Former US Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney may be the sister running for the Presidency under the Green Party banner but all eyes are on Gwen Ifill this week. Ifill, is the moderator and managing editor of “Washington Week”, a news and public affairs program on PBS, and senior correspondent for “The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer”. She will moderate Thursday’s debate between Vice Presidential nominees Governor Sarah Palin and Senator Joe Biden. And I suspect more people may tune in to watch this debate than last week’s match-up between Presidential nominees Obama and McCain. Read the full story

A few weeks ago I heard that Michigan Republicans were going to have officials at polling places to make sure that anyone who is facing (or already experienced) foreclosure didn’t try to use their current (or old) address to vote. According to today’s The New York Times this is not is not an isolated incident. In fact, this is an issue in all the other so-called swing states too like Ohio, Florida and Colorado. But I am sure that it won’t stop there. Read the full story

I don’t know about you but I am sick of hearing about how sisters are last on the list when the discussion involves white men and women as well as black men. But a recent article in The American Prospect caught my eye. Besides the usual stats, what struck me was how sisters don’t seem to be getting ahead. Actually, an  argument actually can be made that we’re actually losing some ground. The truth is that we earn a mere .63 for every dollar earned by a white man. And nearly one million of us earn less than the minimum wage. Depressing huh? Read the full story

File this under the never-ending story. Just when we thought the Kwame Kilpatrick Detroit mess was behind us comes word that his co-defendent Christine Beatty turned down the deal offered to her today. That means this whole riduculous mess will cost the Motor City that much more money when this whole thing goes to trial. Read the full story

If only the citizens of the world could cast their votes in this upcoming Presidential election. According to a recent poll conducted by the BBC, of the 22 nations queried, all of them would prefer the Democratic nominee, Senator Barack Obama over Senator John McCain. Read the full story

As a woman who grew up with a painter/percussionist for a father, I’ve always appreciated the arts. Recently I tried to think of some acclaimed black female visual artists—and I couldn’t think of one for our times. I know of a few black female artists personally who have been painting since the 50’s and 60’s—but they are mostly unknown in general. Then I tried to think of some women from the early 19^th century and I could only think of black men (Henry Ossawa Tanner and Ellis Wilson). Read the full story

We haven’t heard a lot from Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice lately. I guess she is ascribing to the saying “if you can’t say something nice than don’t say anything at all…”  when it comes to the Republican ticket. Anyway, after nearly eight years in the White House this sister is calling things as she sees them. Read the full story

Last month, I wrote on a small blog post about Bernice and MLK III suing their baby brother Dexter because they wanted the books of The Estate of Martin Luthur King opened. There was talk of financial misappropriation. Now, their little brother strikes back and has countersued his siblings. Read the full story

When LisaRaye McCoy became the first Lady of Turks & Caicos it sounded like a beautiful thing. But since she was working in Hollywood and her husband, Michael Missick, was fulfilling his political duties as Premier of the idyllic island it wasn’t going to be easy. Turns out it was an impossible situation. And distance seemed to be the least of their problems. The Premier has been under a cloud of sexual impropriety from the start. And for a time, the actress supported her man like Hillary stood by Bill.   Read the full story

The news earlier this week that model and reality show creator turned talk show host, Tyra Banks, will grace the September cover of Harper’s Bazaar posed as Michelle Obama sort of stunned me. I guess that was the point.  What better way to draw attention to the new season of The Tyra Banks Show than to stir up publicity and controversy all at once. Read the full story