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A Woman’s Place: In Peace and Politics

On Saturday, March 3, 2012 at AFSC Georgia Peace Center, surrounded by historic photographs documenting demonstrations and protest for social change, four women will discuss the roles they have played in politics and in building movements for peace.

Ask Ed & Sugar Rep Gabrielle Giffords Shooting

The right wing wants America back by any means necessary. Ed & Sugar discuss whether the assassination attempt on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords is the answer.

Jeff Chang Brian Komar On Why Progressives Need Cultural Strategy

Jeff Chang and Brian Komar of the Center For American Progress teamed up for this new piece in The American Prospect, “Culture Before Politics”, making the case that progressives need to build the infrastructure to support cultural strategy and cultural organizing.

Ask Ed & Sugar: Got A Negro Republicans Play Racial Roulette

Got a Negro? Blackness has now become the new mainstream accessory; kinda like a trendy hand bag that loses it luster after a few nights on the town. Picking Steele as GOP Chairman clearly shows the Republican Party has been hitting the political crack pipe worst than Chris Rock in the movie New Jack City.

Ask Ed & Sugar: Obama Backlash Employers Shun Inauguration

Chances are your company is figuring out how to better it’s image and build capital for the executives. They could care less about you and your Black president. Plus, negroes aren’t popular until they can pimp us for some change…and I don’t mean the Obama kind…

Ask Ed & Sugar: Hennessy Pimps Obama Bottle

There is a reason there is a liquor store on almost every corner where black folks congregate. Furious Styles, Laurence Fishburne’s character in Boyz NThe Hood, said it best: “They want us to kill ourselves.” In his groovy yet illuminating song “The Bottle,” noted poet and vocalist Gil Scott Heron details the seduction of drugs better than my blog response ever could…

Ask Ed & Sugar: Sen Clinton Friend Or Foe

I know they say keep your friends close and your enemies closer and that’s what some people on the radio have been saying about Obama picking Hillary for Secretary of State. How do you guys feel about this? Do you think Obama is making a mistake?

-Rachel, Jamestown, VA

Obama Drama: When Racial Identity Goes Wrong

Obama is not as racially obscure as Justice Clarence Thomas or as radical as the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan. But, he occupies a curious public space where his “Blackness” is palatable across race and class fault lines.

Ask Ed & Sugar:Black Leaders Who Pimp Sistas

Pimps don’t always congregate on corners. They often reside in pulpits, NAACP Conferences, corporate board rooms, and university classrooms. Being a leader comes with perks, and sadly, some men of power and influence feel entitled to pimp the trust and adoration of women to their sleazy self interest.

Ask Ed & Sugar: John Edwards’ Adultery

What is hard to fathom, personally, is why in this era of relentless media inquest, do men like Detroit Mayor Kwame M. Kilpatrick, President Bill Clinton, Jesse Jackson, and others keep getting caught with their pants down?

Ask Ed & Sugar: Jealous Jesse Jackson

I wrote a poem (circa 2000) called ‘F— Jesse’ in response to his comments about the movie ‘Barbershop’. The way I remember it he took a joke from the movie completely out of context. So I called his ass out in the great city of East Lansing (Ed and BPS produced one hell of an event) and my sentiments for him have not changed. Mr. Keep Hope Alive suffers from the sense of entitlement plaguing our civil rights leaders.