September 21, 2017
View from the Battlefield
Editorial Board
With another racist acquittal of a killer cop, the haunting question is what we have learned about justice and injustice since the 2014 Ferguson Uprising. The “we” is both public decision-makers and our racial justice movement.
SOS. Save our Ship. Save our Souls. Save our Society. Save our Sons. Same Ole Shit. However we define the acronym, it is a distress call.…
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Color of Law
Executive Editor
Society must address the conditioning and insecurities of young men, the aggression and antisocial behavior that may cause them to blame others for their problems and commit these heinous acts, and the white power groups that may lure and influence them.
(CNN)They say that boys will be boys, but what do we make of those boys when they attempt to lynch another child, or put on Ku…
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Commentary
Columnist
Over many years, the rich and the corporations have used every other institution to destroy the power of unions and, therefore, the power of workers. They have used the courts, the state legislatures, the Congress, the education systems, television, magazines, and newspapers.
For once, the New York Post got it right, when last week it ran a story about the steel-producing Mahoning Valley of Ohio, where 40 years…
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Commentary
Editorial Board
President Obama improved the situation for all Americans, it is also clear that his unwillingness or inability to target programs toward the African American poor maintained the size of the income gap, and maintained the fact that African Americans experience twice as much poverty as whites, earning only 60 percent of the incomes that whites do.
The income, poverty and health insurance data released by the Census Bureau on September 13 confirm what many already knew. President Obama’s last year was one…
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Commentary
Columnist
Since the early 1990s, voucher and charter laws were systematically passed by state legislatures across the nation. They were funded in part by a Cartel of corporate education reformers who conspired to turn public education private and to make it a new corporate profit center as the U.S. public schools became increasingly populated by low-income students of color.
Political Updates: The 2017 gubernatorial elections in New Jersey and Virginia are must wins for the teachers and unions backing the Democratic candidates. Although both candidates…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentators
Although the Black population has increased in all U.S. regions since 1990, the South has had the most growth. Gentrification as well as economic restructuring are motors of this growth, as they are displacing numerous African Americans from Northern cities. In addition, for the first time, the 2010 census showed that many Black professionals are also returning to the South. The percentage of the Black population that lives in the South is growing.
This essay was prepared in March 2015, prior to the 2016 election season that eventually resulted in Donald Trump’s victory. However, the far rightwing’s capture of…
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Sharp n’ Blunt
Columnist
That’s one of those “slap my momma and call me nigger” moments because it seems impossible that Black folks would be dumb enough, gullible enough to brand Trump a “good” white man. It’s undistupital across the Black nation - the man’s a racist.
Is there any doubt, does any real legit question remain regarding Donald Trump being a unquestionable despicable racist? Who is it that is proclaiming Donald Trump's…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
like most older Americans I saw the changes of the past sixty-odd years; the violence against Civil Rights marchers, the riots, and pain and suffering. And, like most Americans, I assumed we as a nation were done with that. Boy was I wrong.
I am a white man in my mid-seventies. And although I have no life experience comparable to black men of my age I do have memories…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
The NFL is the most gigantic golden goose in the history of professional sports, and owners do not want discussions of race to infiltrate the white fan base, potentially jeapordizing or impeding the laying of those billions of golden eggs.
There is nothing new about a consensus being reached among athletic officials or owners of sports teams that it is perfectly alright to violate the Constitutional…
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