Jasmyne Cannick

Okay so it’s really starting to heat up. Presidential candidate Senator Hillary Clinton has upstaged her rival Senator Barack Obama, and I am not talking about her Selma appearance. Clinton told a gay rights group, the Human Rights Campaign, in an unannounced speech, that she wants a partnership with gays, if elected president. Clinton also…

Has the Black Leadership Become the New White Moderate? That’s the question on the minds of Black same-gender loving people all over the country, after the deafening silence from America’s Black leaders on the recent controversy surrounding former NBA All-Star player Tim Hardaway’s admonition that he hates gay people. But what if Tim Hardaway would…

COLUMNIST’S NOTE: This commentary is by a plus-sized Black female journalist, regarding Eddie Murphy’s newest film “Norbit.” Am I going to see “Norbit?” Everyday I wake up and look in the mirror, there are several things I notice. The first being that I’m Black, followed by the fact that I’m a woman. It’s usually around…

Brian Couzens, a professed white man admits that he didn’t know February was Black History Month. Yes, you read right. In 2007, there are still non-Blacks who do not know that February is Black History Month. The admission came courtesy of Hartford’s daily paper the Courant which featured an interview regarding Couzens’ reasons for booking…

In the past week, Texas’ Tartleton State University and South Carolina’s Clemson University have come under scrutiny, after photos posted on the Internet showed Martin Luther King Jr. Day parties with white students dressed to mimic stereotypes of Black people. Mimicked stereotypes included Aunt Jemima and gang members. One student is pictured with his entire…

When I became an adult, and by that I mean a responsible, rent and bill paying, five sometimes six days a week hardworking adult, I quickly realized that there were some parts of Los Angeles that I didn’t want to live in. It wasn’t because I was uppity or that I thought that I was…

As a writer, there are sometimes when you have to just drop everything and come home and “get it out” before you forget it or you lose your passion. This is one of those times. I am 29, and contrary to popular belief that all Black women have children, I however do not. It’s not…

Recently, a well-known Black pastor in Los Angeles said that certain activists who had taken a position in support of Tennie Pierce, the Los Angeles Firefighter who has eaten dog food, were “B-list” leaders. The comment got me to thinking that if the people in question were “B-list” leaders, who were the “A-list” leaders in…