In our third installment of our Pop and Politics series, we interview Florida Tea Party candidate Colonel Allen West about his views on race, anger among voters, and why he believes he can win in Congressional District 22 in Florida. Pop and Politics with Farai Chideya is a series of three radio specials about the […]

Nobody ever said Ann Coulter was going to play nice during her time at Homocon, a summet held by the gay conservative group GOProud over the weekend, not even the organizers who insisted that she be there. Perhaps it came as little surprise to them, then, when the conservative pundit stood before the group of […]

Meet Melissa Petro — the teacher who gives a new twist to “sex ed.”

Sorry kids, President Obama wants to extend the school year by a month.

According to the New Post, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad met with Nation Of Islam minister, Louis Farrakhan and members of the New Black Panther Party, according to the New York Post. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s six nights in New York featured a secret sit-down with militant minister Louis Farrakhan, heckling in a hotel bar, and a […]

Mocked for years on “Saturday Night Live” as a clueless blind man, the governor of New York appeared on the show’s season premiere to dish right back. Gov. David Paterson came on the show’s “Weekend Update” segment early Sunday and interrupted cast member Fred Armisen, who was in character as the governor. Armisen plays Paterson […]

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He couldn’t go to medical school in New York, so James McCune Smith went to Scotland for his degree and returned home to treat the city’s poor.

It’s a story as old as time: adultery, anguish and atonement. Last Tuesday, when news broke of U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.’s extramarital relationship with a blond nightclub hostess — kryptonite in the world of the African-American woman — his wife, Ald. Sandi Jackson, inserted a little laughter into the public disclosure.

Albert Haynesworth said Saturday his $100 million contract doesn’t make him a slave to the Washington Washington Football Team. In an interview with 106.7 The Fan, the two-time All-Pro defensive tackle said the big paychecks don’t mean he can’t push back when the team asks him to play a different position. Haynesworth, who rarely speaks […]

CNN anchor Don Lemon admitted over the weekend that he was a victim of a pedophile as a child. Lemon made the startling announcement on live TV while discussing the scandal involving Georgia Bishop Eddie Long, who is accused of sexually abusing male teenage members of his church. “I have never admitted this on television,” […]