Freedom Rider

A Police Killing in Brooklyn It is rough being black. We often kill one another for little or no reason, but we also live with the threa...

Sex Abuse Scandal at the Boys Choir of Harlem This week I cover the Boys Choir of Harlem sex abuse scandal in my Black Commentator colum...

Howard Dean is Crazy! If you read the main stream press you would think that was the case. Funny, but the media usually don't use un...

Belated Thanks to Alternet.org I am a little late thanking Alternet.org for recently posting two of my Black Commentator columns. One on...

For Entertainment Purposes Only To heck with John Kerry and Howard Dean. Let's talk about Michael Jackson. He is always good for a l...

Kerry Wins in Iowa Well, is my face red. I had predicted a Kerry implosion, unfortunately I did so before anyone had the chance to vote....

Conspiracy Monday Happy King Day. I am experiencing the twin impulses of lethargy after attending an overly long King Day service, in fa...

Iowa The Iowa caucuses will be held tomorrow. Much has changed on the political landscape in the past few weeks. It looked like Dean wou...

Martin Luther King Day I both welcome and dread the celebration of Dr. King's birthday. His contribution to world history is rarely ...

Bill Bennett and the Dominatrix Was Bill Bennett working more than high priced slot machines in Las Vegas? The current rumor, courtesy o...

History of Saddam and the U.S. Check out this history of U.S. involvement with Saddam, the evil tyrant.

"Blind Man in a Room Full of Deaf People" Former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill's description of Bush at cabinet meet...

Moveon.org Bush Ads Moveon.org has sponsored a contest to create 30 second anti-Bush ads. Check them out here . You will need Quicktime ...

Wal-Mart Do you want to lose your lunch when you see those sappy commercials about the beneficence of Wal-Mart? If so, you are on the ri...

Home Grown Terror Pinch me. The mainstream media is reporting on the Texas terror threat. Too bad these would be terrorists weren't...

Dean's Electability Arianna Huffington is back, not as a candidate for California governor, thank God. The once conservative pundit ...

Black Ops George W. Bush loves photo ops with black people, especially kids. Here he is in St. Louis promoting the discredited No Child ...

God is a Republican Did you know that God was a Republican? He is according to Pat Robertson. By the way, the Almighty has informed Robe...

Democratic Stupidity in 2004 One would think that after the debacle of the 2000 election that the democrats would have it together a lit...

More Freedom Rider Check out my Black Commentator column. My subject is Shoshana Johnson, but despite her problems she has fared better ...