President Obama today spoke to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce (you know, those folks who are skirting the law regarding international donations to fund elections and...
Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated 43 years ago today in Memphis where he was working in support of labor rights for sanitation workers. King, an African-American...
Dear Herman Cain,  I’m writing this letter to you because you need to be told off, and I’m the one to do it. You see,...
Wanda Sykes, an African-American, a comedian, a married lesbian with twins, and a proud recipient of a GLAAD 2010 award, takes on Chris Rock and Roland...
In the past six months, the “brave new world” of the 21st century has erupted  into massive and immediate political, social, economic, and environmental change, foisting...
Wanda Sykes says that Tracy Morgan “just yelled, ‘Fire,’ in a crowded theater,” and classified Morgan as “just a dumb comic.” Sykes is in an interesting...
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32545640 My thoughts, had he not returned, were, “Just imagine what a Keith Olbermann, CEO of The Keith Olbermann Foundation could accomplish…” (Read: “Olbermann Suspension Over,...
Editor’s note: The following open letter is by The New Civil Rights reader Scott Rose. Senator DeMint indeed is a member of the United States Senate...
Editor’s note: A wonderful reader, Julia Garbowski, contacted me via Twitter to tell me that April is National Poetry Month. She wanted to know how I...
First, let me start by saying how much I love New York Times columnist (and Nobel Prize winner!) Paul Krugman. He’s wonderfully intelligent and is one...
After a very, very, very long and arduous campaign season, today is election day all across America! If you haven’t taken advantage of early-voting, now is...
Harold Ford’s reception tonight at New York City’s LGBT Center, which hosted the Stonewall Democrats’ event at which Ford was invited to speak about his stance...
Even without officially announcing his candidacy for New York’s upcoming Senate race, Harold Ford has received little support and total opposition from the New York LGBTQ...
Yes, Ford failed the bar – he has his J.D. but never passed the bar. His choice, of course, to take it only once. Nothing wrong...
Tonight in Manhattan’s LGBT Community Services Center, the heart of New York City’s gay community, former Tennessee Congressman Harold Ford, Jr. spoke before a raucous crowd...