Dr. Anthony Asadullah Samad, PhD

The breach of security that occurred at the White House’s State Dinner last week is a troubling engagement. Largely because it is seen as a reality show prank, at least at the start, but the fulfillment of a stark reality of how conspiracies are born – if history is our teacher. The fact that it…

If you want to hear some of the most asinine responses to health care you ever want to hear (besides in Congress), ask a black man when was the last time he’s been to the doctor. “Never” is a common response for many men in their 40s and 50s. Black male nutrition provides responses just…

Since President Barack Obama achieved what most Blacks (if not all Blacks) thought was impossible, this call for “Black unity” has been an overarching theme of everything the African American community (multiple and singular) desires to achieve in the 21st Century. People who have never agreed on the same thing, at the same time, EVER,…

President Barack Obama is the most transformative figure in the world today. And it won him the world’s most coveted prize, at least-in the modern world’s eyes, the distinguished Noble Peace Prize. The prize was established by businessman, Alfred Nobel, in 1895, for a person or persons or organizations “who shall have done the most…

Very few of us were surprised to read a recent Los Angeles Times article in how Los Angeles City Councilman Bernard Parks put the FBI on County Supervisor, Mark Ridley-Thomas, the person that defeated (and demoralized) him the same night America elected its first black President. Ridley-Thomas’ landslide was bigger than Obama’s. Some say it…

Now I’m gonna say, right out the box, this might not be a column you want your children to read—or maybe you will. I know my publishers usually don’t like profanity laced commentary, and Lord knows black people have had a reason to cuss lately, but I’ve always been one to push my First Amendment…

In a week that saw an unjustified protest against the President of the United States addressing school children, and a congressman’s vulgar breech of protocol in a joint session of Congress on health care reform, we were offered a sharp view of the realities of creating an ideological divide in this nation. Such a divide…

One of the significant influences of my adult life passed away last week, and this column is dedicated to him – not just because of the impact he had on me, but due to the impact he had on everybody. John Holoman was the publisher of the Herald Dispatch, a national paper known for its…

The City of Los Angeles made a big announcement that the biggest gang in the city, “the Code Blue” gang on the city payroll, the Los Angeles Police Department is being paroled from its eight year federal consent decree oversight. At least, partially anyway. Guess that means LAPD is still on probation with the feds…