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The 2004 Urban League?s ?State of Black America? report highlights the increasing and glaring disparities between the health of Black...

Everywhere I go, young people constantly inquire, ?Dr. Jefferson, how have you achieved such significant accomplishments and what advice would...

Hurricane Katrina appears to have signaled hip-hop?s passage from infancy to maturity. Over the years, our elders have castigated us...

For the people of Tanzania, educating our people for a sustainable future has been a lifelong preoccupation. Indeed, access to...

Question: Madame Secretary? We?re pulling up on the 40th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King. And regardless of...

I believe, to the depth of my heart, that there is no job in the State Department that is unimportant....

I read the recent New York Times cover story, ?Plight Deepens for Black Men, Studies Warn? (March 20, 2006), with...

As a youth, I daydreamed about fleeing to Paris, as James Baldwin and Josephine Baker had done, to escape the...

The picture cannot be grimmer. May the Lord help those of us who continue to do business as usual in...