Lesbian reporter Karen Ocamb has an interesting piece up at Bilerico.com called "Tavis Smiley's Big Day Without Gays" where she asks where were the Black LGBT people at Tavis Smiley's State of the Black Union conference held at the Los Angeles Convention Center last week? So this year's SOTBU promot...

Chris Brown appeared in a LA court today to answer two felony charges stemming from his assault of Rihanna. He was granted a continuance postponing his arraignment until April 6th.  He didn’t enter a plea either. Posted in crimes, current news analysis, health issues, messed up stuff, Race, S...

Brown will be arraigned today at 3.30pm Posted in crimes, current news analysis, health issues, international issues, messed up stuff, Race, Social issues Tagged: african american males and violence, black men, black superstars, chris brown and rihana, chris brown and rihanna, chris brown charged, d...

    First Michael Steele, GOP Chairman , thought he was a bad a#@ by calling Rush Limbaugh ’ugly’ and an entertainer . Then Limbaugh called him out  and instead of holding firm as a good leader should or is expected to do particularly when he’s right he ran to Limbaugh with...

by Guest Contributor Highjive, originally published at MultiCultClassics Change has come to America. But it took a detour around Madison Avenue. While citizens have adopted phrases like “post-racial,� the advertising industry operates in a pre-Civil Rights time warp. Whenever the topics of diver...

Filed under: Airlines, News I love good news from the aviation world - it really does bring a smile to my face amongst all the doom and gloom stories out there. A good example of something great comes from regional carrier Atlantic Southeast Airlines. For the first time in history, a domestic US fli...

Kanye West has lost his damn mind! He must have in trying to suggest we should cut Chris Brown some slack after he beat up Rihanna but he’s not the first black star to suggest that we ease up on Brown. First it was Terrence Howard and his insane comment that beating up women is “ ju...

by Guest Contributor HighJive, originally published at MultiCultClassics Change has come to America. But it took a detour around Madison Avenue. While citizens have adopted phrases like “post-racial,� the advertising industry operates in a pre-Civil Rights time warp. Whenever the topics of diver...

Note: Dawn and I began writing series in time for the February 1 beginning of Black History Month. It has “marinated” as a draft this long because of our desire to tackle what could be controversial issues without causing unnecessary offense. Refocusing Our Concept of Black History ̵...

How would he pull it off? I wondered. How would Barack explain to his press groupies why he sat silent in a pew for 20 years as the Rev. Jeremiah Wright delivered racist rants against white America for our maligning of Fidel and Gadhafi, and inventing AIDS to infect and kill black people? How would ...