Has Black America Lost It’s Backbone?
By H. Lewis Smith – All by-products of African-American ingenuity, Negro spirituals, blues and jazz were created to help African Americans maintain a sense of internal calmness and hope during strife; cultivate, embrace and express individuality; and serve as living connections to and trophies of cultural history, knowledge and heritage. In spite of all the […]
Crazy Like A Cat – The Gantt Report
By Lucius Gantt – I love animals but I don’t really like pets. Only animals in my house are fish that live in aquariums. My dogs and cats are always outside unless the temperature gets way below freezing. Both my dogs and cats have to work to stay around me. My dogs keep people in […]
Black Academic Stars Bridging the So-Called Achievement Gap
by Chuck Hobbs, Esquire – Anyone who spends more than 30 minutes with me will soon learn that I am a staunch supporter of the nation’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities. For over a century and a half on campuses throughout the South and East Coast, these colleges have served as incubators for individuals, who […]
Humorless Muslims and Annoying Christians
by Joseph C. Phillips – I am curious to see what happens when President Obama invites Molly Norris to the White House for a beer. Oh, Wait…Molly Norris can’t go to the White House for beer because Molly Norris no longer exists; any trace of her has been wiped clean. Norris, a Seattle cartoonist, was […]
Young, Gifted and Poor
by Julianne Malveaux – – The 2009 poverty numbers were released last week, and things are a lot worse than many economists thought they would be. The poverty rate jumped up a full percentage point, from 13.2 to 14.3 percent. This means that one in seven Americans live in poverty, 4 million more than a […]
Rahm Emanuel to End Controversial Tenure as White House Chief of Staff
By Peter Nicholas, Tribune Washington Bureau — A president’s chief of staff tends to be discreet, low-key and anonymous. Rahm Emanuel was none of these. He drove his staff with warlike intensity and a message that failure was unacceptable. During the past 20 months Emanuel insulted allies. Sparred with colleagues. Practiced an arm-twisting, old-school politics […]