Race remains a wedge between quality of life indicators throughout the nation. In the health care debate, the narrative does not change. In four of our states (Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and North Carolina), the number of uninsured Hispanics is over…
Glenn Beck is full of air, lots of it. And, FOX News loves that hot air that feeds their bottom line. But, as anyone who reads Actology, knows my number one pet peeve is hypocrisy over anything else (even a…
Obama, Crowley, and Gates went into a bar together to grab a beer. How novel. Beer is Obama’s code word for, “I mean, ya know, Harvard folks drink it too.” But, 46% of Americans probably won’t care that much, according…
UPDATE, July 23: Actology has learned, thanks to Newsbusters, that the Boston Globe had originally published the full police report on the incident but then suddenly removed it after a brief spot on the Net. They have released no indication as…
The NAACP has a fresh-faced, young new President in Benjamin Jealous, at at time when the organization has been often criticized for not being in tune with younger black activists. Earlier this week, Jealous was interviewed on CNN about…
There is no doubt that there is serious progression that has been made in the gay rights movement in America over the past couple of decades. Even in the midst of the love generation of the 1960’s and the…
This blog often talks a lot about what Obama is not doing for gay rights, and rightly so. But, I thought that the African American Political Pundit blog shined a light on another angle of Obama’s meeting earlier this…
I still believe that Barack Obama has the end goals in mind when it comes to gay rights. I’ve often debated this issue with friends and shared some of that debate here online, fleshing out the lines of gay rights…
A small city in Michigan is trying to pass an ordinance prohibiting discrimination of gays and lesbians in the community. The American Family Association of Michigan is seeking to overturn the prohibition to make it legal to discriminate. That’s the…
As the nation mourns the loss of the King of Pop, an article about Jackson and race sent to me from D.R. Foster over at the Politics Channel here at Ology got me thinking about his influence. Over the weekend…
