By Lee A. Daniels
The equality-loving – so they say – College Republican club at the University of California at Berkeley yesterday held what they described as a satirical “bake sale” on the storied campus to publicize their opposition to any change in 15-year-old ban against state institutions adopting affirmative action policies.

By George E. Curry
Facing the worst polling numbers of his administration, an increasingly alienated Democratic base and rigidly uncooperative Republicans, President Obama has junked his Compromiser-in-Chief approach and started calling out members of the GOP who oppose adopting programs that will help revive the economy.

By Vern E. Smith
At the final curtain call of another sold-out performance of “The Green Book,” Atlanta playwright Calvin Alexander Ramsey’s moving two-act drama set in America before the dawn of the Civil Rights Movement, veteran Atlanta actor Rob Cleveland, who plays its central character, told the well-integrated Balzer Theater audience: “None of us had ever heard of this book before we started the play.”

By Lee A. Daniels
Why, after Texas Governor, and Republican Party presidential nomination seeker, Rick Perry, shrugged off his poor college grades before a university audience the other day, has there been nothing but silence from certain quarters?

By Lee A. Daniels
New Mexico’s new Republican Governor Susana Martinez has drawn significant national attention not only because she’s the first Latinato hold that high office in the U.S., but also because she’s pushed a hard-line against undocumented immigrants—most of whom, of course, are from Latin America.

By Kenneth J. Cooper
Right after the news reports about a credible threat of a terrorist truck bombing on the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, I posted this as my status on my email account: “Sept. 11 is a feint. Americans be wary Oct. 6, anniversary of US invasion of Afghanistan.”

By Lee A. Daniels I. Strangely, I felt no fear that morning, September 11, 2001, even though the Wall Street offices of the organization I was then working for were only a mile east of the World Trade Center complex, where a certain kind of American innocence was perishing, along with thousands of people. Instead, [...]

By Kasha Dragon
The track and field world championships are over. The athletes, medals in hand or not, have packed up and left the heretofore little-known South Korean city of Daegu and scattered to their homes all over the globe.
Most of the world has moved on.
But in Grenada, one of the world’s smallest island nations and in one of its smallest communities, the fishing village of Gouyave, on its west coast, there’re still celebrating the less-than-45 seconds it took to put them on the map of the track and field universe.

By Lee A. Daniels
The condition of America’s political economy – that is, the political war in Washington between the Congressional Republicans and President Obama over how to fix the economy – may well get worse.

By Tarice L.S. Gray
“Misdiagnosed and undiagnosed [autistic] black children end up in jail,” Proctor said. “If I haven’t got him any sort of vocational skills, language skills, behavioral skills, instead of my son being Ari, his name is going to be inmate 402197. And I just couldn’t be on this earth and let him or another child of color be that.”