For those outside of reality, coonery exists as a tight fitting hat or a reversible reality. By Don Allen, Publisher – Our Black News Hortense Spillers, “Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe,” becomes more timely and relevant…
By Don Allen, Publisher – Our Black News Someone carries a key; a key to the past – searching for a door; a door with a lock. A door with a keyhole; a keyhole that…
By Don Allen, Publisher – Our Black News (Independent Business News NetworksTM) Okay, I first have to apologize to my brothers and sisters from the East and West Coasts; especially the hard working blacks in…
By Don Allen, Publisher – Our Black News (formally IBNN News) Minneapolis, Minn…As a former active duty military solider, now scholar, it shocks me to see the limited amount of intellectual aptitude from those who…
By Yvette Carnell, Originally posted on YourBlackNews.com Do you ever notice that when President Obama speaks to black people, the tone seems to change? Some welcome the shift in conversation as a reflection of cozy familiarity….
By Robert M. Entman and Andrew Rojecki This highly recommended study traces the reciprocal relationship between white racial attitudes and the presentation of blacks in the mass media. The authors have worked hard to make their…
OBN Editors Note: If you did not see this coming, the evidence was clear as the nose on your face. For Immediate Release – Contact: Steven Belton, sbelton@mul.org – 612-302-3101 Minneapolis, MN – The Minneapolis Urban League (MUL) Board…
“We keep coming back to the question of representation because identity is always about representation. People forget that when they wanted white women to get into the workforce because of the world war, what did…
By Don Allen, Publisher Looking through the lens of postmodernism as it pertains to color, race, class and more specifically, the African American, it becomes even more problematic to define the modern, postmodern and post-post…
By Don Allen I have differed musings about this book. From one perspective I admire it’s bring down of Freud and its elucidation of how individuals are made to yearning remorseless administrations. Maybe it’s to…