We’ve all heard of some pretty asinine American laws – like the ones that used to be on the books legislating Jim Crow, interracial marriage and even spitting on the sidewalk.   But check out a modern one: In Texas, a criminal must give his or her victim 24 hours’ […]

The passage of U.S. health-care reform should mean the year-long fight is officially over, but the lawsuit Louisiana and other states are waging about the constitutionality of the law means we now are entering another phase. And the debate over why we should or shouldn’t have universal health care is […]

In a crime-ridden neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago (my hometown), where some people are scared to even let their children play outside, one public high school has done what many people probably considered impossible. Urban Prep High School is all African-American. It’s all male. And every student in […]

In a six-month span, I lost two male friends, Michael and Cody, because of senseless violence. Michael was a loving father and recent college graduate. Cody was a college student with a lust for life. Two very different souls with a very similar story; both were under the age of […]

Drink it all in, Who Dat Nation. Drink it all in. Do not adjust your TV set. Do not pinch yourself. You have not entered “The Twilight Zone.” This is not a Stanley Kubrick movie. You are not dreaming. The football team in the “City That Care Forgot” with the […]

I’m sure we were all stunned – especially those who actually survived Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and/or lost loved ones and possessions – by the devastation of Haiti by two major earthquakes in less than a two-week period, with an estimated death toll now as high as 200,000 and up […]