Issue: 385

Confiding in the People’s Struggle Keeping it Real By Larry Pinkney BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board The greedy elite have for centuries plundered the resources of Mother Earth for the benefit of the few – at the expense of the many. The 21st century demands a seismic, uncompromising mental and physical change away from this endless pimping…

It was another right-on-time moment that Ben Jealous exercised at the NAACP Convention in calling out the Tea Party for coddling elements of racism within their midst. The Convention went on to passed a resolution to this effect, calling on the leadership of the party to repudiate these elements, but it will not become official…

Boston’s Gospelfest this year featured Rev. Donnie McClurkin, the poster boy for African American ex-gay ministries, who spews anti-gay religion-based vitriol at every public event he can get as part of his outreach ministries to gay youths. But at this event, McClurkin had to refrain from his usual homophobic diatribes. And it was not because…

Zapiro is always keen that his cartoons are published as widely as possible. There are many circumstances where the use of Zapiro cartoons can help you get your message across or increase the sales of your publication. For example: syndication for regular use in a newspaper or magazine on websites and other promotional materials in…

When workers at a Latham, N.Y., Holiday Inn Express wanted to organize a union, they mistakenly thought the law would protect their right to do so. They were mistaken. When workers in a Dominican garment shop wanted to organize a union and protect their new, higher pay and standard of living, they found that their…

Remembering a Chicago Basketball Legend Worrill’s World By Dr. Conrad W. Worrill, PhD BlackCommentator.com Columnist With all of the talk of basketball free agency and the controversy surrounding this issue as it relates to Le Braun James and his fellow basketball greats deciding their own fate in the game, my memory took me back to…

Tea Party Chairman, Mark Williams, was kicked out of his post over the weekend, after he posted a racist blog in response to calling on the Tea Party to purge its ranks of racists. Without going into what Williams said, understand he broke the number one rule of organizations where racists are harbored, “Thou Shalt…