Jun 13, 2013
Commentary
Editorial Board
How can one speak of conciliation and healing when trust in the legal and social contracts, in one’s fellow human being, no longer exist?
...American self-evasion...is all that this country has as history... - James Baldwin, The Devil Finds Work When an event places the most extreme demands on us,…
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Commentary
Columnist
a family may have eaten today, but they literally don’t know where their next meal is coming from.
A dictionary definition of sequestration says that sequestration is “the action of taking legal possession of assets until a debt has been paid or other claims…
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Sharp n’ Blunt
Columnist
Martin’s bereaved parents are saying, before the trial even begins, “we want justice, and we want everyone to remain calm.”
A town, a state , a region, an entire nation... sitting on “pins n’ needles.” Good God... Paint if you will, a picture, a polarized-picture, in…
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Commentary
Columnist
This is probably one of the most important days in your life as you make this transition, this rite of passage, in moving toward another stage in your development as young Africans in America.
Once again, I am sharing my annual graduation speech in hopes that it will help African people in America understand the real meaning of these rites…
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