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ALEXANDRIA, VA — The death of Trayvon Martin is, of course, a devastating event for his family. That a 17-year-old boy returning from a visit to a nearby store for a snack should have his life taken is difficult to understand and accept. On many...

by Hamden Rice This will be a very short diary.  It will not contain any links or any scholarly references.  It is about a very narrow topic, from a very personal, subjective perspective. The topic at hand is what Martin Luther King actually...

During the trial of George Zimmerman for the murder of Trayvon Martin, considerable media coverage surrounded the selection of six women for jury duty. Perhaps, some speculated, an all-woman jury would be more sympathetic to the Martin...

I didn’t particularly respect the opinions of Stephen A. Smith before. Many expected Smith to crawl into a corner and tempter his opinion about VIOLENCE against women after he had been suspended by CNN for voicing a sense of judgment in the Ray Rice...

There’s no question that winding up in the NFL is a career destination that many young Black men look at as preferable. Football, for so many young brothers, is a culture, not just a sport. You need only visit your local high school on a Friday night...