By Tana Geneva
AlterNet

Shock jock and Fox host Glenn Beck, who has built a career out of stoking the paranoid delusions of the rightwing fringe, managed to outdo himself last week when he accused President Obama of hating White people.

“The President has exposed himself as a guy … over and over and over again … who has a deep-seated hatred for White people … or the White culture…. I don’t know what it is” Beck said on “Fox and Friends.”

Beck’s wildly offensive charge, spurred by the recent...

By Denise Stewart

More than two-thirds of the people serving life without parole in state and federal prisons are minorities, and three-fourths of the juveniles locked away for life are minorities, most of them Black, according to a study released recently by The Sentencing Project, based in Washington, D.C.

The numbers reflect startling disparities in America’s justice and prison systems, the report’s authors said. They hope extensive research presented in “No Exit: The Expanding Use of Life Sentences in America” will help lead to...

Primaries are past and the candidate hopefuls are moving on to the general election. Candidates have presented campaigns promising that they will fight for Detroit’s citizens, and promise to serve with integrity and dignity.

However, when the dust has settled and the general election is over, will candidates uphold their end of the deal? As Rome was not built in a day, it will take Detroit a while before it is back on course. Are winners going to be able to make the right decisions, or will they fall into the same pit of corruption and selfish behavior as some...

Sen. Tupac A. Hunter’s (D-Detroit) “Talk Time With Tupac” coffee hour will be held on Friday, Aug. 7, at Mary’s Grill, 20804 Plymouth Rd., from 10 to 11 a.m. He will be available to discuss the issues he is currently working on in Lansing with local residents. Other dates include Friday, Aug. 14, at McDonald’s, 27125 Cherry Hill Rd., in Inkster, from 10 to 11 a.m., and Friday, Aug. 21, at McDonald’s, 6412 North Telegraph Rd., in Dearborn Heights, from 10 to 11 a.m.

Area residents are invited to attend whichever coffee hour time and location that...

The Detroit region continues to lead the country’s metropolitan areas in unemployment with a rate of 17.1 percent, according to data released today by the U.S. Bureau of Labor and Statistics.

The Detroit-Livonia-Dearborn area reported a rate of 18.5 percent, the Warren-Troy-Farmington Hills area reported a rate of 16.2 percent and Michigan’s overall unemployment rate recently rose to 15.2 percent.

Senate Democrats have been pushing to pass the unemployment modernization legislation that would secure $138.9 million from federal funds to help Michigan’s...