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Last month the Bureau of Justice Statistics confirmed that rapes and sexual assault of U.S. prison inmates have reached epidemic proportions. The data states that nearly one in 10 prisoners report having been raped or sexually assaulted by other inmates, staff, or both. In 2003, Congress created a separate report by the National Prison Rape Elimination Commission, which challenges to take the issue seriously, ...

Legendary soul singer/songwriter Stevie Wonder may have just stirred the pot of controversy. The 62-year-old music icon revealed his thoughts about Frank Ocean, homosexuality, gun violence, and being ‘disadvantaged’ in a recent interview with The Guardian. When the topic of Frank Ocean was discussed, Wonder expressed praise for the artist, even saying he sang the hook to “No Church In ...

By Nomalanga Mhlauli-Moses Paul Ryan, the Republican Party’s  nominee for Vice President of the United States in the 2012 election, “casually” mentioned, in an interview, that he dated a Black woman. He also mentioned that he has a Black sister in law.Somehow this brought back memories of when I would be around non-Black people who would try to make me ...

by Agyei Tyehimba I am becoming increasingly irritated by Facebook and other comments in which people insist that racism no longer exists or thrives in America. I cringe with each “America is post-racial” comment or insinuation. Every “race is simply a by-product of capitalist exploitation: it will fall with capitalism” statement causes my skin to crawl and my stomach to ache. ...

By Doshon Farad Dr. Michael Eric Dyson once said, “Michael Jackson gave us out of the depth of his suffering a transcending possibility of looking at black identity through the prism of black art.” Jackson followed the path that so many African-American icons have traveled. By this I mean, like Robeson, King and Malcolm before him, whose talents and work ...

During his State of the Union Address in January President Obama claimed that he “will go anywhere in the world to open new markets for American products.” What if “anywhere in the world” means inside U.S. prisons? With widespread spending cuts already scheduled for public assistance programs like Medicare and Medicaid and yet another deficit anticipated in FY 2013, President ...

by Sil Lai Abrams A few weeks ago I wrote an opinion piece for theGrio.com on how viewers of reality television shows like Love & Hip Hop Atlanta were actively supporting VH1’s and executive producer Mona Scott-Young’s racist and misogynistic assault on the image of black women in America.  Given that L&HHA was the most popular show on cable among ...

by Wallace Q. Weaver Once again, we have been given proof that we do not live in a post-racial society. Racism is alive and well and our failure to address it only perpetuates it. Perhaps what Vice President Biden said, when he made a gaffe about slavery, was far too mild. According to the latest viral image floating through social ...

  by Lawrence Watkins If you are looking for someone who personifies academic and business success in the African-American community, Dr. Randal Pinkett is your go-to guy. Most people remember his rise to fame as the winner of the fourth season of Donald Trump’s The Apprentice, a high point of his career — but there is much more to the man than ...

Is he a tough guy?  Well, he’s trying to be one now.  Shortly after Rihanna went onto Oprah and stated her love for Chris Brown in public, Chris is starting to show up in celebrity photos again.  In this picture, Chris is hanging out with The Game on the West Coast. Brown was in Compton with The Game on the ...