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Opinion: Democracy Is the New Black

Congratulations from the United States of America to all our freedom loving brothers and sisters in Egypt and Yemen and Jordan and Oman and Tunisia and Libya and Iran and Bahrain and Morocco and Algeria, and maybe someday soon Saudi Arabia, for standing up to your dictatorial overlords and clutching at the guano covered...

Opinion: Don't Confine Black History to February

Audre Lorde said, "If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive." It is this quote that always comes to mind when I think of my life as an American of African decent. I am quite sure that similar words were on the mind of historian Carter G. Woodson when...

Opinion: There Really Is Chemistry Between Us

A fascinating new study just published in Science magazine reveals that a chemical in women's tears decreases men's sexual arousal. Tears, it turns out, are a type of "chemo-signal." The study is interesting in and of itself, but also raises questions about the way we increasingly interact with one another. Here's what...

Opinion: A Call to Drop the Crosshairs

As I learned about the details of the Arizona shooting over the weekend, and that Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was one of the targets on Sarah Palin's political hit list, I tweeted that Palin "should be arrested for inciting a political assassination attempt." I then spent the next several hours defending my position. The idea...

Opinion: Let 'Huckleberry Finn' Stand

You've probably heard the news by now: Mark Twain is getting an extreme makeover. An Auburn University professor, Alan Gribben, has decided to whitewash the 219 instances of the N-word right out of "Huckleberry Finn," and while he's at it, he's going to remove "Injun," too, for good measure. The new and supposedly improved...