**UPDATE, April 14, 2011** Luther Campbell has officially announced his bid for Mayor of Miami-Dade County! Earlier this week, Campbell was among several candidates who filed proper paperwork to be placed on the ballot for May 24, 2011. Per his PR reps at TreMedia, here are a few key points he will address during his campaign: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT We will revitalize the small business e...

By: Chris Williams --- Debt has become the other four letter word, as people are realizing the consequences of their actions in unprecedented numbers in today’s society. This issue isn’t just a problematic matter in the United States; this is a worldwide quagmire, which is literally growing by the day. Debt has become disease, and there doesn’t seem to be a cure to stem the tides of ...

By: Dove --- Yesterday (Nov. 3) during his visit to the U.K., Jay-Z visited BBC's Newsbeat with Natalie Jamieson and proclaimed light-heartedly that he wished he had the role of President of the United States. He also expressed empathy for President Obama: "In order to judge someone, you have to judge what they inherit. He inherited the worst economy, war, just a horrible time in American his...

By: Isha “Ice” Cole --- On September 11, 2001 the world witnessed one of the most vicious terrorist attacks ever made on U.S. soil. That day not only changed the lives of Americans, but also Muslims all around the world. Living in a post 9/11 society has been very rough for Muslims in America. Speaking as a Black woman who is Muslim, I never thought I would see the day when it would seem e...

By: Chris Williams --- The recession of 1975 was an interesting time for many Americans in the flailing job market, and people who lived through those perilous unemployment blues are now witnessing history repeating itself. The unemployment rate has been steadily rising like the ocean's tides, and the ship of America’s future is reaching unchartered territory. For anyone who has a job cur...

By: Dove --- Political thriller Fair Game stars the ever-brilliant Naomi Watts as CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson, who was exposed publicly as a spy in 2003 in retaliation for her husband Joseph Wilson's (Sean Penn) New York Times article about the Bush Adminstration's motives behind the invasion of Iraq. The film is adapted from Plame-Wilson's 2007 book Fair Game and co-stars Bruce McGi...

By: Chris Williams --- Throughout the history of the United States, the issue of race has been at times our undoing or our unifying factor in helping bring about the process of change in our society. To this day, the motif of race evokes certain emotions in all of us. It often goes unaddressed due to the stances taken from different sides of the conversation. The lack of comfort can be attribu...

By: Dove --- As a passionate author, poet and longtime community activist, Kevin Powell has a deep understanding of the world around him. Known initially to Americans for his appearance on Season 1 of MTV's The Real World in 1992, Powell flipped reality show fame to the backburner for a writing gig at Vibe Magazine. Over the years, he also contributed to the likes of Newsweek, Rolling Stone,...