This wasn't my fight, this Transatlantic Business Dialogue. You know it as TABD. I call it The Association of Big Daddies or, better yet, a group of insanely wealthy white guys controlling how the r  

"But common things surprise us." ­ Gwendolyn Brooks Today I am black licorice, twisted and shiny. I feel particularly black. When cops keep on killing us, it's akin to stuffing a powder k  

He looked more like he belonged on the block slinging rocks -- 'do rag wrapped tightly around his head, red, white and blue Tommy Hilfiger warm-up suit and spankin' new white Nikes. He was a big br  

I've tried to remain incognegro on the political tip. But all the negative advertising, the onslaught of minute-by-minute campaigning updates, polls, percentage points and the grave significance of   

God knows why kids find the taste of lead paint chips and lead dust appealing. Maybe they wouldn't if the stuff weren't prevalent where they live and play. Earlier this week, folks from CLEARCorps   

Listening to P. Anne Everson-Price, Kathy Wade, Bill Caffie, Eugene Goss, Mike Wade, Steve Schmidt and all the others wail and play the Blues, it was suddenly disconcerting to be handed a clipboard   

VersusFollow for now. You have Kenny G, we have Charlie Parker. You have Bette Midler, we have Chaka Khan. You have George Washington, we have the Rev. Jesse Jackson. You have Dennis Rodman, we  

This isn't supposed to make Laura Gentry out as some kind of hero or martyr. But you have to give it up to a woman who, in this be-all-you-can-be-high-tech-get-it-just-to-have-it world, does the w  

Prelude: Mable Harris, the subject of a springtime CityBeat cover story (issue of March 2-8), died suddenly on Sept. 22. Harris was profiled in these pages because on Dec. 1, 1955 she was a 10th-gr  

The Artist who was and is again Prince once offered the musical command, "Ass up, face down, bitch!" As one of the countless disgruntled, disenfranchised, set aside and cynical nonwatchers of the B  

Q: What did the black woman with the raggedy fingernails and the suspect weave say to the Korean beauty supply shopkeeper and nail technician? A: Gimme the airbrush background and the glitter tips   

You probably didn't know Dan Jenkins. I didn't either, really. But I have to talk about him. I'm given only 700 words in this space, and I've spent every day since last Thursday thinking of how to   

Pooh hadn't been expecting us so early. But there we were -- three hot, hungry, tired and sun-baked black women and a 1-month-old infant -- collapsed in a rear booth at the Queensgate Frisch's. We'  

You've either been under a rock or a cast member of Big Brother if you've not heard that Vice President and presidential hopeful Al Gore -- aka Action Figure Ken -- chose Connecticut Sen. Joseph Lie  

Let's get one thing straight right off. I am a Negress -- the title bestowed by an angry white reader -- with a column and, therefore, I will always have the last word. That said, let's review: Whi