Can any of y’all explain it to me?

One of most courageous African Americans in the history of the U.S. military was Colonel Charles Young.

Less than a week ago a family lost their husband, father and son … Brian Cardall … because a Hurricane police officer was too trigger-happy with his taser gun. The Cardall family released the following 911 recordings on the death that occurred last Tuesday.

I ask all villagers to call on DA Chisolm to do everything in his power to prevent an execution.

There have been 20 taser-related deaths in America over the first 20 weeks of the calendar year. Perhaps it is time for congressional hearings on taser torture in America?

Troy Davis’ appeal was rejected by the federal appeals court in Atlanta yesterday. In the 2 to 1 opinion, the court ruled that Troy was unable to establish by clear and convincing evidence that a new jury would not find him guilty.

An 11-year-old Massachusetts boy, Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover, hung himself earlier this week after enduring bullying at school, including daily taunts of being gay, despite his mother’s weekly pleas to the school to address the problem.

The Obama Effect is what we will call the coming deluge of African American candidates that will run AND WIN political races for governors and senators and future presidents.

The African American members of congress never fully embraced Barack Obama during his campaign. Will they overcome that error in judgement and become relevant in 2009 politics?