

Newt Gingrich plans to tell the NAACP that black people should ask for paychecks instead of welfare checks.

A new study says that black men don’t benefit from having mentors in the same way that whites do.



Dr. Boyce Watkins takes issue with the column “If I were a Poor Black Kid” written by Gene Marks at Forbes Magazine.

Kirsten West Savali from Your Black World debates with Jesse Lee Peterson about the legacy of Margaret Sanger and abortion.
Raynard Jackson, a Republican, believes that Herman Cain was simply not up to the test.


The case of William Brawner, the HIV positive student at Howard University, sent shock waves through the black community. He knew he had HIV, but kept having unprotected sex. What do incidents like this one mean for the black community? Dr. Jennifer Caudle helps break it down.

Black unemployment keeps rising, while white unemployment goes down in every single category.

How has AIDS affected the black community and did Oprah’s demonization of gay men play a role?

Dr. Boyce Watkins and Professor Christopher Emdin respond to the report that one child per day is arrested in NYC public schools, with 93% of those kids being black or Latino. The professors discuss the reasons behind the crisis and why kids are being criminalized in public schools all across America.

In this video, Dr. Boyce Watkins speaks with Dr. Christopher House. The conversation centers around a church that told members of its congregation to stop taking their HIV medication. As a result, six people have died. The video is below:

YBW columnist and Tyler Perry supporter Yvette Carnell doesn’t have many good things to say about Perry’s new joint.