In Philadelphia, a bicentennial for America's first black nationalist

Martin R. Delany is one of the most interesting people you’ve never heard of. He was, over the course of a long life (1812-85), a writer, editor, abolitionist, Harvard medical student, physician, judge, acquaintance of John Brown, and the first African American commissioned a major in the Army. He is also widely considered America’s first black nationalist, the forerunner of Marcus Garvey, Paul ...

'Race war' case: 10 white supremacists arrested

Members of a white supremacist skinhead group called American Front trained with AK-47s, shotguns and explosives at a fortified compound in central Florida, prosecutors say.

Kill the Drug pushers and Pimps!

Renter's Revolt!, Disempower the Feudal Land lord! go back and help your people and stop practicing the drinking and thinking false steeple,,,,dont let the airplane door snag your clothes....But getting a loan before you go requires asking nicely for a small business loan to make peace>

Big Changes in Black America?

Darryl Pinckney Who’s Afraid of Post-Blackness? What It Means to Be Black Now by Touré Kehinde Wiley Studio, Inc. Kehinde Wiley: The Virgin Martyr St. Cecilia , 101.5 x 226.5 inches, 2008; from Kehinde Wiley , a monograph of Wiley’s paintings of contemporary African-Americans in heroic poses, just published by Rizzoli. Two exhibitions of his work are on view in New York City this spring ...

Home by Toni Morrison

Does Toni Morrison's latest novel stand up to her best? Reviewing Toni Morrison's last novel, A Mercy (2008), in the New Yorker, John Updike referred to it as "another instalment of her noble and necessary fictional project of exposing the infamies of slavery and the hardships of being African-American". The nobility and necessity of the enterprise does not quite offset the sense of weariness ...