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Jennifer O’Brien, a teacher in Paterson, New Jersey is in serious trouble after remarks she made about her first graders on Facebook.  The teacher, who’d grown frustrated with her class, went to Facebook to state that some of her students were “future criminals.” The bulk of O’Brien’s students are Black and hispanic

The University of Miami may see its storied football program go up in smoke (for at least a while) after it was determined that a booster gave money, gifts and other sorts of lavish items to players in order to entice them to join the football program.

Like the rest of the country, I couldn’t help but notice the occurrence of Black teen ‘”flash mobs” around the country.

President Obama received some bad news this week: A recent Gallup Poll found that the approval rating for the president has dropped below 40 percent for the first time ever.

NCAA athletics has become the new prohibition – the illogical construct that creates a destructive underground economy because leadership is being guided by an illusion of what should be, rather than confronting the NCAA for what it really is: a professional sports league. Some of our most highly educated figures within academia are forced to convince themselves that a multi-billion dollar sports entertainment behemoth should be able to get away with not paying its primary employees. The smart white men running the NCAA also took enough history classes to easily see the parallels with slavery:  An oppressive and unethical institution that everyone knows to be a farce, yet it continues to survive because it would be entirely too costly to shut it down.

The new film, “The Help,” starring   Emma Stone ,  Viola Davis and  Octavia Spencer has gotten a bit of buzz recently. The film is based on a novel by Kathryn Stockett about two Black maids working in white households in Jackson, Mississippi during the late 1960s.

The recent release of data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics indicates that Black unemployment declined during the month of July. It had reached 16.2 percent and dropped over the course of the month to 15.9 percent.  While the number is an improvement, it is still nearly double that of white Americans. Black women were the greatest beneficiaries of the decline, dropping from 13.8 percent to 13.4 percent.

Respected commentator Earl Ofari Hutchinson recently made a set of accurate remarks about the challenges that President Obama faces within the African American community. He cites a recent  Washington Post/ABC News poll that shows that there are as many African Americans who are dissatisfied with the president’s performance as there are who are happy with it. One doesn’t need to be an expert to realize that there are fumes coming out of the nostrils of millions of African Americans who once saw President Obama as the knight in shining armor

GOP Representative Doug Lamborn from Colorado decided to stir the racial fire in the recent debate over the debt crisis this past weekend. In his remarks about President Obama, Rep. Lamborn said that being associated with President Obama is “like touching a tar baby.” Lamborn’s remarks (which are in the audio here ) came as he was trying to argue that President Obama will take much of the blame for what went wrong during the debt ceiling discussion.