By Cornel West From the Covenant With Black America Blog April 25, 2007 We are facing a crisis in the quality of leadership in our country. ...

If you haven't done so or don't have a subscription to Ebony magazine, you may want to head to your nearest bookstore or magazine ra...

My love of sports also includes me participating in them as well. I played Little League baseball as a kid and was on my high school's v...

photos-Crystal Smith hustling for ball, Comets coach Karleen Thompson, Tina Thompson, Michelle Snow and Sheryl Swoopes. One thing about me t...

Rapid scientific progress is being made in terms of mapping human DNA thanks to the Human Genome Project . It has unlocked the secrets of wh...

As I mentioned last month I'm a pageant fanatic. My love for them also extends to an event that was 'must see TV' when I was gro...

Trans Griot Note: photo-Anna Julia Cooper One of the things I'm most cognizant of, whether I'm writing my column, posting on this ...

Blackamewricaweb.com in honor of Black Music Month has been doing an exclusive series of articles on the twenty people who changed Black mus...

One of the things that has really irritated me over the last decade is the emergence of the group of conservative Black sellout megachurch m...

black and white photo of Amanda and Nicole by Brian Lantelme . Today is the seventh anniversary of the brutal killing of Amanda Milan. In th...

Dear Fellow African-Americans, As one of your transgender cousins who shares your ethnic heritage I am moved to ask this question. What the ...

Happy Juneteenth TransGriot readers! So what the heck is Juneteenth? Juneteenth commemorates the end of slavery in the United States. Tex...