Dr. Ron Walters

There never has been a time when Black folks in America did not have an agenda, from when we tried to avoid captivity in Africa to be sent here, to when we were in the holes of slave ships, or on plantations planning ways to survive and to escape, or those of us today still…

Now we have the Coffee Party which I suppose is a liberal counterpart to the Tea Party that emerged in the Washington, DC area by folks led by Annabel Park a documentary film maker who was horrified by the ugly, menacing and anti-government spirit of the Tea Party crowd that emerged to disrupt the flow…

As the proud graduate of an Historically Black University and having worked in one for most of my academic career, I approve of President Barack Obama having broken his pledge not to govern by race or ethnicity just in time to increase spending for HBCUs. These institutions are still vitally relevant to the production of…

Recent public opinion polls are being used to marry the Obama administration to the failure of government. For example, a recent CNN poll (Feb 12-15) expresses the sentiment of 86% of those polled that “government is broken.” It should go without saying that CNN has been pushing this slogan for several weeks and now, a…

My friend George Curry reminded me of something in his article on “Being True to Black Historymakers” when he said that in this year when we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Greensboro Sit-in that we must remember “they were not alone.”— It is true that these students were not alone, because in August of…

Recently, Dorothy Height of the National Congress of Negro Women, Rev. Al Sharpton of the National Action Network, Ben Jealous of the NAACP, and Marc Morial of the National Urban League, wrote President Barack Obama asking for a meeting about the state of Black employment and with the ensuing invitation, all but Height went to…

Following the Tea Party phenomenon and watching its recent convention, it was interesting to see media folks and Tea Party representatives struggle with the question of why so few blacks were there. This is not a new thing, since the philosophical base of the Republican party has been the Conservative movement for some time and…

In President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address he did, as expected, pivot sharply toward addressing the economy in a pointed, feisty, significant display of pushback to critics and the Republican establishment that his programs have not worked. But two things worry me about his strategy where the state of black America is concerned.…

The Supreme Court, in their recent decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, may have complicated the growth of black elected officials by their 5-4 conservative majority giving corporations carte blanche authority to directly spend money in elections.—“ By deciding that corporations have First Amendment rights to spend money in elections to voice their…