You have to hand it to them, the promoters of the weekend coup in Honduras are at least consistent. From the beginning, their line has… more »

Yoblogger’s Erricka X and Jazmyne speak out against the current state of black men in entertainment. From the BET Awards to Hurricane Chris Brown, something… more »

The other day I got word that VIBE Magazine is going under.

‘I don’t know about you, but I think these are signs that the end is near.’

Whatever happens in Honduras, the crisis has been tremendously good to Telesur TV. The satellite and cable news channel launched as a sort of Latin American… more »

Honduras is the original “Banana Republic.” The American writer O. Henry coined the term in his early 1900s book of interlinked stories called Cabbages and… more »

So the parade which was once about flaunting a fabulous otherness now is getting assimilationist, trying to reassure the rest of society we are just… more »

Many things can be said about Michael Jackson. But two things are certainly true: 1) he was misunderstood and 2) he was one of the… more »

By Roberto Lovato Today’s FBI arrest of Alex Sanchez, one of the most respected gang intervention leaders in the country, has raised major concerns in… more »

Music must be one of the most powerful forces of nostalgia! Music activates a part of our brains that not only ignites nostalgia, but also… more »

Los dos adolescentes anglosajones que mataron a golpes al inmigrante indocumentado mexicano Luis Ramírez en Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, el 12 de julio de 2008, sólo fueron… more »

California seems to be suffering from an identity crisis. Or at the very least, it’s going through a mid-life crisis of some sort.

According to a Black Press USA, President Obama made a stimulus package of $1.2 Billion to be divided between Summer Job Youth Programs in the… more »

The truth of the matter (of course this is my truth not the universal truth) is that sometimes it can be more detrimental than enriching… more »

Bill Santiago has written a book in Spanglish called, “Pardon my Spanglish: Porque, Because”: http://www.pardonmyspanglish.com with jokes and explanations about how Spanglish is used. This… more »