On November 29th, when Commissioner Kelly surfaced to guest lecture at Columbia’s SIPA – School of International & Public Affairs, it was my privilege to serve him his certificate and inform him he’d won the 2011 Bull Connor Award.

There’s a smugness behind the altruistic approach these conservatives maintain. They really seem to believe that, “if we just don’t talk about race, it won’t be a problem.”

This week in “Either It’s Racist or I’m Too Sensitive”, we vote on why the media cut out a young boy’s hope to have a gun.

The Health Care debate sparked the most recent round of ‘keeping my rights’ talk. The false notion of rights being taken if you favor supporting neglected communities is the Tea Party’s drum beat. When the narrative takes grip of impressionable …

This historic step forward that other states should adopt, if we hope to see transformative changes in the next generation.

For some, no matter how much a Black American accomplishes, they should never be allowed a five-fifths status; distorting events and playing on White America’s fear that they will lose their power if others are allowed to be equal.

Rihanna’s latest creates a teachable moment but critics ask, “why can’t raped women behave properly?”

Great comedians are armed with a novelist’s eye, a philosopher’s mind and an activist’s voice.