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We acknowledge and give honor to Rosa Parks as the Mother of Civil Rights during the movement led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in the by-gone era of the 60’s. We also point to the fact that she should be known as the “Mother of the Nation”. Just like George Washington, former President of the United States, was known ...

There are few people on this earth that I love more than Abena Agyeman-Fisher , the Senior Editor at NewsOne.  A consummate professional and arguably the leading online journalist in the country, Abena is never someone I would accuse of being a liar.  But this morning, after rolling out of bed and sitting at my desk in my gym shorts, I really thought my colleague might have been hitting the crack pipe. “Dr. Boyce, Rick Santorum has a video up in which he refers to President Obama as a n*gger,” she said to me.

Discussion and analysis of why films that did less well in US box office rankings have been released in Europe while Red Tails, which shows African-Americans fighting and dying  in Europe in a real war,  has not been released there. It is the true story of the best fighter pilots in World War II, an all black unit known as the ...

By Doshon Farad On February 26th, 2012 in Sanford, FL., 17 year old Trayvon Martin, a young black man, was shot and killed while visiting his father’s fiancé in a gated community. The killer was 28 year old George Zimmerman, a white Hispanic block captain who claimed that he shot Martin in self defense while making a routine patrol in the area. During a ...

Once upon a time, there lived a boy named Trayvon Martin. You might have heard something about Mr.

Melissa Harris-Perry Despite the end of Jim Crow, it is once again socially, politically and legally acceptable to presume the guilt of nonwhite bodies.

I watched in shock as a young black woman at Florida Atlantic University (FAU) became violent in class during a discussion on the death of the late Trayvon Martin. The student cursed at her classmates and eventually attacked people in the room.

By Doshon Farad New York, N.Y.-Last night, Sunday, March 25th,in Brooklyn, at the historic House of the Lord Church, writer and activist Kevin Powell hosted a very powerful rally in honor of slain teen Trayvon Martin, a 17 year old young black man who was shot and killed on February 26th in Sanford, Florida, by George Zimmerman, a 28 year ...

Black history may soon find that it is defined by one line of demarcation:  BB (Before Obama) and AB (After Obama).   There might even be some historical reference to the volatile period called DB (During Obama), where an archive will contain images of black people going to blows over where our community should be positioned on the Obama issue. The Obama presidency, unfortunately, has done more to divide black leadership than any event in the last 100 years.   There are those who’ve chosen to side with the winning team, refusing to critique the Obama Administration on even the tiniest issues.  Such criticism is readily interpreted as an assault on the absolute dictatorial authority that the Obama Administration seeks to maintain over African American political activity; they give us their agenda, not the other way around.  The seemingly silly idea of “free Democratic thought” is as dead as the 8-track tape. Then, there are those who challenge Obama to varying degrees.  Some provide reasonable and justifiable concerns, while there are some who criticize the president without trying to even observe the pragmatic limitations of running the most powerful (and racist) nation on earth

One of my best friends and mentors sent me the screenshot above which pushed me to write about the Trayvon “hoodie” phenomenon. Dr. Boyce Watkins mentioned the “#HoodiesUp” theme for rallies was something done for creativity when we spoke. However, at this point, I see it as a fad and platform for “slacktivism”. A profile picture with a hoodie, ice ...