Dr. Anthony Asadullah Samad, PhD

Psychology Today, an academic journal that examines emerging thought and literature in the field of psychology, published on its website blog an article earlier this month that demonstrates why we should be ever vigilant about assaults on human dignity of Africans and African Americans that threatens to subjugate the sociological standing in the society. Satoshi…

In literally one day, three events occurred that showed the continuing disingenuousness of the party of “family values,” “personal responsibility,” and country first “patriotism” as three of the highest profile Republicans slipped on their party’s platform. When the Republicans show out, they show out…but it’s always after they’ve questioned someone else’s patriotism, someone else’s motives,…

Just when you thought they were “piling on” President Barack Obama on issues of little or no consequence…namely the birth certificate issue, the reversal of the President’s fortunes continue to show why he won the presidential election of 2008. He’s just flat out smarter than they are and he demonstrated that the past week. One…

Last week, we got to see how the “big boys” play the old childhood neighborhood game of chicken. You know, that old foolish game of dare you’d play with your friends where you’d risk life and limb (usually standing in front of a car, or a train or a firecracker/cherry bomb) to prove no point…

This week was supposed to be a landmark occasion in the evolution of contemporary African American thought. A new release on the life and death of an American success and race tragedy, published by Viking (Penguin Group) and written by author, columnist, scholar Manning Marable, called Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, sought to refine…

We can always count on LAPD to find new ways to abuse black people. If there’s some kind of abusive first with lethal force and LAPD, trust me, a black person’s involved. While this one is probably not a first for the department (shooting a naked man), it’s a first for the “new” “post reform”…

A chilling silence is taking place around the mass shooting tragedy that occurred at an Arizona Congresswoman’s constituent town hall rally in Tucson. Six people died and 14 others were wounded in what appears to be a random shooting by a mentally unstable student. Everyone is searching for motives and looking for answers. Some want…

The Republican Party is about to return from a two year banishment, from political Siberia, back into the political mainstream as it seats its House majority for the 112th Congress. While “change” of the past two years has occurred (no matter what the rhetoricians says), some of the most progressive change in recent congressional history…

The biggest leak of confidential U.S. government papers is being debated in the public, and some are calling it a betrayal of the country’s security position as backroom conversation shows questionable practices of our government. The “WikiLeaks” controversy has raised the question, “Is Government security bigger than freedom of the press, or is freedom of…