The Gantt Report By Lucius Gantt – Who doesn’t like a clown? Some people say everybody loves a clown and the Ringling Brothers and UniverSoul circus shows have perhaps the best clowns in the world. But the second best clowns are so-called Negro leaders! Good clowns are funny and what is funnier than people claiming […]
Commentary
Hobbs’ Hump Day Hot Topics: President Obama wrong on Gay Marriage/Obama is right on Afghan troop withdrawal/Obama impersonator just plain wrong
PRESIDENT WRONG ON GAY CIVIL UNIONS/MARRIAGE Amid almost daily attacks from Republicans about economic and foreign policy issues, as President Obama and his campaign team gears up for 2012, a far deeper concern is how to keep certain core Democrat constituencies, in this instance Gay and Lesbian voters, in tow and ready to turn out […]
Leader of National Organization of Black Men Who Love Men Calls Media Coverage of Tracy Morgan’s Skit Racially Biased Tunnel-Vision
Shaquille O’Neal, the Center of Attention
By Raynard Jackson – Last week, N.B.A. great Shaquille O’Neal announced his retirement after 19 years of playing professional basketball. He stood 7’1” and weighed over 325 pounds (depending on the day of the week). He was one of the biggest people to ever play the game. He left Louisiana State University (LSU) after 3 […]
Proposed Mortgage Qualification Rule May End Homeownership As We Know It
Marc H. Morial (To Be Equal#23) – Homeownership, as we know it, could be a thing of the past if a proposed Qualified Residential Mortgage Rule (QRM) takes effect. In a letter I sent last week to the heads of the six federal agencies charged with developing risk retention regulations under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street […]
Monday Musings on Racial Gerrymandering under the Voting Rights Act/John Edwards’ Indictment in Federal Court
By Chuck Hobbs, Esq – RACIAL REDISTRICTING – Pulitzer Prize winning columnist Cynthia Tucker took the unusual step of breaking with her typically progressive orthodoxy in a recent editorial that calls for the end of racial gerrymandering under the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Tucker’s opinion—which I fully share—is that majority-minority districts, originally drawn to […]
It’s About Time
By Raynard Jackson – I have worked around 3 Republican presidents (Reagan, Bush, and Bush) and I can tell you for certain that one sure-fire way of learning a president’s priorities, is by who he agrees to spend time with (as in meetings). A president’s time is scheduled to the nth degree. So, if the […]
The “N-word”: What’s in a name, Black America?
By H. Lewis Smith – Whenever the “massa” gave the enslaved black man something, no matter what it was, he took it—whether voluntarily or by coercion. Sadly, no matter how demeaning or dreadful the thing may have been, he had no choice but to accept the token, allowing it to become a part of his […]
BEEP Prepares African American College Students for Jobs in Corporate America
By Marc H. Morial (To Be Equal #24) – Last week, June 8-11, more than 450 attendees, including 132 HBCU students, came together in Orlando, Florida for the National Urban League’s 42nd annual Black Executive Exchange Program (BEEP) Leadership Conference. BEEP, the National Urban League’s longest running direct service program, is a partnership involving the […]