Post-racial? Hardly.

Every once in a while, research results produce quizzical looks, general confusion, and a collective “Huh?” A recent example that has garnered media attention was published in the May 2011 issue of Perspectives on Psychological Science. The startling article asserts that whites believe that anti-white...

June 8th, 2011 | African Americans, Featured, Talk About Race | Read More

Is Satoshi Kanazawa’s problem racial, sexual, or both

The personal motivations of those who make them are the most interesting things about racist choices. Because I am African American and blog at Psychology Today a friend wrote to tell me about another blogger, Satoshi Kanazawa. Kanazawa, a lecturer at the London School of Economics, recently published...

May 26th, 2011 | African Americans, Featured, Talk About Race | Read More

The war on drugs is an unconstitutional war on African-Americans

By Renay Patterson-Scott, Public Policy Journalist Student, The Ohio State University, While President Barack Obama is busy signing bills into law that will improve life overall for Americans, his administration is completely ignoring one of the most pressing issues affecting African-Americans, the...

May 12th, 2011 | African Americans, Criminal Justice, Featured | Read More

Al Sharpton, Cornel West: Why Their Fight Is Good for Black America

My heart sank as I watched Cornel West and Rev. Al Sharpton going at it on MSNBC’s show, “A Stronger America: The Black Agenda.” Even host Ed Schultz had to shut down the bickering like a referee at an MMA fight that had gotten out of control. Neither West nor Sharpton is the type to back...

April 12th, 2011 | African Americans, Featured, Politics, US | Read More

More Black men now in prison system than were enslaved

By Dick Price, originally published on LA Progressive, “More African American men are in prison or jail, on probation or parole than were enslaved in 1850, before the Civil War began,” Michelle Alexander told a standing room only house at the Pasadena Main Library this past Wednesday, the...

March 31st, 2011 | African Americans, Criminal Justice, Featured | Read More

Poll: 27% of African Americans lose faith in Obama over Libya

According to a recent survey conducted by YourBlackWorld.com, 27.3% of African American respondents claim that President Obama’s most recent actions in Libya have reduced their faith in his leadership ability. Roughly 20.8% of respondents claim that the Libyan intervention has increased their...

March 30th, 2011 | African Americans, Featured, Politics, Talk About Race | Read More

Glen Ford: American imperialism is unraveling (part 2)

Glen Ford worked as a Network Broadcast Journalist in Washington DC and created in 1977 along with Peter Gamble, America’s Black Forum which was the first nationally syndicated black news interview program on commercial television. America’s Black Forum was quoted weekly by national and...

March 21st, 2011 | African Americans, Featured, Politics, US | Read More

Claiming our power in the fight against AIDS

I sat before the room dumbfounded. Surrounding me were brilliant, beautiful, driven, and successful young women. Each high achievers in their own right. Each on the verge of certain success. Yet, these young women who had originally come to my office to discuss transversing that critical, but...

March 10th, 2011 | African Americans, Featured, Women | Read More