According to his publicist, none other than Atlanta rapper Asher Roth was involved in detaining the man who just made a bomb threat on an Atlanta-to-LAX flight. The rapper was on his way to LA for a performance on Carson Daly.

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Somebody posted a link to this letter on my recent post about the racially characterized attacks against blacks by some in the gay community for what CNN exit polls said was a 70% vote in favor of Proposition 8.

The letter is from Kathryn Kolbert, President...

Excuse me? I voted against Proposition 8. I'm among the 30 percent of black Californians that did so. And as much as I can condemn the homophobia and intolerance that drove a portion of the 70 percent of blacks that voted in favor of Proposition 8's ban on gay...

We did it.

We fought. We hoped. We worked. We cried. We panicked. We debated. We held our breath. But after a 21 month campaign and eight years of sorry leadership and squandered opportunity, we did it. It's not hyperbolic to say that we helped shift the course of the...

I want to know: Who is the real John McCain?

This past Sunday, when Colin Powell appeared on

Whatever happened to "real" debates? Back then, raw vernacular delivered rugged discourse. It was a battle. Not like the stuff on TV today. Everybody sounds the same now. Where's the innovation? It's all too marketed, too many of the same damn talking points, too much business in the art of...

I have a habit that's bringing me down. Immediately after the Biden-Palin debate, as I did after the Obama-McCain, I turned on Fox News. I like to get their 'Fair and Balanced' take on things -- and I'm rarely disappointed. As interesting as Rachel Maddow would have been...

Barack Obama and John McCain squared off tonight for the first presidential debate. All through the night my Facebook page was blowing up with congratulatory posts and chest-pounding status updates. But among the self-congratulatory excitement was a palpable sigh at the heavy reality that is settling in. The question now...

Apple has been having its way with Microsoft for a while now, but the one-sided televised fight for tastemaker supremacy has just gotten interesting. Microsoft, after taking it lying down for what seemed like an eternity, hired hotshot ad shop Crispin Porter & Bogusky (think Volkswagen,...

Earlier this year, I traveled to Israel. Before that trip, I'd only seen the place through the distorted prism of harrowing news stories and the cruel "normalcy" of the ongoing conflict. I wrote about it here, relaying how much impact the trip had on my understanding of the difficult...

Presidential nominee Barack Obama might have declared Sarah Palin's daughter a non-issue for his campaign staff, but he doesn't work for the media (nor the Daily Kos). With all the hoopla surrounding the VP hopeful's daughter's out-of-wedlock pregnancy, one delicate piece of hypocrisy seems to have blown by...

As the news swirls around New Orleans' seemingly near miss under the surge of Hurricane Gustav, let's not forget the Katrina legacy.

The non-partisan group Levees.org recently released this video to address the stubborn myths that still remain three years after Katrina. Clearly, without a proper grasp of the...

Sometimes there is an interview, an interviewee, and an interviewer that brings it all so tightly into focus. This is one of those moments. Bill Moyers -- who I've celebrated on this site before -- caught up with Boston University Professor of International Relations Andrew J. Bacevich,...

No matter how strong their resume on race discussions was, there was no way CNN was going to broadcast a show called Black in America without causing a stir. And according to the network, they received more than 1000 bursts of feedback before the show had its final weekend...

Note: I wrote this post back on April 1 of this year. Initially, after thinking that the Jeremiah Wright situation would resolve itself (finally), I shelved it. I felt a harsh rebuff of Wright's unfair critics wasn't worth stirring the pot for. But after listening to Bill Moyers' recent...

I would like all the Huffington Post's black readers (please tell me you're out there, right?) to skip this post — this will seem like boring inside baseball to you. I would also like all open-minded non-blacks to not bother with this rant — as I understand that you feel...

Here we go. Again.

Barack Obama is now 'lucky' to be a black man in politics? That's so convenient, it almost leaves me speechless. What former vice-presidential-candidate bigmouth Geraldine Ferarro inferred about Senator Obama — that he is where he is due to the color of his skin —...

Somebody shared an insightful parable during my just completed nine-day trip to Israel. To paraphrase, it's something like 'Come to Israel for a week and you think you can write a book. Stay for a year and you can barely write a newspaper article'. Replace newspaper with blog and it's...

1) The difference between the two Democratic candidates on the issues is razor-thin. There should be a candidate to define the largely absent progressive agenda. If Nader gets this constituency's backing, then he should be in the race.

2) Nader didn't cause Gore to lose Florida — the Supreme Court...

You can't ignore it this time. Through the grainy lens of an undercover camera, the world can see the true origins of that burger, steak or Nike shoe. And try as we may to conveniently isolate this incident as the acts of a few rogue plant workers, this is...