March 09, 2017
Commentary
Columnist
The worldwide African Reparations Movement has become unified around the fact that the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade, Slavery, and Colonialism were Crimes Against Humanity.
Henry Louis Gates recently wrote an Op-Ed article that appeared in the New York Times on April 23, 2010, essentially attempting to re-conceptualize the reparations issue…
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Commentary
Guest Commentator
International Women's Day (March 8) is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. The day also marks a call to action for accelerating gender parity.
International Women’s Day (March 8) is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. The day also marks a call to…
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Color of Law
Executive Editor
The fraudulent narrative of slavery as immigration only serves to conceal the truth. If the nation cannot come to terms with the reality of what has been done to Black people, there will be no acknowledgment of the debt owed. Watering down the atrocities is an attempt to mark down the cost of Black suffering, a dangerous, slippery slope that prevents us from getting to the bottom of what went down these past 400 years.
Fresh off his Senate confirmation as Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Dr. Ben Carson addressed HUD employees on Monday with remarks likening…
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Commentary
Guest Commentator
On January 25, 1972 Shirley Chisholm, Member of Congress from New York's Twelfth District announced her candidacy for President of the United States. She became the first woman and the first African-American to seek the nomination of the Democratic Party for the nation's highest office.
On January 25, 1972 Shirley Chisholm, Member of Congress from New York's Twelfth District announced her candidacy for President of the United States. She became the…
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Commentary
Columnist
Trump may have been just musing to himself, when he said the U.S. needs to start winning wars again, but he never seems to realize that words uttered by a president of the U.S. have serious consequences, for Americans and for people around the world.
“We have to start winning wars again,” said the new president at the end of February. In so saying, he showed his lack of understanding of…
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Commentary
Editorial Board
Can we just call Lack of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos “one note Betsy”? Wherever she looks, she sees school choice, although our educational challenges transcend her myopic agenda. If an ant, enticed by honey, entered a charter school instead of the public school next door, she’d call that school choice.
Eighty HBCU Presidents did a “fly in” to the White House in a meeting organized by Trump whisperer Omarosa, South Carolina Senator Tim Scott (R-SC), and…
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Commentary
Columnist
HBCU presidents have to be wary of Trump’s aim to make them members of his school choice posse.
The pummeling of public and higher education by President Donald Trump and his cabinet members has been comprehensive and multifaceted in cultivating the Democratic Party’s traditional…
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The African World
Editorial Board
evidence was displayed of an effort to create a wedge between African Americans and immigrants from the global South, suggesting that such immigrants are our competitors as well as being a threat to our very existence.
Anticipating and sitting through President Trump’s address to Congress was arduous, to say the least. There are so many things that can be said about the…
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