Featured Website: 1865CO.com

I wanted to put you all onto a great, black-owned retailer of fine African-American-themed gifts. 1865co.com. 1865Co carries unique gifts for African Americans, many of which are designed in the spirit of the year of our Emancipation. When my son was born, I bought my wife the “Mother and Child Cameo Pendant.” She loved it [...]

The Bigger, Blacker GOP

“Far away from the speeches of Jesse Jackson, the demands of Al Sharpton and the ranting of Louis Farrakhan, a quiet revolution is taking place in the role African-Americans play in politics. In the very heartland of the nation — in Pennsylvania and Ohio — the Republican Party is getting set to nominate black candidates [...]

Michael Brown Strikes Back

“Michael D. Brown, the embattled former head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, testified before a Senate committee today that he told a top White House official on the day Hurricane Katrina struck that “our worst nightmares” had come true in New Orleans.
In an often tense exchange, Brown told the committee that he wasn’t exactly [...]

Malcolm and Muhammad

“Turning my back on Malcolm,” says Muhammad Ali 40 years after the fact, “was one of the mistakes that I regret most in my life.” To his credit, Ali has come to grips with this tragic misstep, at least partially. His faithful, however, have not. To maintain both Ali and Malcolm X in the same [...]