A lot of politicians do a whole lot of talking, but who should be held
accountable on the Black unemployment crisis?

 No one cares that this family has no home. No one seems to care about what will happen if this child grows up without the only woman on earth wired to love him unconditionally. No one seems to care about the massive costs to the state of prosecuting this mother and eventually the child, as we deliberately trap them in an intergenerational cycle of poverty and criminal justice.

According to Interracialdatingcentral.com., White
daughters dating Black men is the new trend, but
not every parent reacts the same way. Some White
parents are concerned and some downright hostile
to the concept.

Millry, Ala., is a town where racial tensions have allegedly been running high for a very long time. The boiling point was hit recently, when a White father came to the town’s high school and threatened one of the Black players on the basketball team.The infuriated parent told one of the boys that if any of them made contact with his daughter, he would “kill him and his Black friends,” said Latisha Mitchell, the step-mother of one of the players.

Mark Whitaker is CNN’s new managing editor. Heads were turning recently as CNN announced that it was hiring Mark Whitaker as it’s new Managing Editor. Whitaker, who is African-American, once served as the Washington Bureau Chief for NB...

Respected CBS News correspondent Harold Dow died last week at the age of 62. The death is a shock to all of those who follow Black public figures, as Dow was one of the most-respected Black journalists in America.

Dow leaves behind his wife, Kathy, and their three children: Danica, Joelle, and David. Dow was with CBS for nearly 40 years, covering some of the leading stories across America. He even covered the kidnapping of Patty Hearst and the release of Nelson Mandela. Dow is the winner of the prestigious Peabody Award and the Edward R. Murrow Award.

He was also nearly killed during the falling of the twin towers on Sept. 11, 2001. One of his greatest feats was getting the first network interview with O.J. Simpson, after the murders of Ronald Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson.

I recently watched an ABC News special about Black women not getting married. It featured a number of beautiful, intelligent Black women who couldn‘t find husbands. The show, which quoted Steve Harvey, who wrote a book on relationships last year, allowed the guest to drone on about how sad it is that the Black men that Black women want are just too blind and pathetic to see how great these women really are.

I can’t help but find it odd that Black women in America are taking relationship advice from a comedian. Not to hate on Steve, but you’ve got to wonder if there is a qualified relationship counselor available somewhere who actually studied this stuff in school. Perhaps it’s because Black America is getting relationship advice from a comedian that our family structures have become a great big national joke.

The latest story was an interesting case in which a group of children from a predominantly Black and Latino daycare were kicked out of the swimming pool at a country club that is predominantly White. The children overheard the parents at the pool making racially charged statements, and they also were not given an explanation from the owners of the club as to why they were being excluded. The daycare was given their money back, and told not to return.

When I heard the controversial and heated comments about President Obama that were made by my respected colleague Dr. Michael Eric Dyson, I felt like a second grader running outside to see the fight between two middle school kids. Both Barack and Michael are men I’ve grown to appreciate, and I love them for their strengths as well as their imperfections. Michael was the reason I became a public scholar during graduate school, as I would watch the words flow out of him like an MC in the booth dropping his hottest album.