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As a getaway for two Democratic presidents, including the current one, Martha’s Vineyard is often disparaged as an undemocratic haven for wealthy white elites.

  As everyone on Blackplanet knows, the Black Panther Free Breakfast Program was perhaps the most creative, ingenious, daring and visionary of all their initiatives.

STEPHANIE ROBINSON SPEAKS stephanierobinsonspeaks.com Is Black on Black Marriage Dying?  Numbers seldom tell the whole story. They can be used out of context to make things look worse than they are, or to stress one aspect of a much larger and more nuanced picture.  

More than 100,000 Katrina victims from New Orleans flooded Houston after the storm in 2005.

I recently read a very interesting story about how so many black athletes are being hammered by the financial devastation of child support.  Their paychecks are getting zapped to nothing, only to buy Coach purses and hair weaves for the women who’ve had their children.  Perhaps the sex was good enough to justify the misery, […]

BP has accepted some of the blame for the deadly rig disaster that led to the worst oil spill in United States history, according to a new report.

President Barack Obama said Sunday he isn’t worried about a recent poll showing that nearly one-fifth of Americans believe he is a Muslim. “The facts are the facts,” said Obama, who is a Christian. In an interview broadcast on “NBC Nightly News,” the president blamed the confusion over his religious beliefs on “a network of […]

Conservative commentator Glenn Beck says he shouldn’t have called President Obama a ‘racist.’