By Jackie Jones
The blogosphere is where black achievement can be touted and become the engine that drives mainstream media to take notice and young African Americans hold the key to it in the palm of their collective hand.

August 26th marks the seventh anniversary of the day Eddie Joe Lloyd was freed from a Michigan prison after serving 17 years for a murder he did not commit. Lloyd, who was mentally ill, allegedly gave a false confession to police before his conviction. Sadly, he died after just two years of freedom.

By Kevin Eason
Kevin Eason is a freelance editorial cartoonist and Illustrator from NJ. His brand of satire covers news events in politics, entertainment, sports and much more.

By TaRessa Stovall and Stacey Patton
President Obama’s movement to reform the US healthcare system has been hijacked beyond heated debate to propaganda-slinging and naked hostility, fueled in large part by super-influential rightwing media figures such as Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Lou Dobbs, Glenn Beck and, of course, Fox TV, which have whipped some of their followers into a fever pitch of fear, protest and rage that is more personal than political.

By Stacey Patton
I’ve never had a strong paternal longing. Sadly, I’ve spent much of my adult years wondering whether black fathers are even necessary. And I’ve listened to black women being demonized for asserting the roles of mother and father and for telling their daughters to be prepared to raise children on their own because a black man might not stick around.

So it with mixed emotions that I respond to President Barack Obama’s new “Fatherhood Initiative” which is being coordinated by the White House Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships.

By The Editors
The federal government’s $11-billion project to help Louisiana homeowners recover from the 2005 hurricanes Katrina and Rita unfairly penalizes most black homeowners, especially those in New Orleans, according to the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund.

By Rev. Susan Newman
The bible says, “The love of money is the root of evil.” (I Timothy 6:10). The Rev. Frederick J. Eikerenkoetter, II, better known as “Reverend Ike,” who passed away on July 28, at the age of 74, famously declared that, “The lack of money is the root of all evil. I am not a black preacher. I’m a green preacher. The only color of power in the American economy is green power.”

By Mark Lassiter
In the face of mounting attacks by conservatives, it may be time for President Barack Obama and those who organized to get him elected to take a page from the Ali playbook.

By Eisa Nefertari Ulen
In 1998, Ron Kavanaugh founded Mosaic, a literary magazine that celebrates the work of contemporary African-American and Latino writers. Ten years later, Mosaic still publishes reviews of literary work, interviews with important writers, and art that folk can dig. Recent covers include first time novelist Marlon James, Dark Room Collective Co- Founder Thomas Sayers Ellis, and author of The Beautiful Struggle, Ta-Nehisi Coates.

By Lee A. Daniels
There are four men still living who know in all of its gruesome detail the maelstrom of violence that took the lives of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael “Mickey” Schwerner that June night in Neshoba County, Mississippi during the “Mississippi Freedom Summer” of 1964.