For U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, America’s top lawyer, father, and self-described social activist, uplifting the nation’s Black boys and young men of color is…
President Barack Obama and U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder – who are among the most powerful men in America – have become selectively involved in…
I’m trying to understand why Michael Brown is lying dead from a police officer’s bullet instead of packing his bags and heading to college. Brown,…
Yesterday, our columnist Tonya Pendleton penned her version of the Stephen A. Smith/Ray Rice Controversy. Today, Michael Cottman provides the male point of view. Sports…
On a recent segment of Keeping It Real with Rev. Al Sharpton, a nationally-syndicated radio show where I serve as a co-host, a troubling yet…
I’m a fanatical football fan. And I’m also a huge fan of Pam Oliver. For nearly two decades, I’ve watched Oliver talk football on Fox…
Did callous New York paramedics and police leave Eric Garner to die? It’s a disturbing question being asked by civil rights activists, witnesses and Garner’s…
I’m still questioning the notion of our so-called post-racial society after hearing about a white businessman who confronted a prominent Chicago judge – a 79-year-old…
Every time a black man is shot on the streets of Chicago, I think of my friend, Michele Dowdy, who lost her son to gun…
Ray Nagin, the former mayor of New Orleans, is heading to federal prison for 10 years. A jury concluded that Nagin took bribes, kickbacks and…
It’s not a stretch to compare Detroit to a third-world country. Not anymore. It’s been seven weeks since water has been turned off to thousands…
A coalition of prominent black women is supporting the White House initiative, “My Brother’s Keeper,” President Barack Obama’s ambitious effort to uplift and empower black…
