So here we are America; it’s year number two of post-racial bliss. And here I am coming at you with a post-racial update that exhibits just how far we’ve come. I actually heard about the following story a few weeks ago and meant to bring it to you my dear readers. You know how I [...]

International adoption, which was such a huge trend only a few years ago thanks to the likes of Madonna and Brad and Angelina has now lost much of it’s media flair. After mounting reports of child abuse and accusations of children being placed quickly and carelessly through lax regulations the international child advocate community has asked that [...]

For the past few years I’ve watched and read with disgust as my man Villager over at Electronic Village highlights story after story of taser deaths in America. As you could imagine, these are deaths at the hands of police officers; anbd yes, oftentimes the victims are people of color – more specifically, they’re mostly [...]

Woke up this morning and got my first major laugh of the day. China has spoken. You know that country that we are around 1.3 trillion dollars in debt to? They responded to the S&P downgrade late yesterday and I am still trying to figure out if this is ultimate schadenfreude or irony times ten. [...]

So now that a U.S default on its debt has been averted, leaving working poor folk holding the shitty end of the stick as usual, everybody and their momma wants to talk about job creation. isn’t that funny? I mean, isn’t it funny that now job creation is the focus? Hell, I’ve been speaking into [...]

Back in 1090, a few weeks after moving to southern Indiana, I was floored when I learned that there was a celebration called Nigger Day. Being new to the area, I was told that i should travel to a small town in Kentucky where Black folks celebrated the emancipation from slavery, commonly known and widely [...]

The law is meant to be my servant and not my master, still less my torturer and my murderer.– James Baldwin, The Nation, 7/11/66  More than 40 years later, I can still remember the incident as if it happened yesterday. It was my first real interaction with a NYC police officer. A few of us [...]

I have really made a concerted effort not to get too engrossed in the so-called “debt-ceiling” debacle which is unfolding right now in the halls of the Capitol. Listening to the “pundits” and so-called journalists hype up something that will have dire consequences for so many Americans is, I find extremely distasteful and only adds [...]

When growing up, two cats in a yard was the American Dream. Detroiter, Julie Bass upped that vision by planting organic vegetables in her front landscape as opposed to itchy grass and birds of paradise. A mother and avid urban green thumb, Bass decided to take on the project because purchasing organic food in a [...]

Before we meet this weeks award recipient, allow me to highlight a court ruling in Michigan yesterday that I’m sure in months to come will be heavily debated. The following story involves Affirmative Action and college admissions; which is tied to this weeks slave catcher award honoree: Michigan’s ban on considering race and gender in [...]