Earl Ofari Hutchinson
Obama's Africa Visit Must Be About More Than Promises
President Obama’s two-day visit to Ghana was history-making only in the sense that he was the first African-American President to visit the continent.
Even the King of Pop Stirs Racial Divide
The first nasty inkling that even the King of Pop can stir the racial divide came with the the Mt. Everest-sized list of postings on blogs, chat rooms, and websites the week after the death of icon Michael Jackson.
The Terrible Plight of Dr. Conrad Murray
Dr. Conrad Murray can’t win.
The Michael Jackson family, through their surrogate the Rev. Jesse Jackson, hints that the doctor may have done something terribly wrong in the death of Jackson.
The Michael Jackson family, through their surrogate the Rev. Jesse Jackson, hints that the doctor may have done something terribly wrong in the death of Jackson.
The Good Rev. Jeremiah Wright and ‘Them Jews’
There were two things wrong with the good Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s grouse that “them Jews are keeping me from Obama.”
Clarence Thomas’s Continuing Payback
You can say what you want about Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.
Plenty has been said, and little of it is flattering.
But you can’t say he’s not a man of his word.
Plenty has been said, and little of it is flattering.
But you can’t say he’s not a man of his word.
President Obama Confronts Holocaust Evil. Now Confront the Slavery Evil
President Obama spoke forcefully, passionately and correctly at the Buchenwald death camp on the evil of the Holocaust.
Obama Might Need to Show ID in More Places Than East...
The only thing wrong with New York Congressman Charles Rangel’s quip that President Obama had better bring his ID to East Harlem is that he limited it to East Harlem.
Rapper Murder Reinforces Thug Image of Black Males
A few years back, media outlets took shocking note of a deadly and disturbing phenomenon.
A lot of rap artists were suddenly turning up dead.
A lot of rap artists were suddenly turning up dead.
Banks Bomb on Stress Tests for Minority Lending
A buoyant Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has reassured the public that the big 19 — that’s the19 giant banks and financial houses that the fate of Western capitalism rests on, to hear Geithner tell it, — have passed the Treasury imposed stress test with, if not flying colors, at least steady drip colors.
Another Cruel and Unusual Punishment for Teens
Four years ago the U.S. Supreme Court took a big step toward righting a galling wrong.
It joined nearly every other nation on the globe and banned teen executions. Now it should take the next big step and dump all laws that let states lock up juvenile offenders for the rest of their lives. And there are lots of them.
It joined nearly every other nation on the globe and banned teen executions. Now it should take the next big step and dump all laws that let states lock up juvenile offenders for the rest of their lives. And there are lots of them.
