Dr. Boyce Watkins and Min. Louis Farrakhan discuss wealth, education, family and community, a New Paradigm for Black America.  To learn more, please visit http://www.yourblackworld.net/betterblackamerica/     Click to Watch

      Dr. Boyce Watkins and Vigalantee discuss Lil Wayne’s apology during a recent tour stop.     Click to Watch

      Arickca Gordon Taylor, representative for the family of Emmett Till, speaks about the recent decision by Mountain Dew to drop Til from his endorsement deal     Click to Watch  

      For the last several weeks, we have been having a very familiar conversation about women, family, career, leadership and power. The common question is “can women have it all?” and the expected answer is “not all at the same time.” I think we are asking the wrong question. The better question would be: “What would you like ...

    Banking executive Tony Goins gives his take on the work-life-family balance.     Click to Watch    

    Kiese Laymon remembers on Gawker the summer when he was a graduate student and he and his girlfriend lived below a poor white family. One day, the cash-strapped family patriarch asked Laymon for $10, and then told him that he wasn’t like his “kind.” After he answered all my questions, Kurt got really close to my face. He looked up ...

    My husband is the perfect man for me. He is tall, handsome, smart, sweet, kind and my best friend. He is also white. In the new America, we (interracial couples) are becoming more and more common. One sign of the progress we have made as a country is that any child we have in the future also has ...

    One thing is clear: empowering women in business and leadership is critical to growth and prosperity. A diversity of voices at the decision-making table is the basis for innovation. What is less clear is the how. How do we as women balance career and family (especially young children) without the guilt? How do we promote ourselves at work ...

    “Now, white people, you can’t say ni**a/Sorry gotta take it back.  Now, black people, we’re not ni**as/God made us better than that.” – Lupe Fiasco, “Audobon Ballroom,” Food &Liquor II – The Great American Rap Album, Part 1 To paraphrase Lupe Fiasco: White people, you can’t say the n-word. If for some reason, this current “All Black Everything” moment ...

by Lauren Anderson I am a product of a mixed socioeconomic family in that I have been exposed to the bottom and top of society. I have traveled and lived from projects to suburbs. I have studied at community college to private institutions. I have worked from KFC to Corporate America. I have learned and adapted to each phase of ...