Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich launched a nuclear attack on the needy last week by using ugly stereotypes to argue that people are poor because they are lazy and the solution to widespread poverty is scrapping child labor laws and putting poor kids to work in menial jobs.

Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter went where few black leaders have gone. And I think I can count those other who did on one hand.

Nutter dared speak truth to action on the critical state of black youth in this country.

Herman Cain has had a difficult couple of weeks. Just as his supporters seemed ready to move on after allegations by several women of sexual harassment during Cain’s tenure as the head of the National Restaurant Association, now we have learned that a Georgia businesswoman is claiming a 13-year extramarital affair with the GOP presidential hopeful.

On December 1st, we observed World AIDS day. First organized in 1988 by the United Nation’s World Health Organization, World AIDS Day began as a way to

increase awareness of the disease and support those affected by it, their families, their communities and even entire countries.