Dr. Boyce Watkins and Yvette Carnell discuss the death of Malcolm Shabazz     Click to Watch

    Writing at his blog, Earl Ofari Hutchinson lambastes critics of same-sex marriage who use the Bible to bolster their case, saying that scholars have written volumes debunking the passages because of errors and misinterpretations. The long standing reason for shoving the courts, the federal government and the states into the private relations between two adult consenting men or women is ...

    I happened to be in Nigeria when Professor Chinua Achebe quietly passed away last week at the age of 82 after a brief illness, and I personally witnessed the widespread shock and grief that followed the announcement of his death. And while the general public is slowly coming to terms with the unfortunate news, leading public figures are ...

    On Feb. 19, Warren Hill is slated to be executed in Georgia, despite his lawyer’s argument that he is mentally ill. Eric Jacobson, executive director of the Georgia Council on Developmental Disabilities, writes in theHuffington Post that if Hill is executed, it will be a great miscarriage of justice. The United States Supreme Court should intervene in this case ...

  Women are being targeted. We are falling prey to a silent enemy. An enemy most of us didn’t even know we had. But it has its sights set on us. And in 2010, it was set on me. I was horrified to learn that I had fluid around my heart. I didn’t know exactly what that meant, but after ...

  Perhaps it seems that President Barack Obama is simply honoring the fifty-year anniversary of the death of Medgar Evers — with no greater symbolism implied — by inviting his widow, Myrlie Evers-Williams, to deliver the invocation at his inaugurationfor his second term in office. After all, many people believe that in the age of Obama, the problems of civil rights ...

By Dr. Darron Smith Black Americans have wanted, for many generations, a nation where equality of opportunity was the law of land, a place where dreams could come true regardless of skin color. Jim Jones, known by many of his followers as “father,” created the Jonestown commune—The Peoples Temple—in the Guyanese jungles of South America in the 1970’s with this ...

People across the world are mourning the death of Sylvia Woods, the founder of the staple soul food restaurant named Sylvia’s, located in Harlem, New York. Her granddaughter confirmed she died today after battling Alzheimer’s disease for the past two years. Sylvia’s is revered as one of the most popular “must-eat” restaurants in New York. It has been the mecca ...

Yvette Wilson, the star of ‘Moesha’ and its spin-off, ‘The Parkers’,  has died from cervical cancer and complications from kidney disease. The comedian was 48 years old. Leading up to her death, her friend and former co-star Shar Jackson reached out to her twitter followers to pray for her friend. Shar consequently broke the news of her friend’s death, also ...

According to the National Patient Safety Foundation, about 40 percent of all mistakes that doctors make are misdiagnoses. The top 5 misdiagnosed diseases in African Americans are: Lupus – Lupus is two to three times more common among African Americans, Hispanics, Native Americans and Asians, it is a disparity that remains unexplained. Specifically, lupus is three times more common in ...