In his address to a joint session of Congress, President Barack Obama sought to reassure an anxious nation: But while our economy may be weakened and our confidence shaken; though we are living through difficult and uncertain times, tonight I want every American to know this: We will rebuild, we wil...

Tavis Smiley’s 10th annual State of the Black Union will be held next weekend in Los Angeles. In these difficult economic times, the attendees can save money by reading a new report from the Center for American Progress. The report, “Minorities and the Labor Market in the Recession by the Number...

“The delusion of power also appears to provide an escape for middle-class Negroes from the world of reality which pierces through the world of make-believe of the black bourgeoisie. The positions of power which they occupy in the Negro world often enable them to act autocratically towards other Ne...

During his acceptance speech, newly elected Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele asked: “How ya like me now?� If Steele is asking black folks, it’s not much. You can put a black face on the GOP but it’s still the GOP. My colleague Michael Fauntroy wrote: Michael Steele’s a...

Though we had to wait a few extra minutes, President Barack Obama is in the White House. I attended a watch party at the Harlem Armory organized by the Democracy Prep Charter School. Thousands of charter school students, teachers and community members filled the historic armory. I had planned to wat...

President Bush made his â€œfarewell address to the nationâ€� last night. Whatever, just go already. After an interminable transfer of power, the 56th Presidential Inaugural Weekend kicks off tomorrow in Philadelphia, the first stop on the Whistle Stop Train Tour. I won’t be in DC for the ina...

It has been several days now and I’ve had time to chill and collect my thoughts. During that time, I have come to realize that my opposition to the seating of Roland Burris as the Junior Senator from Illinois is a mistake and a histrionic reaction to Rod Blagojevich’s mischievous and Machiavelli...

I seriously doubt that the Wayans Brothers or the writers of MAD TV could have written a funnier spoof than yesterday’s orgy of idiocy featuring Rod “Governor Sopranoâ€� Blagojevich, Roland Burris and Bobby Rush. To borrow a phrase from the always-quotable Christopher Hitchens, this appointm...

I’m a policy wonk so on Saturday, I attended a daylong conference on building bridges between African American and immigrant communities. As I walked past the Princeton Club, I thought about New York Times columnist David Brooks lauding President-elect Barack Obama for assembling a Cabinet of Wash...

Success has many fathers, but failure is an orphan. A number of groups, including African Americans, Millennials, union members, white women, Latinos, and Asian American Pacific Islanders, are taking credit for President-elect Barack Obama’s electoral college landslide. Groups are staking their cl...