African Americans are less responsible for climate change but suffer more from the health impacts.

Soul food is — and has always been — about sustenance, safety
and love....Soul food is the story of family and friendship

Expanded basic cable has become a Pandora's Box for families. Many parents welcome expanded basic cable into their homes because it opens up a whole universe of family-friendly programming — channels like the Disney Channel, Nickelodeon, the Discovery Channel, Animal Planet and others.
However, to access these educational and family-friendly networks, families are also forced to pay for channels they don't want and may even be detrimental to their sense of values.

As an official in an Oregon-based mortgage company and past board member of the Federal Home Loan…

The loss of the television production studio at Jefferson High Schools is another example of the Portland Public Schools discontinuing something that works at Jefferson to make way for something new because it comes with grant money attached.

Is protecting our children important to us as a nation? On June 12, the Children's Defense Fund released its annual report on gun violence against children, Protect Children Not Guns.

The people who were once considered Black leaders have reached their collective nadir. Ken Blackwell, Ohio's Republican Secretary of State, has written election rules so draconian that anyone who helps another register to vote risks the possibility of jail time.

Congressional Black Caucus Chair Mel Watt raised a howl recently when House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi called for Louisiana Rep. William Jefferson's political scalp.

We're headed in the wrong direction. Americans across lines of race and region, in red states and blue states, moderates, independents, liberals and increasing numbers of conservatives now have come to understand that. In Washington, the Bush administration and the DeLay Congress stagger from scandal to failure — adrift when we need direction.
We have lost a sense of common purpose — a sense of the better angels of our nature. I remember immediately after Sept. 11, when Americans asked what they could do for their country. "Go shopping," the president recommended, as he pushed for another tax cut for the wealthy.

Several years ago, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting produced a documentary series entitled "Violence: An American Tradition." The series described the ways in which this country has historically resolved conflict. One need only read the history books to see that nonviolent diplomacy is not a tradition we can claim as part of our custom.
When we look back on the more than 200-year history of our nation, we find that war has indeed been part of our convention. This heritage is not one that should make us proud to be Americans.