Breaking News: That’s What I’m Talking About!

TV Land is airing a three-part roundtable series this month starting tonight debating the modern Black experience called “That’s What I’m Talking About!” The Lovable Wayne Brady hosts the show with African-American guests from different fields examine how the black experience is woven into the fabric of America. The show themes are [...]

Why Barack Obama (Or Any Other Black Democrat) Will Never Be President

Two weeks ago on NBC’s Meet the Press, the irrepressibly arrogant “newsman,” Tim Russert, asked Senator Barack Obama to comment on Harry Belafonte’s strong commentary on President Bush. Belafonte recently called Bush the “greatest terrorist in the world.” (Agree??) Writer Peter Daou asks “why would Russert ask Obama (and not anyone else) [...]

Racial Bias and Party Affiliation

“Another study presented at the conference…explored relationships between racial bias and political affiliation by analyzing self-reported beliefs, voting patterns and the results of psychological tests that measure implicit attitudes — subtle stereotypes people hold about various groups.”

“That study found that supporters of President Bush and other conservatives had stronger self-admitted and implicit biases against blacks [...]

Finally: An African-American Smithsonian Museum

Yep. That’s where it’s going to be (knock on wood). The Smithsonian institute has chosen that space to put the National Museum of African-American History and Culture.
The $300 million to $500 million museum is expected to take another decade to build and open.
Director of the museum Lonnie Bunch, who was the president [...]