Days after the church massacre that killed nine African American worshipers at the historic Emmanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston, South Carolina, President Obama finally acknowledged the existence of racism. He is to be commended. It was important that this public acknowledgement come from our nation’s first (and last) black President. The question remains however as to what took him so long. It’s unfortunate that it took the murder of nine innocent and blameless black church

As I ponder the state of the American Negro on the eve of President Obama’s State of the Union address, and the anniversary of the death of civil rights icon Martin Luther King, Jr., I am perplexed and amazed at how television personalities and others, speak of the struggle for racial equality by the African American as something that has already been achieved. They speak of the civil rights movement, and the quest for black liberation in the past tense, as if Dr. King’s drea

Rupert Murdoch, the executive chairman of the News Corporation which owns 21st Century Fox, Fox News, and the Wall Street Journal, recently displayed his supreme ignorance when responding to criticism surrounding the studio’s decision to cast all of the main characters in the movie, Exodus: Gods and Kings, as white. Murdoch, one of the richest and most influential men in the world, recently wrote the following quote in a Twitter message: “Since when are Egyptians not white? A