Category: Cover Story

First day out on the presidential campaign trail, Senator Joe Biden of Delaware unknowingly step on a racial landmine by depicting his most formidable competitor, Senator Barack Obama, in the race for the nation’s top job as “ articulate”. The reaction to his blunder has brought out political correct histrionics by politicians and has also…

Economic opportunity, said Ben Bernanke, chairman of the US Federal Reserve “should be as widely distributed and as equal as possible”. That was the first of three principles he spelled out for economic policy in a recent speech. Further, he said, “economic outcomes need not be equal but should be linked to the contributions each…

CNN business reporter Susan Lisovicz got really excited when the President arrived on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange last week. Explaining later to an anchor why she thought the President, whose public approval rating stood at 36 percent, had received a rapturous welcome on the exchange floor, she exuded: “These are his…

The President’s State of the Union offered us “more of the same” in both of the voters’ highest priority issues in the November elections– ending the war and getting national healthcare. Think about the manipulations of language that the Bush administration is using to encourage both policies – the Iraq war policy and the market-based…

Dr. Brewer is attending the WSF forum in Nairobi, Kenya as a news correspondent for BlackCommentator.com. She will be reporting on events at the WSF exclusively for BC. Not only is another world possible, but necessary for Africa. This is the general sentiment expressed by a delegate to the World Social Forum, a long time…

Dr. Brewer is attending the WSF forum in Nairobi, Kenya as a news correspondent for BlackCommentator.com. She will be reporting on events at the WSF exclusively for BC. During the week of January 20 through 26, 2007, the 7th world forum in as many years is being held in Nairobi, Kenya. This forum occurs in…

The Michael Steele 2006 Senatorial campaign in Maryland posed the question front and center of what does one mean by “Black Politics?” Does “Black politics” mean the politics of the mass of Black people or does it mean the politics of people who happen to be Black? In posing the question that way I am…

(4) and an analysis of the prospects for transnational racial and class resistance to both global apartheid and America’s “New Racial Domain.” In 1900, the great African-American scholar W.E.B. Du Bois, predicted that the “problem of the twentieth century” would be the “problem of the color line,” the unequal relationship between the lighter versus darker…

If the Democrats fail to win the 2008 Presidential election, guess who will deserve the blame? Black people. That’s the way some people in the top leadership of the party, and at least one pundit, apparently see it. Why? Because in the wake of this year’s Congressional election, the party faces “irreconcilable demands in a…

The following was a Chancellor’s Distinguished Lecture delivered at Fayetteville State University [University of North Carolina – Fayetteville], November 14, 2006. The racialized criminal justice system of America, with its two million prisoners, with four million others who are either on probation, parole or awaiting trial today, represents the greatest political and moral challenge to…