This week, Governor Bob McDonnell declared that his state would honor April as “Confederate History and Heritage Month.” Typical of a white southern Republican, he completely ignored slavery in...
While the attention of the world has been drawn by recent shocking revelations in the ongoing abuse scandal in the Catholic Church, the Northern California town of Fort Bragg has been riveted by an...
When Sandra Bullock won an Oscar for her role as a White saviour in the movie “The Blind Side,” she spoke movingly about her husband Jesse James and what their relationship means to her. It had...
The most disturbing thing about reading Rick Perlstein's Nixonland is how little has changed. Even the names of the players themselves--some are still around, like Charlie Rangel, Donald Rumsfeld,...
Ted Kennedy wasn't there to see it. Instead, it was Democrats' loss of his seat that sent the Senate's health care bill through the House of Representatives mostly unchanged yesterday, causing, among...
Saturday, March 20th, Tavis Smiley convened a panel to discuss the Black Agenda in the age of Obama. The panellists included such people as Dr Michael Eric Dyson, Angela Glover, Reverend Jessie L....
From Twitter to “The View,” the story of Donna Simpson's attempt to become the fattest woman in the world has made its rounds. The Daily Mail reports that Simpson is 42 years old and is a...
Americans constantly worry about public education. There is a mantra that we keep repeating: “Our Schools Are Failing!” But have our schools, in fact, failed? And if so, who or what is really to...
As food consciousness hits Americans—and wealthy Global Northerners everywhere—it's not just cooking that has seen a resurgence. Farming is experiencing a new cachet that it hasn't seen in ages....
Come back home to the refinery/Hiring man says, "Son if it was up to me"/I go down to see the V.A. man/He said "Son don't you understand" FOX News host Glenn Beck has set himself up as a sort of...
