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The final push

President Obama worked the phones and House Democratic leaders put on the pressure to secure the final votes for historic health care legislation that could be passed tonight.

Why we can't wait ... for health care reform

Keith Boykin

President Obama is right. The time for talk is over.

Keith Boykin is editor of The Daily Voice, a CNBC contributor and a BET political commentator.

Detroit kids can't read and the school board president can't write

Joni L. Reynolds

Why would Detroit select an illiterate man to be the school board president?

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

What were they thinking in Detroit?

The Field Negro

To put a man who cannot write to lead the Detroit School Board is like making Donald Trump the president of The Hair Club For Men.

Wain Bennett is a practicing attorney in Philadelphia who blogs at The Field Negro.

Texas Board of Education writes Hip-Hop out of history books

Tolu Olorunda

The Texas Board of Education is literally rewriting history.

Tolu Olorunda is a columnist for BlackCommentator.com, and a contributor at TheDailyVoice.com.

Torrance California police stop casts ugly glare on racial profiling

Earl Ofari Hutchinson

When police wrongly stopped a 60-year-old black minister, blacks objected while whites came out to taunt them.

Earl Ofari Hutchinson is an author and political analyst whose radio show, "The Hutchinson Report," can be heard weekly on KTYM Radio and blogtalkradio.com.

Academy Awards Take Two: After 82 years show biz still mostly one color

Rick Blalock

Despite some modest progress, the 2010 Oscars proves again that Hollywood is still overwhelmingly a white-male bastion.

Rick Blalock, a two-time Emmy-winning journalist and author, is a native of Highland Park, Michigan and lives in Georgia.

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Republican 'fear campaign' exposed

The Field Negro

More proof of what the GOP is up to.

Wain Bennett is a practicing attorney in Philadelphia who blogs at The Field Negro.

Mo'Nique talks about her open relationship with husband

Joni L. Reynolds

Even when a celebrity like Mo'Nique is honest about her life, she gets criticized for it.

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

McDonald's love affair with fried chicken and black people

Joni L. Reynolds

Is this new McDonald's commercial really necessary?

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

12 years is enough

Joni L. Reynolds

Evan Bayh should have retired. And we need term limits to make others do the same, argues Joni Reynolds.

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

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Eric Massa's bizarre interview with Glenn Beck

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White sorority wins $100,000 step show award and sparks controversy
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What's he doing wrong now?
Joni L. Reynolds
Why young boys should never be called 'man of the house'

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