Does this look like Barack Obama to you? A German manufacturer thinks so.

Does this look like Barack Obama? A Utah Couple thinks so. Or thought so. And they think “he’s so cute and cuddly.” TheSockObama doll, not Barack. Well, maybe Barack; they don’t say. But as of today they have stopped selling their odd lil’ [...]

Clinton Issues Post-Primary Schedule (Yes, Post-Primary Schedule)

May 29, 2008 2:04 PM
ABC News’ Eloise Harper Reports: The press traveling with Sen. Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign received an email Thursday afternoon informing reporters they could sign up for travel through June 6 on the campaign website.
Given the speculation surrounding plausible outcomes from this Saturday’s DNC Meeting and [...]

On August 15th, Robert Downey Jr., Jack Black and Ben Stiller are set to star in Stiller’s latest comedy ‘Tropic Thunder’.

According to reports, Downey Jr. plays a white actor who takes a role originally written for a black actor and dyes his skin to play the role as a black man. His character does all [...]

UPDATE: And now Clinton issues the non-denial denial - Read more

So with the latest polls showing Clinton losing support in both Ohio and Texas, the Clinton campaign has done exactly.what.I.predicted. they would do. They have reached down to the sewer, grabbed a handful of race-tinged slime and are slinging it hoping it will stick anywhere, [...]

If I had seen Kevin Merida’s article in the Onion instead of the Washington Post, I would have thought it was a spot on parody of the panic on display by some black politicos right now.
Which brings us back to the dilemma facing some of Clinton’s high-profile black supporters — those with titles and constituencies [...]

I have great respect for what John Lewis has done for our country. As a very young man, he put his body and soul on the line as a Freedom Rider to make life better for black people; all people really. I was dismayed by his early endorsement of Hillary Clinton, but it looks like [...]

Can you hear that low rustling sound? It’s the sound of elementary school teachers all across the nation rummaging through cluttered supply cabinets looking for their staple pocked cartoon-like cutouts of “Great Black Americans” to put on display for the next 28 days or so.

It’s Black History Month again. Children in classrooms everywhere are [...]

Dumbfounded? So was I when I first saw this. My next clear thought was that the late Walt Disney, a reported Nazi sympathizer, is probably doing a little jig somewhere having a good belly laugh.

Lead paint isn’t the only element that can make our children’s playthings harmful or destructive. Teaching young people that a [...]

Every night, hubby and I listen to the Bible on tape. It’s part of our nightly devotions, which includes singing hymns, praying for our friends and family. (Okay, I don’t like praying for his mother and scorn fairly drips from my prayerful lips when I ask God to “bless her” but other than that…) When [...]

I’ve been working myself into a knot thinking about the latest proliferation of nooses and the recent regurgitation of racial hatred taking place all over America. Racism is a virus, you know, seemingly impossible to cure completely. It lives in the spine of the American soul as a retrovirus, always waiting for the next [...]

Contributor Carole McDonnell’s short stories and essays appear online and in print, in speculative fiction, ethnic, and Christian publications. She lives in New York with her husband, two sons, and their pets. Wind Follower, published by Juno Books, is Carole’s first novel. Her voice adds plenty to our discussion, so I welcome Carole and her [...]

According to American Lawyer magazine, the latest assault on natural black beauty by the fashion industry took place in the boardroom of prestigious Manhattan law firm, Cleary Gottlieb:
… A recent slide show by an unidentified Glamour editor on the “Dos and Don’ts of Corporate Fashion” at a New York law firm shed some light on [...]

Contributor Carole McDonnell’s short stories and essays appear online and in print, in speculative fiction, ethnic, and Christian publications. She lives in New York with her husband, two sons, and their pets. Wind Follower, published by Juno Books, is Carole’s first novel. Her voice adds plenty to our discussion, so I welcome Carole and her [...]

I was pleased to read that my ‘alma mater’ ABC has refocused its ‘Cavemen’ sitcom toward ‘outsider’ humor rather than racial humor. If the writing is sharp and funny, the series may have a shot in this new context. There is nothing I like more than ‘fish out of water’ comedy; as long as it’s [...]

Check out the TMZ.com video interviews
Is that rumbling I hear the sound of Al Sharpton’s approaching footsteps? According to interviews posted on TMZ.com, Lindsay Lohan pulled the ‘race card’ after allegedly playing race car driver on Tuesday. According to the interviews, Lohan hopped into the driver’s seat of a car belonging to friends of her [...]