Issue: 772
January 17, 2019
Color of Law
What the Us Needs to Heal is Mlk’s Radical Revolution of Values
Executive Editor
In his 1963 "I Have A Dream" speech, King said as far as black people were concerned, the US had failed to honor its promises written in the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. "Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked 'insufficient funds'. But we refuse to believe that bank of justice is bankrupt," he said.
This month marks the 90th birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr the iconic American civil rights and human rights leader who forced America to live up…
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Guest Commentary
R. Kelly and the Ongoing Disregard, Devaluation, Denigration and Degradation of Black Women
Guest Commentator
While troubling, one can likely understand why Kelly's legal team and hanger on's are acting like barbarians at the gate, rushing to defend him. He is their livelihood, meal ticket, financial repository. If he is weakened or indicted, so are their financial pocketbooks. Thus, he has to be protected at all costs, no matter how vile, untoward and unethical it is for them to do so.
Law enforcement in Chicago and Atlanta are looking into accusations that R& B singer Robert Kelly, (better known as R. Kelly) was involved in engaging in…
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Commentary
Shame and Shade in Birmingham: In Praise of Angela Davis
Editorial Board
Who rescinds an award after it has been granted for statements that were not recently made, but are a matter of record? Angela Davis has long been an outspoken activist,
If anyone deserves a civil rights award, Angela Davis certainly does. The activist and scholar has been on the front lines of the civil rights movement…
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Commentary
Martin Luther King, Jr – I’ve Been to the Mountaintop – April 3, 1968
Guest Commentator
The nation is sick. Trouble is in the land. Confusion all around. That's a strange statement. But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars.
Note: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered this speech in support of the striking sanitation workers at Mason Temple in Memphis, TN on April 3, 1968…
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Commentary
What the Right-Wing’s Smaller Government Looks Like – Solidarity America
Columnist
The right-wing's dream is rapidly turning into a national nightmare. No services for the people is truly what Trump sees as his role and he even hinted that that's what furloughed federal workers should do: tighten their belts and those of their children and wait out this difficult time. He has yet to see a difficult time, since he was born into wealth and never has had to tighten his belt.
The generations-old pipe dream of the country's right wing of a smaller government looks like it has come to pass through the mendacity and erratic behavior…
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Sharp n’ Blunt
“White Nationalist, White Supremacist, Western Civilization — How Did That Language Become Offensive?”
Columnist
I’m not in the business of offering “damage control” for this shrinking segment of America which has no conscience, no heart, and wants to know when “white supremacy” became offensive to everyone who wasn’t white and yet enduring under it?
White Citizens Council/Trump Party Grand Pooh-Bah Steve King asked this allegedly innocent and naive, if not completely disingenuous question last week and I feel compelled, if…
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Commentary
A Response to Proponents of Legalized Recreational Marijuana
Columnist
no one is considering the negative impact of widely available pot products - candies, brownies, gummies, sodas, syrup, and virtually any food or snack product - on public school students, especially those in low-income and poverty-ridden areas.
As expected, proponents of legalized recreational marijuana have responded aggressively and negatively to last week’s column which stated that this legislation would be harmful to the…
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Commentary
We Must Never Surrender Our Culture – Worrill’s World
Columnist
“If there is a major illness among African American people it is that we unceasingly honor and utilize our culture less. All great nations and people do the opposite.”
Our late, great ancestor, Dr. Asa G. Hilliard’s book, The Maroon Within Us, once again reminds us of a major problem that we, as African people…
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