Dr. Ron Walters

There are two bills in Congress now that could potentially put considerable new resources into communities with high unemployment around the country to create jobs. The first is the $118 billion bill, H. R. 4231, that is essentially designed to extend unemployment insurance and provide tax incentives to companies to create jobs. That is being…

I couldn’t believe the headlines in a recent issue of the Los Angeles Times which asked whether President Obama had responsibility for the oil spill on the Louisiana, Mississippi coastline.—“ Of course, as President, he has a responsibility to see that it is cleaned up, first by the resources of BP, the company that made…

For my money the debate over immigration reform is far too narrow. Our civil rights leaders have followed the predictable dynamic created by Hispanics who have justly mobilized to normalize their status in America.—“ We should support them because the stakes of strengthening our coalition at this moment in history will bear substantial fruit as…

Like everyone else who read Professor Skip Gates” piece in the New York Times asserting that Africans were just as responsible for slavery as Europeans, I was aghast because he is one of the most acclaimed scholars in the country and his position lends credibility to those who oppose an historical corrective for the oppression…

Rev. Al Sharpton, head of NAN, should be congratulated for pulling off a remarkable conference that contained a nationally televised Symposium of African American leaders. The main highlights of the discussion, moderated by Roland Martin of MSNBC and Radio One, were political and economic empowerment and the development of the Black family. The main point…

Get ready for the next fight as the President and the Democratic controlled Congress attempt to try and fix the mess that nearly brought down the entire economic system that has placed millions of people out of their houses, jobs, savings and etc. Republicans met with banking association representatives recently about the Financial Services Bills…

The coming resignation of Justice John Paul Stevens from the Supreme Court sets up a new fight for his successor and a question that I ” and others ” have, is will President Obama appoint someone as liberal as Stevens has become? An indication of where the President might be coming from is the comment…

Some will notice that the title of this missive comes from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.—s speech, “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence,” when he challenged the war then being waged in the name of global anti-Communism that conflicted with fighting the evils of racism, militarism and materialism at home. These evils still rage…

Speaking at the recent conference of the Veterans of the Civil Rights Movement in Jackson, Mississippi, I constantly ran into questions and comments drawing comparisons to the racial harassment faced by civil workers in the 1960s and what is occurring today. Most said there was very little comparison to the intensity of the racism faced…