We have a tendency to refer to members of the African Diaspora as a community, despite the fact that it is filled with people that have wildly different perspectives and experiences. Race supposedly...
When most Americans think of terrorism, certain images come to mind: airplanes flying into the World Trade Center. Muslim men with long beards in Afghanistan. Dark-skinned people trying to set off...
I am deeply concerned for the future of American democracy. The Senate’s failure to function threatens the nation’s long democratic history. The government’s system of checks and balances...
Last week, the New Orleans Saints, long NFL football's worst team, won the Super Bowl. A city cheered, and people from around the country whose teams were knocked out earlier in the season joined...
When it was announced in 2007 by George W. Bush and Felipe Calderón, the Mérida Initiative was to change the way the US and Mexico approached the war on drugs. With the transfer of almost $1.5...
With the Vancouver Games starting today and it also being Black History month, I have pondered why we haven't had as many excellent African-American winter Olympians as we consistently produce for...
CBS has traditionally maintained a ban on advocacy ads, but when the network announced their intent to relax this restriction, Focus on the Family took the opportunity to create an anti-abortion ad....
I skipped the State of the Union. I've been fed up with Obama speeches for a bit—strange, considering he's the best political speaker of my lifetime, certainly. But I just couldn't take another...
Two weeks ago, Secretary of State Clinton issued a statement on Internet rights for all, pledging to file a formal State Department protest regarding this month's alleged Google China censorship and...
The future of journalism: it's the subject of books, panel discussions, and countless blog posts and news articles, most of which revolve around the ways we can fund media after the shift to the Web....
