Quote of the Day: Lama Yeshe

“Every experience we have in our lives manifests from our mind. Because you interpret your life and your world through your mental attitude, it is important to have the right motivation. Wrong motivation brings pain, disappointment, and extremes in life. Think in this way, “During the rest of my life, it is my responsibility, to [...]

Don Imus: "The Great Emancipator"

Screw Abe Lincoln, Don Imus has done more for black people than Abe Lincoln, Jesse, Al and Harold Ford, Jr. combined. Nothing is more prophetic than watching a people take control of their own destiny. Finally, something has galvanized black Americans to take back their culture from the minstrels (i.e., rappers) that poison the [...]

Should Hillary Give It Back?

From Colbert King:Put me in the camp of those who implore Sen. Hillary Clinton to give it back — “it” being the reported $800,000 that’s sitting in her presidential campaign coffers thanks to a fundraiser hosted in her honor March 31 in the Pinecrest, Fla., home of a huge Clinton fan who refers to himself [...]

The Clarence Thomas We Don’t Know

“Ever since Thomas replaced Thurgood Marshall in 1991, many have struggled to reconcile who he is today with where he began — as the Jim Crow-era child of deprivation in Pin Point, a boy whose family insulated its shack with newspapers and shared an outhouse with neighbors.
“Ketanji Brown Jackson, a former clerk for Justice Stephen [...]