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WJKS Kiss 101.7 in Delaware has some explaining to do.

This week, we released the results of a Your Black World Survey in which the majority of Black respondents (56.9 percent) felt that President Obama should have spoken up on behalf of the late Troy Davis . Many throughout the world, including former FBI Director William Sessions and former President Jimmy Carter felt the execution was unjust.

As I stood in the courtyard of Jackson State Prison in Georgia yesterday holding a prayer vigil for Troy Anthony Davis, I, like so many others held out hope for some sort of miracle.

Melissa Harris-Perry Electoral racism may be dead, but is there a more subtle form of racism at work in the white flight from Obama?

Tyler Perry recently topped off the list of the highest paid men in entertainment. Perry raked in an estimated $130 million last year between his films and two TBS television shows, “House of Payne” and “Meet the Browns.” The list was compiled by Forbes Magazine and helps Perry stake his claim as a serious power player among Hollywood big shots. Perry wasn’t the only African American on the list

Gary Younge Whatever the spark, social unrest is the predictable result of conditions like poverty, discrimination and police brutality.

Rep. Maxine Waters (D.

Arizona, a state that is regularly accused of having a serious issue with people of color, received another stain to its reputation. Last week, four white female students at Arizona State University showed up to a football game wearing Black face

In his latest and most interesting act of what I shall refer to as an “on-going masterpiece of unadulterated ignorance,” the rapper Soulja Boy wrote some lyrics that were clearly disrespectful of American troops risking their lives fighting overseas. In his song, “Let’s Be Real,” the rapper says: “ [Bleep] the FBI and [bleep] all the Army troops/ Fighting for what? [Bleep] be your own man,” Of course, the lyrics didn’t win Soulja Boy many new fans

The Bureau of Labor Statistics has released its most recent unemployment data. We knew that Black folks (especially men) would be at the bottom, we just didn’t know how bad