Audition for political idols
Could America's next black leader be on YouTube today? Rev. Paul Scott, a black and very unorthodox Baptist minister from Durham, N.C., has launched an offbeat Internet search to find...
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Democrats neither sizzle nor fizzle at debate
Watching a presidential debate in the video age is a lot like watching a stock car race: Everyone says they're watching in order to learn something, even when they're actually...
The 200th reason to test DNA
In a statistic that is both gratifying and horrifying, an Army veteran from Chicago is the 200th person to be exonerated by DNA evidence, according to the Innocence Project, a...
Rappers’ mantra protects killers
Critics of vulgar, violent, gangster-style rap music make a mistake when they write off rap stars as stupid, immoral and self-destructive. They may be immoral and self-destructive, but they're not...
More killings, more fear
He defied our expectations in the worst ways. We have a lot to be afraid of in this era of global terrorism and high school shootings. But the young man...
Debate over Imus isn’t just about words
And now, as Mick Jagger might say, let's hear a little sympathy for the devil: Don Imus famously lost his national CBS Radio show, and its simulcast on MSNBC, after...
Don Imus’ trail of woe
As she faced the world's television cameras to respond to a gross insult by radio and television showman Don Imus, a member of the Rutgers University women's basketball team spoke...
This column gets ‘so ghetto’
Somebody should have warned Newt Gingrich to stay away from the "ghetto." The word, I mean. If so, the former speaker of the House, who is weighing a presidential bid,...
A ‘net-roots’civil rights revolution
A 14-year-old black girl from tiny Paris, Texas, was sent to a youth prison by a judge for up to 7 years for shoving a hall monitor at her high...
New media, but the same old game
Here's an inviting and cautionary note from an Old Media geezer to the new-school bloggers, Webheads and YouTubers: Welcome. You're a valuable addition to the presidential landscape. Just don't get...