By now, everyone knows the story of how a teenager in a South Carolina classroom was pulled out of a chair onto the floor by…

  Former Harlem Globetrotter veteran Kevin “Special K” Daley has moved on from the famed basketball squad after a decade, but he hasn’t stopped inspiring people.…

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  These days the “Twitterverse” is inescapable and who can believe that just a decade ago the term “tweet” was still associated with birds. But…

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  This week, an American ritual will repeat itself. Something that within the past century has morphed into a rite of passage for armies of…

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The “what’s wrong with Black males” chorus has been one long sung by the national media. Lengthy, well-reported articles in the Washington Post, The New…

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Recently, I started thinking of pragmatic ways to bridge the gaps of opportunity for Black males. Seeing that this is a free-market-based economy, with everything…

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President Barack Obama’s (pictured center) new “My Brother’s Keeper” initiative, aimed at addressing employment and education challenges for young men of color, has been lauded…

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For iPhone users: Yesterday at the White House I met a 19-year-old young man named James Adams who has a commute unfamiliar to most high…

On the night of February 26, 2012, 17-year old Trayvon Martin, a hoodie-wearing high school junior, was walking through a neighborhood in Sanford, Florida when…

Black history can’t be made unless there are black men who educated and alive to make it. As Black males fall further and further behind…

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A new study about skin bias shows that people remember intelligent Black males as having had lighter skin. RELATED: UPDATED: See Doctor Explain Why Racism…

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Half of all Black males in the United States have been behind bars by age 23, according to a new study published by academic journal…