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DeKalb: The cost of a democracy is priceless

DeKalb: What should be on the agenda, The Same Game Plan, What has changed?  Dear Residents of DeKalb and Citizens…
Facts Still Matter

President Donald Trump shared the below message via Twitter during his first full week in office: “I will be asking…
Councilman Michael Julian Bond to host ‘The Legacy Continues’

Descendants of leaders in the civil rights movement   ATLANTA – Many people are aware how hard it is for…
Jagged Edge’s Kyle Norman’s wife cut off from family for taking back abusive husband

Former Jagged Edge singer Kyle Norman and his wife Marrika appeared on the Steve Harvey Show to discuss the violent…
COMMENTARY: Why ESPN’s Jemele Hill got pummeled after Michigan State’s loss to Alabama

For many years, this writer and the rest of Buckeye Nation could only sit and stew in silence whenever the…
Georgia Police Explain Why They Ignored 911 Call About White Baby With Black Family

Georgia officers did not answer a 911 call regarding a White infant spotted with a Black family after finding it…
‘RHOA’s’ Kenya Moore’s boyfriend Eugene Casciaro has criminal history

“Real Housewives of Atlanta” star Kenya Moore can’t seem to get her love life together. Either they are fake or…
George Zimmerman selling Confederate Flag paintings at ‘Muslim-free’ gun store

Really, George? Georga Zimmerman, the man who ambushed and fatally shot Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Fla. in 2012, is now…
Rachel Dolezal says Black identity is not a costume

In mid-June when Rachel Dolezal was asked on camera, “Are you African-American?” she was left speechless, hesitant and caught off…
Artist faces backlash over Mike Brown exhibit showcasing replica of teen’s dead body

New Orleans artist Ti-Rock Moore has come under fire for her Chicago art exhibit that depicts a mannequin as Mike Brown’s lifeless…
Petition wants Outkast carving on Stone Mountain to replace Confederate heroes

In a campaign drive that would be harder to complete than spelling Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik, a petition is gaining momentum to carve the likeness…
Criminal justice reform movement emerging in America

While social change for some may appear to be inevitable, it does not happen by osmosis, and it does not…
Do men cheat more than women, or are women just better at it?

Cheating is a terrible, terrible thing. And yet and many of us have had a penchant for doing it. Some…
Top 10 Reasons Why Women Cheat

Numerous relationship studies have concluded that a woman is more likely to cheat than a man. And that woman is…
What are we going to do with the N-Word?

Conversations about the N-word can be tiresome. Should we say it? Can White people say it? Will it always have hurtful…
Don Lemon defends N-Word singing Oklahoma Frat Mom

CNN anchor Don Lemon, who made a Columbia Journalism Review list of “worst journalism of 2014,” has done it again.…