Forget it, Bill. You’re no Oprah
Memo to Bill Clinton: Dear Mr. Ex-President: Don't do it. Please. You know what I'm talking about. News reports say that you have been talking to NBC about hosting your...
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We’re still trying to `get along’
Ten years have passed since police-punching-bag Rodney King poignantly asked during the Los Angeles riots, "Can we all just get along?" Today the answer remains elusive. We're still getting to...
Mapping out ethnic, racial change
In this era of political correctness, it's hard to keep up with all the changes. At a time when it has become chic in some circles to simply stop thinking...
Tough choices: Playing a game of another color
Here's how you play the game: You're black, male, over 18 and struggling to make it out of "The Ghetto." Where will you begin? The military? Professional sports? Glamourwood (the...
Puffing pols busted for hypocrisy
My thanks go out to New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg for clearing away some of the smoke in the marijuana debate. It was not his idea. He was drafted...
Despite recent strides, racial bean-counting still needed
We should not make too little of the continuing upsurge in black and Latino enrollment at the University of California. We should not make too much of it, either. State...
Ozzy Osbourne bites into family’s values
Too bad. A report in British media that President Bush had invited Ozzy Osbourne and family to the White House was bogus. I'm disappointed. For a moment there, I thought...
Time to bring morning-after pill out of the shadows
"If men could get pregnant," the late, famous feminist Florynce Kennedy used to say, "abortion would be a sacrament." I wouldn't go that far but we probably would be seeing...
Mugabe putting Zimbabwe in a difficult place
Harare, the capital city of Zimbabwe, means "place where one does not sleep." That's what a black Harare journalist told me last summer as he drove me around his town....
Slinging a racial slur? Oh, where is thy sting
Sometimes offense is the best defense. That appears to be what some innovative Native American Indian students at the University of Northern Colorado had in mind. When local activists failed...