It seems that the controversy swirling around Barack Obama's former pastor Reverend Jeremiah Wright just won't end.

In the May 12th issue of 'Newsweek' magazine, the focus has turned from the Democratic presidential candidate to talk show Queen Oprah Winfrey. It would appear that while Winfrey has parlayed her gift of gab into a lucrative empire, she didn't appreciate the inflammatory tone of Rev. Wright's speech while she attended his church.

Winfrey, a transplant to Chicago like Obama, was most likely drawn to the sense of community at the Trinity United Church of Christ when she began attending in 1984. It was the house of worship's assistance to the poor and its down home southern values that probably gave her a sense of connectedness to her new city .

But it only took Winfrey two years to pull up stakes, only attending services there infrequently until the mid 1990's.

So what cooled her warm and fuzzy feeling? According to the article, written by Allison Samuel, it was Wright and organized religion that made Winfrey weary.

Not Guilty on all counts; that's the verdict handed down in the trial of three detectives accused of gunning down unarmed bridegroom Sean Bell in Jamaica, Queens on November 25, 2006.

Today, Judge Arthur Cooperman said while he found the actions of Det. Michael Oliver, Det. Gesnard Isnora and Det. Mark Cooper "careless" he didn't think it rose to the level of making them criminally responsible for Bell's death. His words were more than Bell's Fiancee' Nicole Paultre could take.

She quickly stood up in the middle of his reading, breaking the silence in the courtroom by saying "I'm outta here." She then hustled into the hallway. Grief stricken Bell's mother began crying softly as the Judge finished talking.

More trouble for Christine Beatty, the former chief of staff to Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, charged in the scandal that's rocked that city.

Beatty is now forbidden to travel anywhere outside the state of Michigan. She must also now wear an electronic tether.

The new restrictions were imposed by Magistrate Steve Lockhart. It comes after it was discovered that Beatty planned to leave the state of Michigan for a job interview. Lockhart said that Beatty failed to provide the court with her travel itinerary and thus the tether rule was enforced.

There is a ground swell of anger against Reverend Al Sharpton and the Florida chapter of the NAACP over their apparent support of a gang of black teenagers charged with holding and assaulting a 35-year-old Haitian mother and her 12 year old son at gunpoint inside their home at the Dunbar Village housing project in West Palm Beach, Florida. The four black teens are accused of committing heinous crimes. They are charged with beating, raping and sodomizing the victim then making her abuse her own son. Before fleeing, the suspects also reportedly poured chemicals into the boy's eyes and tried to set both victims on fire.

Three weeks ago Rev. Al Sharpton and local representatives of the NAACP held a press conference to throw their support behind the suspects. They told the press that they are upset over the treatment of the black suspects versus the handling of the case of five white teens charged with attacking two white girls after a night of drinking. While the white suspects were given bail, the black teens are being held without bond.

The right to keep and bear arms is a constitutional provision granted by the Second Amendment. Yet, the case of John White on Long Island calls into question when you should exercise that right.

For those who don't know, John White is a hard-working father, who scrimped and saved to buy his family a home in an upscale Long Island neighborhood. The well-liked man who had never been in trouble with the law had his life turned upside down one night in 2006; that's when he shot and killed a drunk white teen with an illegal weapon in his driveway. The teen and his group of equally belligerent friends had come to the White home threatening to kill White's teenage son, Aaron.

Why you might ask? A rumor had circulated that the black teen was planning to rape a white girl. After 17-year-old Daniel Cicciaro and his friends shouted racial slurs, White came out of his home carrying a handgun. He pointed at Cicciaro during a confrontation and then the gun allegedly went off accidentally. Unfortunately, the jury didn't buy it. He was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to two to four years behind bars.

Over the last few weeks there have been incredible positive advancements by black males in society and in their portrayal in the media. Barack Obama clinched two more primaries, moving ever closer to the possibility of a monumental and historic presidency.

While in New York, Lieutenant Governor David Paterson rose from the ashes of the Governor Eliot Spitzer scandal to become a unifying force for the state. Today, he will be sworn in as New York's 55th governor; only the third black governor U.S. history and the first for that state.

These two men, not only demonstrate the ability of the intelligence and integrity of black men to bridge the country's racial divide, but both men are married to black women, exemplifying the strength and power the black family can possess.

She was once the poster girl for the societal advances when she was picked by Walter Mondale to be his presidential running mate in 1984.

Now, Geraldine Ferraro -- the first female vice presidential candidate in the history of the nation back then -- has become the first casualty of the racially charged war of words coming from the Sen. Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign she supports.

Ferraro was quoted recently as saying that Barack Obama wouldn't be a contender if he was a white man and that people voting for him were really supporting a concept, not him.