Dr. Anthony Asadullah Samad, PhD

The benchmarks in which we in America seek to establish “acceptance” in the labor force generally comes without much fanfare. New hires commonly have 90 day, sometimes-six month, probation periods that affirm ones competency and synergetic fit in the workplace. Now, we’ve seen probation periods before. We generally see them come and go. But never…

The City of Los Angeles is about to unveil its brand new “state of the art” world-class headquarters for what it considers its world-class law enforcement agency. Just know there’s one too many “world-class” attributes in that last sentence, and given the latest controversy—the public should decide where the “world-class” attribute should actually go. A…

The United States has always been a political economy, requiring government regulation of its finance and money markets, and using government stimulation of its labor force. “Free Market” enterprise is based on the notion that open markets and the competition derived from competing ideas for consumer patronage will create a market balance (equilibrium) that will…

The death of preeminent historian and race scholar, John Hope Franklin, and his life long contribution to helping America understand the legacies of slavery and racial vestiges that have been carried forward that still makes race the most entrenched socio-economic-political issue of our society. John Hope Franklin’s life’s work was to reassemble the fragmented history…

The tragedy of four police officers being shot on a routine traffic stop in Oakland, California, over the weekend, offered a set of circumstances that we all must face up to at some point in our society. Four people died (three officers) and a fourth officer is on life support, and condolences go out to…

The “Audacity Of Greed” should be the title of President Obama’s next book. Never could he have imagined how tough getting out of an economic recession (borderline depression) when he signed up for the presidency. He knew the job was tough when he took it, he just didn’t know that greed would continue to trump…

The passing of Los Angeles Deputy Chief of Police, Kenny Garner, last week has left a stunned community pondering the question, “Who do we call now, when we want answers from LAPD?” Kenny Garner was a friend to me, the community and most he met, and he had the hardest job of anyone in the…

The Republican Party put all its business in the streets this past week as talk radio rhetorician, Rush Limbaugh, went on the offensive (even more than he’s been on the offensive since Obama has taken office) at the Conservative Party Convention this past weekend. Stating that he wanted to see President Obama fail, and that…