President Barack Obama, Dred Scott: A case of domestic terrorism

By Tara Bynum, Ph.D., I am a real American/fight for the rights of every man… – Pro Wrestler Hulk Hogan, Theme Song My president is a “real American,” just as the opening song of his remarks at the White Correspondent dinner suggest. His long form birth certificate confirms this fact of course....

May 18th, 2011 | Featured, Politics, US | 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

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

Bush handed Obama a shovel and said, “I’m out-a here”

You can see it in the eyes of veteran Indian policy makers all across America because most of them have been there and done that: they are survivors of the federal budget ax. In a lot of ways there are cuts that must be made because this federal administration is in financial trouble, but it wasn’t...

March 7th, 2011 | American Indians, Featured, Politics, US | Read More

On abortion and humanness

My girl DeeDee was to most, including her older sister and mother, too young to care for a child. They, as women, had traveled the road of being young mothers and saw promise and redemption in DeeDee, who shared my gifted and talented classes in high school. I distinctly remember the somber faces...

March 7th, 2011 | Featured, Health, Politics, US | Read More

The battle of Egypt and the Western hypocrisy

The media coverage of the popular uprising in Egypt has exposed the Western apparatus of social control, and the backwardness of foreign policy. Most “experts” of foreign policy intentionally avoid engaging with the real issues and are in denial on at least three fundamental fronts: (a) the social...

February 16th, 2011 | Featured, Middle East, Politics, US, World | Read More

The State of the Union may be better than we think

Grading Obama's Second Year --With the voting pubic his job approval is less than 50% but, in my view, he still earns an A+ for spiritual intelligence. Suppose Barack Obama is “A Magic Negro,” as some of his detractors saw and quickly ridiculed so that “thinking” people would not look...

January 24th, 2011 | Featured, State of the Union, US | Read More

Why Wikileaks is good for democracy

“Information is the currency of democracy.” Thomas Jefferson. Since 9-11, the US government, through Presidents Bush and Obama, has increasingly told the US public that “state secrets” will not be shared with citizens. Candidate Obama pledged to reduce the use of state secrets, but President...

December 2nd, 2010 | Featured, US | Read More