Areva Martin

Your past doesn’t have to dictate your future, but if you are smart, you will figure out lessons from it that will enrich your current and future endeavors. I surely have. I know what it’s like to start life at what many pundits may call a disadvantage. I also know that your circumstances don’t define

Hillary Clinton doesn’t smile enough. She doesn’t show the American people enough of her heart. Gretchen Carlson is a gold digger because she settled her sexual harassment case against Roger Ailes out of court rather then proceeding to trial. The women who have accused Bill Cosby of sexual assault are only looking for a payday.

When Donald Trump arrived in Detroit for his first black church visit, he was met with empty pews and hundreds of protesters including prominent African American ministers.  For many in the African American community, this was nothing but a publicity stunt and photo op that quite frankly, backfired. Although the Black church has a long and

GUEST BLOG BY ERIC ANDERSON San Francisco 49’ers Quarterback Colin Kaepernick must have known he was stirring up a hornet’s nest—while simultaneously setting fire to it—by refusing to stand for the National Anthem during NFL pre-season games. And he clearly must have known he was throwing vials of nitroglycerin onto that fire when he said

GUEST BLOG BY ERIC ANDERSON Who is Pastor Mark Burns? Until this week not many people knew or probably cared. But leave it to the master of manipulation and TV antics, Donald Trump, to propel this fast-talking, fact-challenged, Black preacher turned political surrogate into the national lime light for what we all should hope will

Dear Mr. Trump, It’s me again. And this time I’m not just speaking out on behalf of educated black women. I want you to know that for the more than 46 million African-Americans that you purport to be suddenly concerned about, we’re not convinced of your sincerity. Perhaps you didn’t know this but African Americans, like you, often