July 27, 2017
Color of Law
Executive Editor
What Dems need to do is run real people who don’t need spinning and consulting, and real ideas that don’t need to be passed through focus groups.
While the country watches on in angst over investigations into possible collusion between Russian spies and President Donald Trump and his associates, Democrats in Congress must…
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View from the Battlefield
Editorial Board
In a nation where Black lives rarely matter and where Black people have been relentlessly pointing out the deadly disparities in policing, will this be the time when white America’s empathy translates to solidarity with the endless pain of Black and Brown communities?
Since my last column about cops playing the fear card as their irrefutable justification for unnecessary deadline force, it happened. The very scenario that I written…
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Commentary
Columnist
In “the only democracy in the Middle East,” Palestinians have few, if any, rights in Israel. And, in the U.S., the self-proclaimed center of democracy in the world, the rights of the people are abrogated anytime they get in the way of profits and the power of the political and economic elite.
The U.S. Congress is about to make at least one form of speech a felony, thus driving another nail into the coffin of the First Amendment…
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Commentary
Columnist
The rug was pulled out from under the Trump voters who believed his claim that his plan to repeal the ACA would be great and “everybody’s going to get healthcare.” Trump has repeatedly demonstrated he doesn’t even understand how healthcare coverage, including Medicaid, and the legislative path toward delivering it (to the American people) works.
I’ve been alive long enough to have seen 10 presidents (nine, I can vividly remember). During the tenures of the nine Chief Executives prior to the…
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Commentary
Columnist
Of the six community organizations invited to contribute to the curriculum, one-third represent police officers, and they have been resolute in defending existing police behavior irrespective of the police and citizen cell phone videos documenting highly questionable police practices
In recent months New York City, Texas, New Jersey, and other states have conceived and/or are developing classes to teach students how to interact with police…
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Commentary
Editorial Board
While I don’t agree with all of McCain’s soaring sentiments, I am moved by his grace. And, again in contrast to 45, he acknowledged President Obama, while 45 spent years disparaging him with his “birther” arguments.
I don’t agree with Arizona Senator John McCain about very much, but I was saddened by his recent diagnosis of brain cancer. He says he will…
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Sharp n’ Blunt
Columnist
OJ is a symbol, a human meter which reflects and illustrates the overt, blind-hatred much, if not most of White America holds for Black people.
OJ is “Negro-Glycerine. In some quarters he’s “Nigger-mite . . . .” Just say his name and the room may explode. No shit. “OJ,” the “house…
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Commentary
Columnist
We must not abandon family life. It is the basis for our survival and development. It is the strategy of the white supremacy system to place so much pressure on us that we give up our fight for independence and freedom.
Since the early 1900s, Black and white scholars have written much on the Black family. When one examines the card catalogue of any library in America…
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