June 30, 2016
Sharp n’ Blunt
Columnist
Evidently the Redneck mentality has gone global. Hitler's Third Reich never died . . . it lives on in England and Mississippi, tell me I’m lying!
“Make America White again,” “make Great Britain White Again.” And while they’re at it angry, hostile White people will be making a few other European nations…
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View from the Battlefield
Editorial Board
Globalism has created discontent and uprisings all over the world. The vast majority of the world’s people is experiencing corporate greed and suffering under the austere policies passed by politicians to maintain the obscene profits of the rich.
Brexit, the shortened slang for British exit of the European Union, was a referendum to determine whether the United Kingdom would stay or leave the Union.…
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Color of Law
Executive Editor
For all of the complaints in the black community about the lack of black faces on the screen, if we do not support stories about our history, these films will no longer be made.
Some people are complaining that Hollywood is producing too many movies about American slavery. But that’s not the problem. There can never be too many movies…
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Commentary
Editorial Board
Congressman Lewis and his colleagues were not successful in forcing votes on gun control. But they were successful in shutting the House down. Speaker Ryan was forced to adjourn Congress before he planned to, and Republicans sulked off like thieves in the night.
Ryan was insulting and condescending in calling the sit-in a “stunt”, and he reminded me of the many reasons I so admire Congressman John Lewis. Was…
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Commentary
Columnist
The Cartel for education reform is aggressively orchestrating a scam in New Jersey in an attempt to squeeze as much privatization as possible out of public education in the final year of Gov. Christie’s last term.
Update: Dr. Penny MacCormack, former Montclair, NJ superintendent and now chief academic officer at the Association of College and University Educators (ACUE), has caused the university’s…
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Commentary
Columnist
What can be done in the rich countries is to enact laws that take into consideration the destructive nature of palm oil production. Rich governments could ban such products, just as they ban products that are made using slave labor or indentured labor.
It has become routine for rich nations to exploit poor nations that possess natural resources that the rich nations want and, to get those resources, the…
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Commentary
Columnist
Perhaps Garvey’s greatest contribution to the uplifting of our people was his ability to find a formula for organizing African people around the African principle: the greatest good for the greatest number.
In 1914, the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League, was founded under the leadership of the Honorable Marcus Mosiah Garvey. This August represents the…
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