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The Daily Voice launches on Twitter

A new edition of The Daily Voice is now available on Twitter.

Black Music Month: What's in a Name?

Pamela D. Reed

Black Music Month, under President Barack Obama, is designated "African American Music Appreciation Month." The two names are worlds apart.

Dr. Pamela D. Reed is a cultural critic, public speaker, and associate professor of African-American literature and English Composition at Virginia State University. Her self-published collection of essays on Barack Obama, Race and American Culture is forthcoming this fall.

A Black Woman Responds to Don Lemon

Pamela D. Reed

Black gay men are a part of us, and, contrary to what Don Lemon suggests in the New York Times, Black women are not the enemy.

Kola Boof On Bin Laden's Death

Kola Boof

I knew Osama Bin Laden to be a monster, a genius, a poet, a racist woman-basher and a very passionate, deeply sensitive confused being.

Kola Boof is an award winning novelist, poet and television writer. Her latest book The Sexy Part of the Bible will be released by Akashic Books in July 2011.

An Open Letter to Chris Brown

Kevin Powell

I really didn't want to write this letter, but my own life experiences, might be of some help in your journey.

Kevin Powell is an activist, writer, and public speaker. He is the author or editor of 10 books, including Open Letters to America (Soft Skull). He is based in Brooklyn, New York.

Donald Trump, on the View, questions Obama's citizenship

Joni L. Reynolds

There is something on Obama's birth certificate the president is trying to hide, Donald Trump told the ladies of "The View" on Wednesday.

Joni L. Reynolds, an African-American mother, writes a blog called Ebony Mom Politics.

The hopes of a nation are in Tucson

Barack Obama

I want to live up to 9-year-old Christina Taylor Green's expectations. I want our democracy to be as good as she imagined it.

Barack Obama is the President of the United States of America.

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