Black Folks Seem to Be OK With Clinton’s VP Pick, But Sanders’ Peeps Not...
Hillary Clinton announced her vice presidential pick Friday, and though many didn’t seem to know much about Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia, most black folks seem OK with her choice. Bernie Sanders’...
View ArticleThis Election, Let’s Refocus on the Pillar Issues
As citizens, we deserve election seasons that are seesawing, back-and-forth spectacles of clashing ideas. Instead we find ourselves often immersed in the frantic pace of the horse race. Campaigns...
View ArticleDemocrats Will Unite After They Finish Self-Destructing Over Emails,...
As the Democratic National Convention gets underway, it’s always good to remember what Will Rogers once said: “I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.” And boy, those words...
View Article‘Mothers of the Movement’ Stand With Hillary Clinton at the DNC
It was an emotional moment Tuesday night when the “Mothers of the Movement” took the stage at the Democratic National Convention to speak about their children’s deaths and endorse Democratic...
View Article#Election2016: Trump Ain’t New, and Clinton Ain’t Savior
“To not vote for Hillary is to vote for Trump” is a refrain that liberals have championed this election season. It often rears its ugly head when leftists or black radicals denounce the two-party...
View ArticleTo Conservatives Outraged Over Nude Photos of Melania Trump: Where Were You...
Some say the New York Post went too far. The Sunday cover of the newspaper, which had endorsed Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump in the New York primary, featured a controversial image of...
View ArticleGreen Alert: Presidential Hopeful Dr. Jill Stein Taps Human Rights Activist...
Green Party presidential hopeful Dr. Jill Stein has tapped Ajamu Baraka as her vice presidential pick for the upcoming 2016 election. Read more about Baraka below via Stein’s campaign website: Ajamu...
View ArticleDear Centrists: The Left Has Something to Say Whether You Like It or Not
The contours of the 2016 presidential title match—Hillary Rodham Clinton in the blue corner and Donald J. Trump in the orange corner—have been shaped by the politics of fear, the presence of privilege,...
View ArticleAntonio Sabato Jr. and Stacey Dash Believe Stumping for Trump Got Them...
Pop quiz (and bonus points if reading those words made you think of Tamia): When is the last time Antonio Sabato Jr. was poppin’? Most will likely answer the early to mid-1990s, when Sabato gained...
View ArticleObama Gets Hype for Blistering DNC Speech by Listening to Eminem’s ‘Lose...
If you thought President Barack Obama bodied his swan song speech at the Democratic National Convention last month, you can thank the one and only Slim Shady for getting POTUS amped up. Obama can be...
View ArticleMarc Lamont Hill on Voting Green, Not Being Afraid of Trump: ‘We Can Afford...
Marc Lamont Hill, Morehouse College Distinguished Professor of African-American Studies, New York Times best-selling author of Nobody, VH1 talk show host and a much sought after political and cultural...
View Article1 Year Later: BLM Protester Who Interrupted Bernie Sanders’ Rally Discusses...
It’s been a year since Mara Willaford and I jumped up onstage with presidential candidate Bernie Sanders in what would become one of the most controversial Black Lives Matter actions to date. Filled...
View ArticleLegal, Media Experts Say White Supremacists Are Using Trump to Grow Numbers
White supremacists have found their guy. And will stop at nothing to ensure that he is elected. That was the sentiment expressed during a press call Wednesday in the wake of Republican presidential...
View ArticleA Dear John Letter to the Democratic Party
Dear Democratic Party, First, I want to tell you that I appreciate all you’ve done for me, but I have just begun to realize that our relationship is abusive. I know that most relationships are based on...
View ArticleNY Man Builds Barbed Wire Fence to Protect Donald Trump Sign
One New York man wants to make absolutely sure you know exactly who he’s supporting in this year’s presidential race. In fact, he seems to have taken a lesson straight out of his candidate’s book;...
View ArticleThese 4 Court Rulings Give Police Powerful Weapons to Abuse Your Rights. They...
The emergence of Donald Trump as the self-proclaimed “law and order” candidate on November’s presidential ballot should be cause for serious concern for all of us. If not for the reasons related to the...
View ArticleHey, Katrina Pierson: When It Comes to Utter Stupidity, That’s Donald Trump’s...
In Soul Food, Big Mama had to come to the realization that all those Sunday dinners had led her to develop what many of us refer to as “the sugar,” and ultimately she had to submit to doctor’s orders...
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#GenForward: Majority of White Millennials Believe Black Lives Matter...
The majority of black millennials in the United States wanted Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) to be their next president, but since he’s out of the race, 60 percent of black millennials said they would...
View ArticleAs the Race Tightens, Hillary Clinton Knows #BlackVotesMatter
The week after Labor Day is the official beginning of the campaign to be president of the United States of America. Commercials and news coverage will fool you into thinking that the campaign has been...
View Article‘Educational Choice’ is a slogan slick enough for Donald Trump
Donald Trump outlined his policy and philosophy for K-12 education in a speech on Thursday at Cleveland Arts and Social Sciences Academy (CASSA), a for-profit charter school in the largest city of...
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