With reports confirming that one out of six Americans are covered by health insurance, Democrats in the White House are formulating a plan to reduce healthcare costs and expand the coverage to approximately 46 million uninsured Americans.

The question that is raised for many politicians is how this reform will be paid for, estimated to cost Americans over $1 trillion over the next ten years.  This plan has come under heavy opposition and scrutiny from Republicans and special interest groups.

“We do not see the sort of fundamental changes that would be necessary...

Southfield City Councilman William Lattimore appeared at the U.S. Federal District Court today and is plead not guilty to bribery charges.  His lawyer, Arlene Woods, noted earlier this week that she will usually have her client plead not guilty.

“We stand mute and waive a formal reading,” she said.
Lattimore was charged with one felony count earlier this month — of taking a bribe in August 2007 in return for his official support of a pawn broker/jewelry to set up shop in the city, according to court documents. 

Allegedly, Lattimore wrote a...

Often the image portrayed of Black men in the media as a mass group of people deeply soaked in crime, violence and drugs is nothing short of a deliberate effort to destroy the reputation of all Black men.

It is a well-coordinated effort to hold the myriad potentials of young Black men across this country hostage to the whims and caprices of the money-driven image makers who thrive on making millions by giving us the 50 Cent violence glorifiers and misogynist artists of the world as opposed to the likes of Benjamin Todd Jealous, NAACP president/CEO at age 35, and Ephram Taylor,...

There are certain songs that virtually everyone is familiar with, regardless of age, race, locality, etc. That dawned on me the other day when I heard the Jackson 5’s “I’ll Be There” on the car radio.

I recall quite a while back watching the Blue Pigs (the Detroit Police Dept. band) performing for a group of third graders. The kids all knew “My Girl” by the Temptations and were singing along much of the time. Group lead singer Herb Burrell told me the song had not been taught to them by the
band or the school.

Here are some other...

We all make mistakes, ranging from the trivial to the life altering, from the ones we laugh about to those that cause embarrassment. (I could write a book on mine.)

Entertainers — and in many cases that includes politicians! — do not make any more mistakes than anyone else, but theirs are amplified by intense media scrutiny and glaring spotlights.

This week we are looking at some of the “faux pas” of celebrities.

IN THE AFTERMATH of the passing of Michael Jackson, La Toya
Jackson and Jermaine Jackson have been among the most vocal...