May 19, 2016
Cover Story
Editorial Board
He hit all the right notes. He told students to celebrate their blackness their way. He offered sage, but not scolding advice and seemed nowhere as condescending as he did at Morehouse.
I was apprehensive when I learned that President Obama would give the commencement speech at Howard University this year. I feared a repeat of his Morehouse…
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Commentary
Guest Commentator
This is what happened with the March on Washington. The whites didn't integrate it; they infiltrated it. Whites joined it; they engulfed it; they became so much a part of it, it lost its original flavor. It ceased to be a black march; it ceased to be militant; it ceased to be angry; it ceased to be impatient.
Malcolm X Born: Malcolm Little, May 19, 1925, Omaha, Nebraska Died: El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, February 21, 1965, Audubon Ballroom, Harlem, New York City New York City,…
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Commentary
Columnist
Malcolm X is a man who should be studied carefully in our efforts to examine a critical period in our history - the 1960s. For, it was during this period that Malcolm X became an internationally known and respected African in America leader, whose ideas were widely discussed and debated.
Since the untimely transition of Malcolm X in 1965, movement forces throughout the world have consistently commemorated his birthday. Malcolm X was born on May 19,…
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Color of Law
Executive Editor
The auctioning of a gun as a souvenir - as if it is a proud moment in history of which you should want to be a part - hearkens back to the Jim Crow era, a time when lynchings were not only a form of race-based violence but also of entertainment and spectacle. Tickets were sold to the events and families had picnic outings, while photographs and postcards of the grisly murder were taken as souvenirs. Sometimes, even the body parts of the victim's bullet-riddled beaten, mutilated corpse, including the genitalia, were given to spectators as souvenirs, as a trophy.
Seeking to profit from a death you caused - by auctioning the gun that you used to kill a black teenager, for instance - is a…
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Commentary
Editorial Board
newly uncovered documents reveal that the Democratic Party’s goal was to prevent “outsider” candidates from getting the nomination, and to reduce the role of primary voters.
Every election cycle, family members call to ask how they should vote on propositions and for which candidates. Our readers frequently ask the LA Progressive to…
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Commentary
Editorial Board
On this year’s anniversary of "Brown v. Board of Education”, African Americans and Latino Americans continue to attend not only segregated schools, but they also attend high-poverty urban ones with metal detectors.
When you reside at the intersections of multiple identities anniversaries of your civil rights struggles can be both bitter and sweet. And this May 17th was…
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Commentary
Columnist
The annual cutoff for overtime until this week was $23,660, which comes out to $11.38 an hour. For that low wage, employers were allowed to call the worker a manager and salaried and pay no overtime at time-and-a-half.
The warnings are coming loud and clear: If employers are required to pay for work done, bad things will happen. President Obama has issued an executive…
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Commentary
Columnist
In Camden, as will be the case in Trenton, the Hope Act which allows for the establishment of corporate charters with fewer controls and lesser accountability than the charters that already exist. And state funding is also available for their creation.
They all came last Sunday, supporters and advocates for public education from all over New Jersey: Camden, Middlesex, Mercer, Atlantic, Essex, Bergen, Hudson and other New…
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