December 01, 2016
Commentary
Columnist
Trump had to do a lot of overlooking to achieve that combination.
If worker rights are human rights, then Donald Trump’s pick for his United Nations ambassador is someone who has shown she has little respect for workers’…
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Commentary
Columnist
The perpetual cycle of head-banging, foot-stomping, hand-wringing, and singing Kumbaya is well into its second century.
So, the deed is done. In the aftermath of the 2016 election of millionaire business mogul Donald Trump to the presidency of the United States, he’s…
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Sharp n’ Blunt
Columnist
They’re “elitists” who are trying to ram this pipeline down the throats of a proud and noble people who have fought European genocide efforts for half a millennium.
It’s no shock most Americans of color find the hallowed words of the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights to be mighty,…
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Commentary
Editorial Board
I never thought a 2016 presidential election would have me not only time travel back to the 1950s and 1960s, but reside there at least for the next four years.
As I prepared for the Thanksgiving holiday, I was reminded of the autumnal harvest time’s spiritual significance. As a time of connectedness, I paused to acknowledge…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
Given the “Thanksgiving Day” celebration and the growing angst and fury evident in so many Americans - white and Black - and the equally jubilant escalation of the political aggressive behavior of “some” of the triumphant supporters of Donald Trump - bordering on violent euphoria - prompted me to think of Frederick Douglass’ iconic question “What to the Negro is your Fourth of July?
Succinctly, conventional history tells us that the first Thanksgiving was a celebration and “Thank you” held by “Pilgrims” for having “survived” that first cruel winter and,…
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Commentary
Editorial Board
Mid-term election turnout is always extremely low – it was just 36 percent in 2014, the lowest level in 70 years. Democrats must start now to educate and encourage people to turn out for the mid-term elections. And voting rights organizations must begin now to reverse the voter suppression that kept millions from voting on November 8.
The apprehension that I felt upon Donald Trump’s victory in the Presidential election has only increased as he has announced the appointments of his chief of…
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Commentary
Columnist
Part of our internal repair is to consciously understand that “We Are Owed” and that we have a historic responsibility to demand reparations from those forces of white supremacy that continue to benefit from what they did to us and that lingers on as part of the vestiges of our enslavement.
Day-by-day, African people in America are becoming more familiar with the concept of reparations and what it means to our continued struggle in America for self-determination,…
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Color of Law
Executive Editor
Castro expressed his solidarity with black people through actions. He granted asylum to Black Panthers such as Assata Shakur and others — political prisoners who fled the oppression they faced in America, the “land of the free,” and who were the victims of J. Edgar Hoover’s war on black liberation, on civil rights groups and on their leadership.
Let us not forget that when he visited New York in 1959 — fresh off the revolution — he met with Malcolm X and stayed at…
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