March 10, 2016
Color of Law
Executive Editor
There are no redeemable policy details that Trump presents that would tempt any racially-tolerant person to sit through his hate-flaming stump speeches.
Donald Trump campaign rallies are a lot like Coke Zero. Die-hard supporters of Trump get a rich taste of of a good ol’ fashion white supremacist…
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Commentary
Editorial Board
Her audacity, her self-possession, her activism were notable during a time when few women, regardless of race, promoted themselves, instead choosing to walk softly and speak quietly.
Women entrepreneurs have a powerful role model when they consider Madame CJ Walker. One of our nation’s first female self-made millionaires, her story of combining herbs…
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View from the Battlefield
Editorial Board
What has evolved over the last few years is the creation of these exclusive clubs—formations of families who have lost children, mainly to police terrorism.
“If you want to hear the truth, you must let the suffering speak.” This was the quote by Cornel West that Cephus Johnson led off with…
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Commentary
Columnist
it’s clear that investors, not news people, are in charge of the dissemination of information that a democracy needs. Everything is a “product” and news is no different than the latest electric can opener.
There have been lots of words written about the demise of newspapers and other “news outlets” in the U.S. by such organizations as FAIR, Fairness and…
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Commentary
Columnist
Beginning in the 1990s, lead poisoning became intertwined with education reform initiatives as the Cartel of corporate and foundation leaders, and their surrogates, came to realize that the prevalence of lead poisoning in school children in under-funded and under-performing urban schools could be part of their strategy to promote private-sector alternatives to public schools—
High, unregulated activity levels. These barriers to a successful education experience disproportionately doom hundreds of thousands of poor children of color in urban settings to failed…
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Commentary
Editorial Board
The last time an African American lesbian was the protagonist in a novel was in Ann Allen Shockley’s 1982 “Say Jesus and Come to Me.” What shocked and awed readers about this main character is that she is also an itinerant minister.
“Their emigration to Jonestown in Guyana, South American represents another leg of the African Diaspora, but this time black bodies are stolen and killed not by…
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Sharp n’ Blunt
Columnist
I’d venture to say, this angry WASP backlash is hyper-escalating at scary-ass pace. The Johnny Reb’s coming back-to-life in front of our eyes, like Frankenstein.
Lord Trump has the backing and support of the US military veterans, local police departments across the land, and he’s garnered the endorsement of the Klan.…
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Commentary
Columnist
“that there is indeed an African reality system that is not only indigenous to Africans in America, but that most of us are almost totally unaware of it and how it determines our very lives.”
As I have repeated in these columns on numerous occasions, the African centered consciousness and the African Centered Movement is critical to the liberation of African…
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