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For starters, the fact that the Michael Richards incident is still being churned throughout mainstream media is just too funny for me to just ignore it at this point. In some way, I feel like I did back in high school when my friends and I would sit on the top bleachers and crack on folks that were on the court. Except this time it is MSM who is on ...More

Article 1: (AP) WASHINGTON — About 30,000 applications from immigrants seeking citizenship were processed by the government even though thousands of background files used to determine eligibility were missing, congressional investigators found. Details of the investigation by the Government Accountability Office were released by Republican Sens. Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Susan Collins of Maine Tuesday. According to the GAO, 14 Citizenship and Immigration Services offices were missing 110,000 alien files, or A-files. ...More

Remember this day! Democrats Reject Key 9/11 Panel Suggestion Neither Party Has an Appetite for Overhauling Congressional Oversight of Intelligence (washingtonpost.com) It was a solemn pledge, repeated by Democratic leaders and candidates over and over: If elected to the majority in Congress, Democrats would implement all of the recommendations of the bipartisan commission that examined the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. But with control of Congress now secured, Democratic leaders have decided for now ...More

SHANGHAI, China (AP) - The number of newly reported AIDS cases and HIV infections has jumped 70 percent from last year in Shanghai, China's largest city, the government said Wednesday. The 621 new HIV/AIDS cases reported through Nov. 20 of this year brought Shanghai's total to 2,216, of whom 97 have died, said an official at the Shanghai Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Like many Chinese bureaucrats, the official refused ...More

(forbes.com) As more and more employers conduct criminal background checks on applicants, critics have charged that such screening is unfair to blacks, who are more likely to have criminal records. But a new study published in The Journal of Law and Economics argues just the opposite. In fact, employers who perform criminal background checks “are in general more likely to hire African-Americans,” say the authors, Harry J. Holzer of the Georgetown ...More

(philly.com) The last time I saw Bebe Moore Campbell was in August of 2005 at the National Book Club Conference in Atlanta. I was in the audience while she read from her latest novel, 72 Hour Hold. I savored the moment. That was also the year Terry McMillan dominated the headlines after discovering that her husband and literary muse, Jonathan Plummer, was not only gay, but on the down low to ...More

WILLIAMSBURG, Va., Nov. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Jamestown 2007, the organizers of America's 400th Anniversary, in partnership with Tavis Smiley Presents, Inc. announced today that the "State of the Black Union 2007" will be held at the Hampton University Convocation Center on February 10, 2007, as part of America's 400th Anniversary. The symposium is free to the public, and will be broadcast live via C- SPAN. Anyone interested in attending can register ...More

This is one of those issues that I have yet to figure out. Oftentimes when a person makes an "racist" comment, or if a place of business is accused of not treating its Black employees/customers fairly, the preachers are the ones that usually line up in front of the cameras to demand an apology--OR ELSE. Did Christ ever demand that those who crucified him should apologize OR ELSE? While I ...More