July 06, 2017
Commentary
Editorial Board
45’s tweets are simply the tip of the iceberg. They illustrate a lack of decency that is worse than the incivility of name-calling. The indecency and incivility in this administration is as much about flawed and inhumane public policy as juvenile name-calling.
During the 2016 campaign, our 45th President once promised that he would be “so Presidential that it will be boring.” If only. Instead, he has managed…
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Commentary
Columnist
Destruction of Peru's rainforests is very much a part of the climate change that is devastating or threatening the world's seacoasts and its inland food production regions.
The forests of the world are among the most important cleansers of the air we breathe and producers of the oxygen we need, and the rainforests…
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Commentary
Columnist
In the twentieth-century, leaders such as Marcus Garvey, Carter G. Woodson, Elijah Muhammad, and Malcolm X, all spoke and wrote consistently about the need for African people to develop an education program aimed ant developing African people “to do for self.”
Read Part 1 Throughout most of our lives, African people in America have been told if you get a good education you can get a good…
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View from the Battlefield
Editorial Board
Fearing for one’s police life seems to have no real criteria. Everyone looks big and black to a cop. Police procedure and training get thrown out the window when blackness is involved.
The acquittal of killer cop of Dominique Heaggan-Brown in the shooting death of Syville Smith was the third in one month; two cop acquittals happened in…
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Color of Law
Executive Editor
Black people have been monitored and regulated since the days when the slave patrols, the nation’s first police force, roamed the plantation.
When a Black police officer is shot by a white officer who mistakes him for a regular Black criminal rather than a cop, we are told…
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Commentary
Columnist
police have the right to shoot and kill another person, regardless of the circumstance; civilians are simply “deputized” to do the same…if they are white.
You can act as if you didn’t see it, but you can’t act as if you didn’t hear it. Hear what, you ask? The silence of…
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Commentary
Columnist
are fuming over what they are labeling “a police deference bill” and wonder why the New Jersey State Policemen’s Benevolent Association and the State Fraternal Order of Police will have such prominent roles in shaping the curriculum while the People’s Organization for Progress (POP) and Black Lives Matter (BLM), the foremost advocates in opposing police brutality and overreach in New Jersey, have been excluded from participation.
New Jersey Assemblypersons have broken new ground in proposing Assembly Bill A114 requiring that all New Jersey public school students from kindergarten through grade twelve be…
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