Twisted locks, the manicured cousins of dreadlocks, have arrived in black hair salon nationwide. Are locks just another fad, the Afrocentric equivalent of the now uber-passe Reagan-era Jheri Curl? Or do locks reflect a permanent, metaphysical shift in black consciousness?
Just three weeks before the election, the Clinton-Gore administration squandered what may have been Gore's best chip in the poker game for the Presidency -- the island of Puerto Rico.
Aggressive parole officers and stringent parole laws are sending parolees back to jail in record numbers -- even for petty crimes like writing bad checks.
If Democrats want to put on a demographically correct convention, four straight days of minority appearances wouldn't be enough to accurately represent the real LA. A new study reports 43 percent of LA county residents live under the poverty line.
Nearly one quarter of America's prisoners -- almost 460,000 people -- are behind bars for non-violent drug offenses. However, numerous politicians and policy makers are publicly admitting that treatment programs are superior to harsh prison sentences. Will their opinions translate to action?
