Author: BooMan

On May 17, 1957, exactly three years after the issuance of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, roughly 20,000 people gathered at the Lincoln Memorial to urge the federal government to do more to implement the ruling . Martin...

I guess Fox News is having a debate tonight. Maybe they can discuss why the Confederate Flag still flies over the capital building in South Carolina. Or why all their candidates oppose pretty much everything Dr. King stood for...

Every once in a while I stop and look around and marvel a little bit at how far this country has come on race relations. It’s hard to predict when it will hit me. Last night I was feeling the warm-afterglow of the New York...

I think the whole Americans Elect idea is stupid, but I acknowledge that there is an honest desire to move beyond the gridlock in Washington DC. If the Republican and Democratic parties were a married couple, any sane person...

Jon Huntsman is dropping out of the race and endorsing Mitt Romney. I’m glad he won’t have a chance to run against the man who made him our ambassador to China. On the other hand, it’s kind of sad that the...