Rep. Parren Mitchell. Dead at 85

Rep. Mitchell was a founding member of the Congressional Black Caucus. He represented Baltimore and was elected in 1970. He had been living in a nursing home since suffering a series of strokes several years earlier and died of complications from pneumonia, The (Baltimore) Sun reported.
His brother Clarence Mitchell Jr. helped shepherd the [...]

Isiah Washington’s "Public Service Announcements" Begin to Run

“Grey’s Anatomy” star Isaiah Washington, making amends for his use of an anti-gay slur, cautions in a public service announcement that “words have power” to hurt or heal.
“Washington’s filmed message, which was to begin airing Thursday night during reruns of his ABC show, stemmed from a January meeting with officials from the Gay, Lesbian & [...]

Ethnic Plastic Surgery

Cultura is one of the first centers in the country to focus on the burgeoning field known as “ethnic plastic surgery.”
Two-thirds of the center’s patients are nonwhite, many of them black women who in increasing numbers are seeking such procedures as nose jobs and laser hair removal that until recently were largely the province of [...]

Wall Street Journal: American Men Making Less Than Their Fathers

“American men in their 30s today are worse off than their fathers’ generation, a reversal from just a decade ago, when sons generally were better off than their fathers, a new study finds.
The study, the first in a series on economic mobility undertaken by several prominent think tanks, also says the typical American family’s income [...]