755 – Black Commentator

Commentary

Black Political Excellence

By Dr. Julianne Malveaux, PhD Editorial Board

The awful outcome of the 2016 election has emboldened young African Americans to seek public office, against all odds. It’s an exciting development in an otherwise gloomy political time, and it ought also be motivation for people to vote in the midterm elections!

Senators Corey Booker (D-NJ) and Kamala Harris (D_CA) used their time wisely in their questioning of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kaveaugh, the elusive man whose hidden…

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View from the Battlefield

The Color of Disaster Relief

By Jamala Rogers Editorial Board

We must fight for meaningful relief of those still living. We must advocate for humble remembrances of the Black and Brown lives tragically lost in disasters, whether man-made or natural.

As the nation honors those who perished on September 11, little attention is paid to the watery graves of the Gulf Coast. The 13th anniversary of…

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Commentary

Why Republicans Could Prevail in the 2018 Midterms

By Dr. Walter C. Farrell, Jr., PhD, M.S.P.H. Columnist

Republicans continue to march in lockstep behind the party agenda laid out by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and departing Speaker Paul Ryan. The Democrats are experiencing intra-party squabbles between its more liberal Progressive wing and the Party’s old-line leaders, and they continue to be unable to agree to rally behind a common plan for the future.

But Trump’s management of the economy remains a big plus for his base and the ‘silent majority’ of Americans who are pleased by his economic performance…

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Commentary

As Trump’s National Security Chief, Bolton Warns the World

By John Funiciello Columnist

This is the time for reckoning, domestically and in the rest of the world where the U.S. has held sway for generations, for the rising up against the impunity and cruelty of Trump and Bolton and those who think and act as they do. Despite the trainloads of lies that rise from this White House, the reckoning may already have started.

The Trump Administration is doing its best to destroy the International Criminal Court because it threatens the sovereignty of the U.S., according to John Bolton, the…

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Cartoon

Money Vendido

By Eric Garcia Cartoonist/Artist

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Guest Commentary

Waiting in the Shade While Black!

By Dr. Arica L. Coleman, PhD Guest Commentator

The team had been waiting for about twenty minutes when they noticed a police car pull up behind them. A second police car parked behind the first. A neighbor had called the cops!

I have lived with my family in a white suburban ghetto since 1993. I regret that I bought into the moving on up suburbia lifestyle myth.…

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Commentary

Heroes and Protesters

By Dr. Lenore Daniels, PhD Editorial Board

I’m used to Americans patting themselves on the back whenever the nation is fighting the “enemy,” and, having come through the “Cold War” era, I know America always has an “enemy” or two. And the “enemies” in turn, and there are too many to list here, are not to be congratulated as people fighting for their lives under a dictatorship or fighting their own civil war.

...Negroes who spoke the truth abroad in the years of the Abolitionist struggle were bitterly denounced by the Big White Folks back home, and the U.S.…

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Commentary

Self-Determination and Dignity

By Dr. Conrad W. Worrill, PhD Columnist

Being called racist because we believe in, and will fight for, the interests of our race with undying loyalty should become the most honorable badge of courage in our community. We should get off of this defensive “trip” when we fight for the interests of our race and some other national/ethnic group calls us racist.

In order for the African Community in America to continue our fight for self-determination and dignity, it is important that we remind ourselves of the nature…

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Cartoon

Kneel Down

By Chuck Siler

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Guest Commentary

The Threeness of Serena Williams: the Challenge of Race and Gender in Sports

By Al-Tony Gilmore Guest Commentator

She ever feels her threeness, - an American, an African American, a woman; three souls, three warring ideas in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.

Arguably the most dominating and enduring champion athlete in any sport of the 21st century, Serena Williams has become an icon of class, dignity, activism, generosity,…

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