On the economic issues that matter most, the Democratic Party hasn't let black voters down, and, opinion polls to the contrary, they still vote on that basis.
For Crouch, the fact that Obama's father — whom Obama met only once — was a black Kenyan who came to the U.S. to study at Harvard and the University of Hawaii removes him from the traditional black American narrative.
"Third Person, First Person: Slave Voices from the Special Collections Library" probes the life experiences of American slaves from the late eighteenth century through the nineteenth century, and examines the enterprise of recovering and preserving Africa
My mission in life is to watch every movie, make sweet love to Rosario Dawson, have a bank account to make Oprah envious, and to bitchslap George Bush and Dick Cheney with the force of a Tyson Blow.
Black America continues to move toward demonization of homosexuality and bisexuality while white America is being forced to confront it from an entirely different perspective.
Last week's column pondering why local black women are attracted to ex-cons and black men currently serving time behind bars wasn't meant to ignite a war between the sexes...
The Kaiser Family Foundation and The Washington Post on July 18 hosted a forum in the Foundation's Barbara Jordan Conference Center featuring Bill Cosby and a panel of national leaders examining the experiences of young black men in America.
Kellina Craig-Henderson, professor of psychology at Howard University, discussed her new book, Black Men in Interracial Relationships," which examines the role race plays in relationships between black men and women of other races.
Bill Cosby is on tour, again. Like, with a vengence. He’s on some kind of Grumpy Old Man Tour, the same one your grandfather has been mounting from his armchair since the late seventies.
Researchers have found that ignoring race in elite college admissions would result in sharp declines in the numbers of African Americans and Hispanics accepted with little gain for white students.
Looking for Mr. White: interracial relationship survey: has our attitude about dating outside the race changed? We looked at interracial relationships in a recent essence.com poll to see how far love has come. The answer may surprise you
”I’m all for freedom of speech, but there’s such an imbalance out here. I’d hate to be eight years old listening to the radio, the only thing I’d be thinking about is fuckin and cutting a pound of blow up."
What CBC members said stood out the most was the president's declaration that he was "unfamiliar" with the Voting Rights Act of 1965, one of the most significant pieces of legislation passed in the history of the United States.