Baton Rouge police officer Montrell Jackson is dead from Gavin Long’s bullet. Jackson is Black. And Long is Black. Long is a cold-blooded murderer who ambushed Jackson and several other police officers Sunday in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Long killed two other cops and wounded a few others. It was a senseless, cowardly act. Long, 29, […]
If you’re African-American and planning a vacation, you may want to check out a hotel before booking Airbnb. Hosts on Airbnb haven’t exactly welcomed Black folks into their homes. Racial discrimination, according to a Harvard study, is rampant during online bookings, especially if hosts with Airbnb conclude that the folks who are booking are Black. […]
Jim Crow is back. The notion of a post-racial society after President Barack Obama was elected as the nation’s first black president has just been blown up: America’s public schools are re-segregating at an alarming rate. Decades of racial progress in public schools is now being erased, according to a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report […]
Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder should be ashamed of himself. Snyder is staging a shameless damage control ploy to show that he is taking charge of…
The awkward, racially-charged joke by Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio about Black folks wasn’t funny. At least I…
So it’s come to this: Black students can’t attend a Donald Trump rally without being accused of protesting and thrown out of the event —…
Growing up in Detroit, I would occasionally drive one-hour to Flint, Michigan to hang out with friends near the banks of the Flint River (pictured).…
Republican Gov. Paul LePage from Maine should resign. Quick. Fast. And in a hurry. LePage offered a feeble apology last week for his ill-advised comments…
This week, I walked out of the barber shop this week and asked a friend, an African-American professional, to name his top concern of 2015.…
Is Donald Trump’s defiant anti-politically correct message dangerous for Black folks? I could make a valid argument that Trump’s verbal assault on political correctness leads…
The new face of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign is a black woman. Trump, the frontrunner among Republican candidates in most national polls, has hired Tea…
I’m weary of writing about young Black boys being gunned down by young Black men. There’s a $20,000 reward for information leading to the killer…
