Financial literacy workshop series helps college students master saving and control spending. Published in Wire Tap Magazine. (This story originally appeared on Black College Wire ) When he was 18, John Hope Bryant spent six months homeless. He lived in his car until he could find another place to l...

"Work? Work is my mother working 16 hours a day in a sweatshop, and my father working in a restaurant all day every day," he said. What I have to do - going to campaign events, meeting people and shaking hands, talking issues with journalists, this is fun. — John Liu upon being told by Errol L...

The Economist thinks we are all destined to become middle class, which of course begs the question; the middle of what exactly? In true Economist fashion they pull out the info-porn graphs and quote Marx whenever it suits them. They’re always good for a laugh, no?...

. TERM "REPUBLICAN" IS NO LONGER IN USE 150-YEAR-OLD PARTY LABEL CHANGED FOR THE FIRST TIME Webster Editor Says "It's A Sign Of The Times" In recognition of the increasing use of the term "assholes" to describe members of the G.O.P., the world's most popular dictionary has dropped the definition of ...

By Chuck Norris There they go again! The House and Senate have buried us in yet another bailout-stimulus heaping pile of fiscal dung — a $789 billion loan that has been tacked onto our children’s (and children’s children’s) already staggering $10-plus trillion deficit. Are yo...

“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...

Almost absent from the dominant discussion of the federal stimulus package (and bailouts) is any attempt at progressive change that goes beyond the surface of ‘what we buy.’ I spoke yesterday about tying taxpayer expenditures to a living wage - but I’ve been thinking about this typ...

Smell that fresh air? A new breeze is blowing. Ever since the Wagner Act legalizing unionization passed 74 years ago, right wingers have been trying to gut it. Corporations at first ignored it altogether until forced by the Supreme Court to surrender their opposition. With a post-Roosevelt Republica...

The most sensuous writer in the English language is dead. No one wrote more sensuous prose than John Updike. He carried his lyricism into his 70s. He was 76 when he died yesterday. The cause was lung cancer, according to his publisher, Alfred A Knopf. He was – for his style and views perhaps – o...

I just interviewed Suzanne Guillette about her new book, Much to Your Chagrin: A Memoir of Embarrassment . It’s about a young woman who desperately wants to publish a book to establish herself as a writer and justify her expensive MFA. I submitted to Suzanne the book is really about a young wo...