Herman Cain’s shtick is a version of race minstrelsy where he performs “authentic negritude” as wish fulfillment for White Conservative fantasies. Like the fountain at Lourdes, Cain in his designated role as black Conservative mascot, absolves the White racial reactionaries of their sins. This is a refined performance that Black Conservatives have perfected over many [...]

As long as Africa’s fates continue to be decided by capricious whims of individual despots, its people will continue to languish under poverty for decades to come. Transparency, accountability and good governance are unlikely to be achieved without well functioning and independent institutions that are able to hold any individual including the leaders accountable for [...]

   [ By: Earl Ofari Hutchinson ] New tell-all aims to disrobe and discredit Clarence Thomas: The hot seat just got hotter for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. His ex-girlfriend, Lillian McEwen claims that Thomas had an insatiable lust for pornography, had kinky tastes when it came to sex and engaged in lots of it while [...]

   Columnist – John SammonHere is a partial list of top GOP contenders for 2012 and a brief bio on each candidate. Please note: Tear this article off and save it, then take it with you as you go to the polling booth next year. Sarah Palin — An Alaskan housewife, nonentity and mountebank who by [...]

The Republican party’s lack of a clear candidate to go up against President Barack Obama in 2012 is glaring. The remarkably weak field of uninspiring and unelectable GOP prospects — want Obama out, but offers no good replacements. For all their bluster about making Barack Obama a one-term president, Republicans are assembling what looks like [...]