January 07, 2016
Color of Law
Executive Editor
These days, the new tactic of racists is to brand people of color as “racist” for shining a light on discrimination and extolling the virtues of diversity.
Please believe it: 2015 was chock-full of racism. America was unhinged this past year, to be sure, with racists coming out of the woodwork. This was…
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Commentary
Editorial Board
Too many of us prefer complacency to discomfort. We prefer to think that everything is fine. Too many would like to pretend that inequality and injustice are minor matters until a headline shakes us out of complacency
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once wrote, “It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from…
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Commentary
Columnist
Emanuel’s upcoming negotiations with the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) will be the final nail in his political coffin. His unyielding commitment to implement the corporate and foundation Cartel’s extermination of public education persists even as his political career is being undone.
The demise of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is at hand based in large part on his continuing assault on public education. Despite his apology for the…
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The African World
Editorial Board
Video is courtesy of The Global African & teleSUR Mr. Fletcher talks to film actor Danny Glover, CEO of Louverture Films and James Early, scholar at the Institute of Policy Studies about the recent elections in Venezuela and what it means for the country going forward. This video also features a discussion with Dr. Stephen Zunes, Professor of Politics and International Studies at the University of San Francisco on the latest in Western Sahara, Africa’s last remaining colony.
Venezuela Elections and Western Africa The Global African Video is courtesy of The Global African & teleSUR Mr. Fletcher talks to film actor Danny Glover, CEO…
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Commentary
Columnist
The deniers view with alarm the movement toward more sustainable and restorative human activity across the planet. They’re alarmed because they know that the money that flows to them from corporations that poison and warm the planet will slow, then (possibly) dry up, if they are not successful in stopping the growing movement to halt climate change.
After the Paris climate talks, nearly the whole world has agreed that nations must act in concert to prevent the gathering disaster of climate change and…
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Sharp n’ Blunt
Columnist
their Great White Hope has arrived and it doesn’t trouble nor pain Conservatives/Confederates, i.e., Trump’s Stormtroopers that the Klan, yes the Klan has found a man, the hi’ n’ all-so mighty Trump, with whom they share common lower-ground.
Donald Trump’s going through a quasi/neo-Confederate coronation of-sorts, the platinum paved trailer park jamboree which is the Republican TEA Party is currently in the process of…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
Some of the best teachers in the country work in schools where students don’t test well. They nurture, they inspire, they protect and guide students whose lives are filled with hardship. Punishing them for their choice is the height of cynicism.
When I was doing community history projects in Bronx schools—they were all pushed out when the testing mania struck and New York City’s Bloomberg Administration started…
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Commentary
Columnist
The erosion of many of our African cultural traditions and foundations are most evidenced in our family and community life. Far too many African people in America are getting away from the essence of family life.
Our late, great ancestor, Dr. Asa G. Hilliard’s book, The Maroon Within Us, once again reminds us of a major problem that we, as African people…
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