In a recent encounter between Fox’s Bill O’Reilly and Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart, the two men discussed “white privilege.”
With all the pos-telection buzz about historic firsts and trailblazing black Republicans crashing Congress, you’d think this was the first time conservatives of color would be stepping foot on the floor of the House of Representatives.

Now that the political pundits, analysts and campaign consultants have had their say, I thought it was time to offer a perspective on the debacle suffered by the Democrats during the recent mid-term elections. Let’s get right to it. In the face of a calculated and relentless assault by Republicans on Barack Obama, a President with a dismal approval rating, Democratic candidates panicked and frantically ran away from the President and his/their “record” over the past six years.

The following is a transcript of a TED talk by Ethan Nadelmann, founder and executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance.

The problems in Ferguson, Missouri, will continue long after the grand jury’s decision is announced.

The nomination of Loretta Lynch as the next attorney general of the United States perhaps displays as much presidential deftness as it does defiance. Clearly, in the wake of last week’s election, President Barack Obama wants to show some.

The American electorate have been angry with the political directorate in Congress and the White House.

The Republican Party’s takeover of the U.S. Senate in Tuesday’s midterm election is the tip of rather sizeable iceberg that saw the GOP win governorships in the blue states of Illinois, Maryland and Massachusetts.
The Obama era represents a peak in black voters’ identification with the Democratic Party, which will have to fight to retain their loyalty.
Jeff Chang, author of Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation, has taken on some massive subjects in his latest book: race, and the way America sees itself.

Dr. Peter Phillips, the Minister of Finance, was the keynote speaker at Caribbean International Network’s annual lecture…
Over many years of doing anti-racist work among whites I have learned that the role of slavery in the formation of the economics, politics and culture of the United States…