Many of us recall last January when the Arab Spring broke out in Egypt, we cheered as Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak was ousted as many talked about how the army was revered. After Mubarak stepped down, most of us here in the US went about our day-to-day lives thinking that Egypt’s darkest days were over.. [...]

A friend of mine Jesse Washington sent me this and I been laughing all day.. Say what you want but a good dose of humor can go a long ways and have deep salient political ramifications. In 2008 we saw Tina Fey step to the plate and take down Vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin.. Fey’s [...]

Every week, a new story emerges of a local community rocked by police violence. These stories typically follow a similar pattern: a young man of color, alleged to be carrying a weapon that is never recovered, gunned down by police officers in a mysterious altercation that, too often, disappears under a mountain of police pressure [...]

In recent days there’s been a lot of blow up about the criticisms levied at President Obama by Princeton Professor Cornel West.. Many have quickly circled the wagon and attacked West claiming his critique was more personal than principled. The end result has been West being dismissed and Obama being praised as if the critiques [...]

With each passing day our Civil Liberties get eroded away as most of us ignore the carnage to focus on whatever distraction is being tossed our way… Yesterday the Supreme Court made an 8-1 decision that upheld the police’s right to bust into your house with no warrant, if they smell weed and prevent you [...]

This is pretty scary.. Under Michigan’s new law, elected officials can be stripped of their powers and a corporate head can be appointed to run the city…This is what happens when you don’t vote as folks in Michigan are finding out..Extremist get into office and run the table -Davey D- Benton Harbor, Mich., is a [...]

To answer matter of fact, I don’t know.  I wasn’t there.  I can only imagine the mounds of hummus and Birkenstock shoes, vegetarian and carnivores standing across from each other with food contests, fruits and rivers of vegetables, and oceans of drinks, sweets, and all you can eat.   I mean, a $37,000 meal must take a [...]

San Francisco-social-networking giant Twitter, which is based in the South of Market Area (SoMa) of San Francisco, was woken up with a rally from various community-based organizations and families riled-up demanding Twitter to comply with their list of demands. Twitter proposed a $22 Million tax break from the city of San Francisco in order for [...]