The Tiger Woods' women count is up to 20. That's the number of women who haven't gone to bed with the world's busiest golfer. Until now, I have managed to stay away from this subject. But in many ways, the reaction to Tiger's fall from grace says more about us as a society than Woods' personal problems.

(NNPA) - Almost every night they go to bed a little hungry. Many, actually don't even possess a bed to sleep in. The blustery winter winds scrape against their barely covered skin as they humbly beg for food, money and shelter. The lucky ones stay with friends or in motels, but many simply call the streets home. Their health is deteriorating, and their chances for survival diminish with each passing cruel day.

(NNPA) - As one of the first to defend President Obama's selection for the Nobel Peace Prize, I also believe that his speech was much more than an adequate expression of the contradictions in which he found himself by being selected.

While activists like Felicia Davis, Kari Fulton, Bennett College student Hershelle Gaffney, and others have been in Copenhagen since the COP15 conference began, members of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies' Commission to Engage African Americans in Climate Change arrived in Copenhagen on Sunday, Dec. 13.

Editor's Note: Upon the 25th year of Rev. Jesse Jackson's first run for president of the United States, we asked him to write his thoughts on the state of Black America at this point in history, focusing on the question, Where Do We Go From Here?

Aside from health-care reform, probably the most divisive issue in Washington today is the $787 billion economic stimulus program. One camp argues that the Recovery Act has done a good job in preventing the country from plunging into a more serious crisis than the one we've got, while another camp says the whole effort has had little effect and was an expensive mistake. We suspect the former conclusion is correct, but would like better evidence...

NNPA) - The home mortgage crisis and subsequent recession have had a devastating effect on many homeowners. According to a report by First American CoreLogic, twenty three percent of U.S. homeowners owe more on their mortgage than the home is worth. In other words, their home value is under water and they have negative equity in their home...

(NNPA) - A week or so ago, I had the privilege of participating in a conversation on NPR about college attendance. Sparked by a conversation in the Chronicle of Higher Education, a group of "experts" were opining that too many people are going to college. Too many? Conservative and racially biased Charles Murray (author of The Bell Curve) thinks that too few high school students have the cognition to successfully navigate college attendance. Marty Nemko says it is a cost-benefit thing. Sandy Baum says that everyone should have opportunity and access. Nobody mentions race, but I think it is the elephant in the room. Too many White folks are opining that too many people go to college, but their kids are in college. So do they really mean that too many Black folks go to college? Are their objections really about reinforcing a class system?

(NNPA) - It was regarded as one of the most historic days in our nation's history. Unprecedented numbers of young people and minorities hit polling stations and cast their ballots in a national election. After an intense, seemingly endless campaign cycle, the populous was engaged and actively participated in our political process in ways previously unheard of. And for the first time a majority – Whites included – attempted to rectify our tumultuous and troubling past by electing the first African- American President of the United States. A little over a year later however, I ask, have things on the ground really changed all that much?

Sammy Sosa, the man who until now has only had to fight steroid rumors, has a completely new look.
And I am startled by what I see...