Dr. Anthony Asadullah Samad, PhD

Now that the national debt ceiling has been raised, and the country has averted economic catastrophe, it really is necessary to process and analyze what a small band of obstructionists have put the nation through. This debt ceiling debate, usually a pro forma act of Congress, took on a political – largely ideological – tone…

The California Citizens Redistricting Commission (CCRC) will be voting to release the final iteration of the redistricting maps this week. These maps are supposed to reflect the state’s demographic shifts in the state’s population after the reapportionment of state and congressional legislative seats following the 2010 Census. As far as the congressional seats go, the…

Before I start this rant (and it’s gonna be a RANT)…I want to say one thing; Curt Flood deserves to be in Major League Baseball’s Hall of Fame. If you come away with nothing else in this commentary, I want you to come away with the man that challenged major league baseball’s reserve clause made…

2) with unemployment already between 24% and 40% (depending who’s numbers you cite), where are they going to work? Early parolees and probationers must find work in a relatively short time (usually 30 days, although many aren’t released until they can prove they have work). But the biggest dilemma Los Angeles County has is who…

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The only thing that we all know for sure is that relevant is REAL. We talk about “keepin’ it real” but keeping it real is only important if it is relevant to what we’re talk in about or what we’re trying to resolve. The Republican and Tea Party candidates for President got stage this week…

The end of a staple in American pop culture culminated last week with the Oprah Winfrey show calling it a day. After 25 years, pop culture icon, Oprah Winfrey, decided to end her daily talk show and concentrate on her cable channel, the OWN (Oprah Winfrey) network. It wasn’t just the end of a talk…

The Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority did its usual “rope-a-dope” with the black community last week on the most important infrastructure investment of the next 100 years. Several things came into crystal clear reality; Very rarely is the Los Angeles black community in complete agreement. Take a picture of this moment…it will last longer. The…