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New York — They’re unlikely partners for a good cause. Frequent adversaries Rev. Al Sharpton and Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly teamed up Friday to announce a new gun buyback program that aims to take deadly weapons off the city streets

Let’s begin with the premise that no people, culture, religious, racial or ethnic group is by definition immoral. Not acknowledging this, at the core, is the problem with Juan Williams’ gross generalization about Muslims that recently got him fired from National Public Radio (NPR). But if NPR’s “Fresh Air” interview last week with the rapper Jay-Z about his new book Decoded is any indication, it’s a message still lost on Terry Gross

Melissa Harris-Perry As American life becomes more and more like reality television, could product placement of a candidate become the surest route to the presidency?

Bakari Kitwana speaks with economist Julianne Malveaux about key strategies that Blacks must deploy in order to survive in the current economy. For Malveaux this includes being equipped with the tools to dissect and act upon the recent Labor Department statistics on Black unemployment (15.7%), as well as the Economic Policy Institute’s findings on Black college graduates—over 15 percent of who are also unemployed.

Gary Younge Its partisans may be in search of political purpose, but that shouldn't make liberals complacent.

On the heels of President Obama’s self-professed “shellacking,” a renewed urgency for bipartisanship has emerged in Washington. One week later, a new study proves that the education gap between the races in the United States – specifically, the crisis facing young black men – remains as devastating as ever

Bakari Kitwana speaks with Oakland Activist Dereca Blackmon about last week’s sentencing of ex-transit officer Johannes Mehserle, who earlier this year was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the 2009 videotaped shooting death of Oscar Grant.

On Revernd Al Sharpton’s nationally syndicated radio show “Keeping It Real,” Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele was less than confident when asked about his future as the Republican chair. “Well…we’ll see how it goes,” Chairman Steele responded to a direct question.

Bakari Kitwana speaks with political analyst Keli Goff about mid-term elections results around the country. Goff responds to what she sees as surprising and not so surprising in key elections from Delaware and Nevada to West Virginia and Kentucky.

RAP SESSIONS WITH BAKARI KITWANA Bakari Kitwana speaks with political strategist, writer and organizer Alexis McGill Johnson about key mid-term election races that she’s watching today. They also discuss what is at stake for the Black community overall in today’s mid-term elections. McGill Johnson tells newsone.com why Senate and House races, key races in California and Nevada, and the youth vote are all crucial.