Dr. Boyce Watkins and Yvette Carnell discuss President Obama’s speech at Morehouse College       Click to Watch

        Dr. Boyce Watkins and Yvette Carnell ask if black people are asking too much of Obama.     Click to Watch    

    “America is a racist country,” Mychal Denzel Smith wrote earlier this month in an article at The Nation. Smith called on whites to acknowledge racism’s pervasiveness and eliminate it. I won’t debate the accuracy of Smith’s assessment of what America is, and I don’t know whether or not he was using hyperbole to make his point. Either way, however, his ...

William Jackson, M.Ed. Where do we go after the second election of President Barack Obama? I want it to be known, that I’m proud to have Barack Obama as the President of the United States of America. I’m proud of his ability to lead and to be a role model. That being said, Blacks Cannot Wait on President Obama to ...

Dear President Obama, As you know, everything I live for speaks to a post-racial America. I am integrationist in my business practice, my charitable work and my personal life. I want the same for everyone, all the time, and I believe in freedom and justice for all people. I cannot go to sleep at night, unless I know that I ...

By Dr. Darron Smith White Americans took the loss of Mitt Romney exceedingly hard. Mormons, in particular, are mourning the defeat of the first Latter-day Saint GOP candidate to make it as far as Romney did in a national election. But what lessons have we, the American people, actually learned about race since the presidential elections of 2008 and 2012? ...

By Courtney Herring The results are in and Americans have spoken. After a tight race, President Barack Obama has been re-elected for another term. Although the President won the biggest race, history was made on a variety of fronts with House Representatives, Senate seats, and gubernatorial races won by quite a diverse group of people, as well as the passage ...

by Donald Allen United States of America/Minnesota (IBNN/Political Editorial/October 23, 2012)… Before I start – let’s get something straight. In 2012,the best man for the job of the United States president is President Obama. Despite my independent conservative viewpoints, I could never vote for a man that would rather spit in the eye of a Black man, versus seeing him succeed. ...

By Dr. Wilmer J. Leon III President Obama and Governor Romney will square off tonight in Boca Raton, FL for the last of their three debates.  This is going to be a bad night for a good debate.  While President Obama is discussing the tragedy in Benghazi, his administrations agreement to discuss a non-existent nuclear threat in Iran, and how ...

Halfway through the Presidential debate on Wednesday night, I remembered the show where Gary Coleman and Todd Bridges played Arnold and Willis Jackson. Little Arnold was always asking, “What you talking ’bout Willis?” My question, exactly, only this time directed toward Republican nominee Willard Mitt Romney. What in the world was he talking about when he attempted to debate President ...