Dr. Anthony Asadullah Samad, PhD

The events of the day have caused us to confuse what is real and what is important. It seems some people frame what’s important to them and forget what’s important to us all. There are things going on in “our” community that are significant and the people that say they “speak” for “us” or “represent”…

Twenty years ago this week, the world heard an announcement that we all thought was the end of the world for a young man who had changed the world through his gift of playing basketball. Earvin “Magic” Johnson had entertained us for the previous twelve years by putting a fledgling league on his shoulders, and…

It’s interesting that the conflictions of society are the real events of the day. Reality is playing out right in front of our eyes. What America thinks is “reality,” these days, is not really reality…it’s entertainment. This new entertainment genre is the dominant genre on television. We love to see people eat things and get…

The monument to 20th Century social change leader, and some say 20th Century Prophet, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was finally dedicated on the National Mall. On the 16th Anniversary of the Million Man March, the President of the United States reminded us that King’s struggle for social change was a protracted one.…

The Republican Party, in all its iterations, held its breath this week in anticipation that New Jersey Governor, Chris Christie, would enter the race for the 2012 Presidential Election. Christie, after taking conservatives to the brink of hope, has decided not to run. So, the search continues to try to find somebody, anybody, who can…

This time last week, the world was in shock that the United States of America had put to death Troy Davis, a man convicted of killing a Georgia cop in 1989. Troy Davis maintained his innocence the entire 22 years he was on death row. America maintains a mentality that once convicted – innocence no…

The President did it. He finally called out the rich to share in the nation’s pain. Introducing his debt reduction plan, he put the proverbial “gun” right on Congress, right before the 2012 elections. Now let them go out and defend the rich while the rest of America is hurting. The politics of shared sacrifice…

After the August jobs report came in showing the economy flatlining (at least for a month) on new jobs, President Obama’s jobs plan is coming right on time. Lazy @ss Congress is back at work, after a summer of political gamesmanship, and we will now see if all the “big talk” will turn into action.…

This is the debate our community was waiting to have. It is a “must have.” We will discover everybody’s motives as this conversation shakes out. There are those who claim they’re with Obama, and just want him to “do something” to help black people. Others claim they’re with Obama, and just want to “push him”…