Civil rights activist the Rev. Al Sharpton vowed this week to file a federal inquiry into the death of Mitrice Richardson, a missing 25-year-old woman thought to be mentally ill whose remains were found last week. She had been allowed to leave a sheriff's station nearly a year ago against the wishes of her parents.

Richardson disappeared on Sept. 17, 2009, from the Malibu-Lost Hills substation of the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department in Calabasas, according to news reports.

Sharpton said that Richardson's death was emblematic of law enforcement's general lack of interest in finding and saving missing African Americans.

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Perjury and obstruction of justice conviction of a former Chicago police lieutenant, Jon Burge, has prompted U.S. Rep. Danny K. Davis to introduce a bill Thursday that would make police torture of suspects a crime against humanity thus having no statue of limitation for prosecution.

Under the guise of law enforcement, Burge, as commander for the Brighton Park area, harassed, abused and tortured countless suspects over a twenty year period. Many of these suspects were actually innocent of the crimes they confessed to, including some who ended up on death row.

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One of the tracks "Hey Sucka Nigga" attempts to explain the etymology of the word nigga and why the hiphop generation uses it as a term of endearment.  One college intern explains the use of the word:  if you say NIGGA or NIGGA, then you are using hip, urban slang and describing a friend or a cool person. However, if you say NIGGER and with a tinge of hatred and disdain in your inflection, then you are being racist. This is the modern state of a word that has caused death and destruction for generations of our people.

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Asking a conservative pundit for advice on race is like asking an ayatollah for advice on preparing the Christmas ham.

So the train wreck of a radio segment that generated unwelcome headlines for talk-show host Laura Schlessinger last week was predictable the moment she took a call from an African-American woman named "Jade."

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