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*Roland Martin recently wrote about the Associated Press and its proclamation that there are several prominent black pastors telling their congregations not to vote. According to Martin, the story was an overblown and misguided assertion that ultimately misled the public into believing that the men and women running black churches across America are hungry to [...]
*I remember a few years ago, on the cover of ESPN The Magazine, a picture of NFL player Vincent Young. The image was taken shortly after Young won the NCAA championship for the Texas Longhorns, the institution that has made billions on the backs of unpaid black athletes. On the cover of the magazine were [...]
*As I prepare to address students at Grambling University about the importance of giving back and having the courage to fight for social justice, my mind is drawn to the words of our predecessors who paved the way for all of us to have the freedoms that we enjoy to this day. At the top [...]
Recently, Dr. Cornel West and his academic homeboy, Eddie Glaude, spoke up about black suffering that has occurred during the presidency of Barack Obama. Glaude and West feel that the Obama Administration has leveraged its strong support from the black community as an opportunity to engage in serious political neglect. “As folks rally to support [...]
*This week, a rapper in Chicago by the name of Jojo made a “diss record” about the rapper Chief Keef. A few days later, the 16-year old rapper was dead. Some think that Jojo’s death certificate was signed when he spoke negatively against Keef, and some of his friends were even dumb enough to brag [...]
*Last night, I was watching my copy of the very important film, “Hoodwinked,” by Janks Morton. I appear in the film, along with my respected colleagues, Drs. Marc Lamont Hill, Jawanza Kunjufu, Ivory Toldson and Steve Perry. The film serves to debunk many of the ridiculous myths that black people perpetuate against one another, particularly [...]
*The state of North Carolina added insult to injury when it recently decided not to compensate women who were victims of unwanted sterilizations. From 1929 – 1974, the state chose to play God and sterilize thousands of women against their will. The women were mostly black and brown, and were selected due to having what [...]
*We all know that Chad Ochocinco is about to be married to Evelyn Lozada, the woman who is probably more aggressive than the NFL player with whom she shares her bed. It is also well-known that Chad was just cut from the New England Patriots, where he once earned a nice paycheck. Given Evelyn’s history [...]
*I’ve spent a week thinking about the Newsweek cover in which President Obama is proclaimed to be “The First Gay President.” As a proponent of gay marriage, I was admittedly taken aback by seeing a successful black man “turned out” in front of the American public. In fact, I was actually insulted, not because there’s [...]
*I was saddened to read about the fake suicide attempt by Terricka Cason Cromartie, wife of NFL star Antonio Cromartie. Mr. Cromartie is known as much for the many places his sex organs have traveled as he is for his prowess on the football field. By having 8 kids with 7 woman, plus another four [...]
*On the front page of CNN today, there was an interesting article about the divide between the Obama Administration and the African American church. The author of the piece seems to be implying that black church opposition to gay marriage is hypocritical, in large part because the bible being quoted by Christians is the same [...]
*Cleveland, Ohio high school student Gabrielle Jones refuses to be a victim. She has become a victor instead by writing an award winning essay on bullying and her experience in dealing with it. The empowered young superstar wrote the essay as part of the Maltz Museum “Stop the Hate” essay contest and she is $50,000 [...]
*The removal of white Essence Magazine Editor Michael Bullerdick is the kind of stuff that racial controversies are made of. After seeing an uproar from the black community in response to the hiring of Bullerdick, Essence employees were treated to the sheer delight of finding out that their favored son was also a right wing [...]
*I’m not sure about you, but there’s something that irks me about Whoopi Goldberg and Don Lemon. Don is the anchor at CNN who seems compelled to make sure that the entire world knows he’s gay, and Whoopi is the host who once comfortably overlooked child rape allegations against filmmaker Roman Polanski, primarily because he’s [...]
*George Zimmerman, the man who instantly turned himself into public enemy number one, is an intriguing character for a multitude of reasons. (Are you a fan of EURweb? Like us on Facebook or Follow us on Twitter.) When I read Zimmerman’s story, he reminds me of one of my more “interesting” friends who had a [...]
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