Issue: 234

There are a lot of things you wouldn’t know from reading most of the papers or watching the TV. For instance, there were demonstrations and press conferences across the country earlier this month, demanding action to deal with the growing crisis in the home ownership business. Major civil rights and housing groups have called for…

Parenthood makes one reflect upon his or her childhood with a clarity never before possible. For me, the latest scenario providing new lucidity into my own upbringing was the specter of securing the best educational and social opportunities for my now three-year-old daughter. I used to roll my eyes and turn up my lips when…

First they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew. Then they came for the Communist and I did not speak out because I was not a Communist. Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out because I was not a trade…

For those of us who have studied or been exposed to classical Greek philosophy, we know how philosophers and teachers in that era, Socrates, Protagoras, and other Sophists, valued and equated ideals of truth and beauty and justice. Given their search and beliefs, what did it mean at the level of law and politics? These…

At the outset I would like to dedicate the ‘Keeping It Real With Larry Pinkney,’ column of this issue to my father, James S. Pinkney, who I have just been informed has passed away, peacefully and with dignity. “I want to color this man father / I want to color him love…” Indeed, I wish…

Listen to mp3 audio of speech It’s a privilege and an honor to be in the white intellectual ghetto of the West. This is a student conference, as it should be, held on a campus, and we’ll never be caught up in intellectual masturbation on the question of Black Power. That’s the function of the…

As we prepare for the Twenty-eighth Annual National Black United Front (NBUF) Convention, to be held in Houston, Texas at the S.H.A.P.E. Center from July 12-15, 2007, we are honored to commemorate the birthday of our great ancestor, Kwamé Turé, who was born in Trinidad on June 29, 1941. Kwamé moved with his family to…

From our hearts and from our suffering: the following – and sprinkled about – are stories from petition signers on healthcare-now.org., petitions calling for passage of H.R. 676 for a single payer, non-profit healthcare system in the United States. Pearl V., FL I have visited a number of European countries all of whom are much…