism is now acceptable in the Party of Linco… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
NEW YORK, — Each year the homeless population increases in the United States. The reasons for this vary. Natural disasters, disability, substance abuse, and lack of affordable housing… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
New Orleans emcee Truth Universal presents the self-directed music video for “Motivated”, the DJ Waht-produced single “Motivated”, from his new album Invent The Futur… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
As the Michael Bloomberg era comes to an end, what it will be remembered for remains as yet unclear. Bloomberg’s multi-term predecessors in City Hall were outsize figures: Ed Koch (197… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
When Congress passed the Johnson-Era Civil Rights Acts, America began an unprecedented expansion of personal liberty that reached far beyond the black community. For the first time ever, the… Read More
2015-07-09 00:00
After months of Hamlet-like vacillation, John Ellis (Jeb) Bush decides to join the 2016 Presidential race. The leader among all of the declared and undeclared Republican presidential cand… Read More
2015-07-08 23:57
According to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), homelessness is defined as “people who are living in a place not meant for human habitation, in emergen… Read More
2015-04-10 11:39
It is official.Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) is running for the Republican nomination for president in 2016. But why should black America care?Pay close attention to his views on mass incar… Read More
2015-04-10 11:32
Photo: Davis Turner / Getty ImageDuring his second inaugural address this past January, Georgia Governor Nathan Deal shared the story of Sean Walker. After serving 12 years of a li… Read More
2015-04-10 11:29
This is what the GOP might look like when the culture wars finally end.Republicans in Massachusetts have openly backed same sex marriage, joining an amicus brief filed by former RNC Cha… Read More
2015-04-10 11:26
Like most Ivy League professors, Leah Wright Rigueur is not a Republican. Yet like most African-Americans, shefound it curious that anyone would be. “African-A… Read More
2015-03-16 18:21
Their reaction is neither fair, accurate, nor good for America.It’s unfortunate, the way news is consumed and interpreted in the age of twitter. Everyone feels tremendous pressure to f… Read More
2015-03-16 18:19
Having the nation's first African-American president at the Civil Rights Summit speaks to the immeasurable success of Lyndon Baines Johnson’s presidency. The Civil Rights legislation L… Read More
2015-03-16 18:18
Is there a place for conservative urbanism?That was the question prompted by Charles Marohn’s recent New Urbs article, “The Conservative Case Against the Suburbs.”&nbs&hell…Read More
2015-03-16 18:16
In light of the recent police brutality cases occurring across the nation, Democratic Governor of New York Andrew Cuomo met with the mogul and nineteen-time Grammy Award-winning rapper Shawn… Read More
2015-03-16 18:09
This is something I’ve thought about a lot. And it applies to living in a “bad” town or rural area, as well. What if you live in a place that is ugly, broken-down, dan… Read More
2015-03-16 18:08
Eminent black historian Dr. Carter G. Woodson started Negro History Week in 1926, which intended to redress the lack of attention paid to black achievement in society and in academia. This l… Read More
2015-03-16 18:04
Philip Mangano may have created the model for ending homelessness in America.Say what you will about George W’s tenure as POTUS, but apparently his homelessness czar Philip… Read More
2015-03-16 18:02
2015-03-16 17:59
At a recent dinner in Honiara, capital of the Solomon Islands, a friend commented on the unprecedented and increasing level of government dependence in the idyllic South Pacific nation of ha… Read More
2015-03-16 17:44
Mark Earley is not the only conservative who now sees mass incarceration as a social evil rather than a policy solution. But like other mass traumas, the prison explosion has generated thick… Read More
2014-10-05 06:56
The Wilder Shores of Marx visits five countries which still labor under systems inspired by the writings of Marx, Engels, Lenin and other luminaries of the left.The most decis… Read More
2014-10-05 06:48
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and his home borough of Brooklyn are nothing if not shorthand for the policies espoused by the burgeoning populist wing of the Democratic Party. (Generally… Read More
2014-08-23 15:33
Urban public schools are failing tremendously. The causes: a lack of school competition, a greater percentage of kids with learning disabilities, and insufficient parental supervision. It ca… Read More
2014-08-23 15:29
Dennis Kimbro, The Wealth Choice: Success Secrets of Black Millionaires, New York, 2013, Palgrave MacmillanIn 1955, when Martin Luther King Jr. led the Montgomery Bus boycott, there were onl… Read More
2014-08-23 15:19
Experience teaches black men that police officers exist not to protect them, but to criminalize and humiliate them. Few black boys get through adolescence without a story of police harassmen… Read More
2014-08-23 15:14
Michael Brown, an 18-year-old who was a few days away from starting college, was shot and killed by police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri—a region with a prominent A… Read More
2014-08-13 19:16
A recent decision by Papua New Guinea’s (PNG) government to strengthen the nation’s criminal code has re-awakened the debate over the role of deterrence in reducing crime.Much… Read More
2014-08-13 19:06
Eco-lutionary Game Changer Provocateur Ron Finley explains what it means to him to live beyond labels Read More
2014-08-13 18:58
(The Press of Atlantic City / Ben Fogletto)Shaneen Allen faces three and a half years in prison because she made an honest mistake, followed by a mistake of honesty. Allen, a 27-year-old p… Read More
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