By Doshon Farad Yesterday, Dec.4th, President Obama issued a warning to Syrian President Bashar Assad concerning intelligence reports of his government creating chemical weapons. The social unrest in Syria, which has been attributed to the nearly two year old Arab Spring, has garnered worldwide attention for quite some time now. Bashar’s government has been accused of killing thousands of innocent ...

By Jason Williams With the re-election of Pres. Obama, African Americans are yet again being told that they are not to make any demands from Pres. Obama that they would not make to any other President.  Instead they must benefit strictly from color blinded policies, while other minority groups can indeed be recipients to policy initiatives that directly target their ...

Senior Obama Administration Officials have announced that President Obama has ordered all young illegal immigrants to stop being deported. Obama has stipulated that if the young immigrants came to the U.S. as young children and do not pose a security threat, they should not be deported. To qualify as “young”, the illegal immigrants must have arrived in the country while ...

By Wallace Q. Weaver As the popular maxim goes, “Behind every great man, there is a great woman.” This saying has been found fairly correct throughout history, and the Obamas are no different. Regardless of the public opinion on President Obama and his policies, Michelle Obama remains an American sweetheart. I feel this is especially true for the Black community. ...

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is calling on the Senate to pass legislation that will assist women to earn the same pay as men. The bill is not expected to win the support it needs to move forward. Obama says women now earn, on average, 77 cents for every dollar earned by a man. Republicans say the legislation would place ...

By Wallace Q. Weaver Donald Trump and many extreme right conservatives still question President Obama’s birth record, claiming he was born in Kenya (or maybe Mars, it’s hard to keep up). Well, one liberal group would like to answer the birther question with a question of their own: Is Mitt Romney a unicorn? A democrat from Arizona has started a ...

By Nomalanga Mhlauli-Moses No one can deny that a part of President Obama’s success is due to the love and support of his wife, First Lady, Michelle Obama. In spite of numerous attempts at tarnishing the Obamas’ name, Mrs. Obama has managed to remain positive and carry herself with class and dignity. Below are some reasons why I and the ...

In the previous life before my previous life, I used to be a break dancer.   I was damn good too.  I could pop, lock, twist, twirl, and spin my body in ways that made me the coolest thing since Beta Max VCRs.   I was, quite frankly, “da bomb.” One day during class, as I was openly reminiscing on my extraordinary accomplishments as a break dancer, I decided to give my students just a taste of what they missed by being born 20 years too late.  So I did a dance called “the wave” right in front of them, taking the imaginary pulse into my left hand, toward my torso, down to my feet, back up to a quick heart beat and out the right side of my body.  It was simply amazing, if I do say so myself.

Jeffrey Goldberg of “The Atlantic” does a wonderful job of describing what he refers to as racist “dog whistling” by leading Republicans.  The writer explains the manner by which America has walked away from blatant race-baiting, but is fully willing to elect a candidate who engages in “dog whistling,” or referencing race in ways that allow him to avoid accountability for the harmful effect of his remarks

There is an old joke that refers to the wife as the “old ball and chain.” Then there’s the old joke that refers to the man who feels he has “married his mother.” In the new millennium where marriage is being devalued less and less as an institution, the Wall Street Journal is shedding light on the Nagging Spouse Syndrome. ...