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 George E. Curry
England’s attempt to fully understand rioting touched off by a policeman’s fatal shooting of Mark Duggan, a 29-year-old black man, in many ways mirror the debate that followed the urban unrest that the United Statesunderwent in the wake of Dr. Martin Luther King’s assassination in 1968.

By Kenneth J. Cooper
Near the end of a new book on India, where I was a foreign correspondent for the Washington Post in the late 1990s, I read about a 2006 government report’s finding that Muslims had fewer jobs in the formal economy “than any other community.” That would include the former untouchables, Hindus now known as Dalits.

By George E. Curry
U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk thinks it is now time for a Third Great Migration, this one to far-flung cities around the world.

By Lee A. Daniels
These Germans express their pining for the white-supremacist days of old by clothing themselves as the heroic nineteenth-century defenders of white supremacy in the U.S.

By Stacey Patton My Dear Sisters, Over the past week or so I’ve read many tweets, Facebook postings, blog rants, and online petitions in response to Psychology Today’s posting of a ‘scientific’ study – “Why Are Black Women Less Physically Attractive Than Other Women” by Satoshi Kanazawa. The reaction to Kanazawa’s armchair psychobabble which was [...]

By Kenneth J. Cooper
Don’t cry for Osama.

By Janet Singleton
Canada too, the modest parallel universe above the United States, celebrated Black History Month in February. But that may surprise people who assume Canada is white and untouched by slavery.

By Lee A. Daniels
Once again, we have seen that, when the whole world is watching, the power of the yearning for liberty and opportunity – propelled by fearless action – can upend a repressive regime.

By Kenneth J. Cooper
Because I was often mistaken for Egyptian, I had my own brushes with police hostility, especially from the plainclothes officers, who seemed to be everywhere.