Tipsters, confiscated files, espionage, detainment, corruption: sounds like an action-packed, federal government-based movie, right? Well, definitely not a movie.  Kenneth Ford, Jr., a former National Security agent under the Bush Administration was supposedly set up in a bogus operation orchestrated by the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI). […]

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I have never shot a gun in my life.  Never.  Ok, a water gun when I was a kid, but never picked up a 9mm or glock or a shotgun or even a bb gun.  It is like crack to me.  Don’t ever want to try it.  Not interested in experiencing what it feels like […]

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I have never shot a gun in my life.  Never.  Ok, a water gun when I was a kid, but never picked up a 9mm or glock or a shotgun or even a bb gun.  It is like crack to me.  Don’t ever want to try it.  Not interested in experiencing what it feels like […]

When people think about our President, Barack Obama, they think about a black president. The think we forget about Obama is that he is also white too. I don’t look at Obama as our first black president. I look at him as our first multiracial president. I think Obama is the symbol for a truce […]

When people think about our President, Barack Obama, they think about a black president. The think we forget about Obama is that he is also white too. I don’t look at Obama as our first black president. I look at him as our first multiracial president. I think Obama is the symbol for a truce […]

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An Indian police officer may lose his job for the beating of Brandon Johnson, a 15 year old boy police beat down in Indianapolis after they had already arrested and subdued him. Johnson claims he was beaten because of his race when he and his younger brother were arrested on May 16. Johnson was with […]

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A gay couple who were jailed in Malawi have been pardoned by President Bingu wa Mutharika. Steven Monjeza, 26, and Tiwonge Chimbalanga, 20, were given 14-year jail terms after being convicted of gross indecency and unnatural acts.     Sadly, homosexuality is illegal in at least 37 countries in Africa, including Malawi. Aid donors and […]

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Hip hip hooray!!! It seems that progress is coming to our gay & lesbian brothers and sisters. The House voted Thursday night to repeal ‘don’t ask, don’t tell,’ the controversial Clinton-era policy barring openly gay men and lesbians from serving in the military. Super dope achievement, the passage of this bill gives hope that change […]

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In a country where freedom and equality reign supreme, why is an entire population of people still fighting for basic civil liberties? We are fooling ourselves if we think that withholding rights from the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered community isn’t in direct contradiction with the founding principals of America.  No matter how you look […]

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President Barack Obama couldn’t hold back the tears as he attended the funeral of the woman he called the ‘Godmother’ of the American civil rights movement. The Prez was weeping openly as he watched the service for Dorothy Height in Washington. The President delivered the eulogy for Dr Height, whose activism stretched for more than […]

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President Obama eulogized civil rights pioneer Dorothy Height this morning.  He went on to say that she was a force for both equality as well as justice and that she deserved to be mentioned in the same breath as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and W.E.B Dubois.  President Obama also stated that Ms. Height deserved […]

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I still believe we should be afraid of April 19th because after watching “The McVeigh Tapes” covered on MSNBC there is reason to believe that another Tim McVeigh is out there. It’s scary to believe that 15 years after the Oklahoma City bombings the same rhetoric and the same ideology is still preached and practiced. […]