By Lucius Gantt – American students should be ashamed! Young people all around the world are rising up against government and corporate exploitation. And what are American students doing today? Sitting on their behinds, hoping for the best, playing cards and flunking all of their tests! The world’s economic crisis was rooted in the United […]
Some Want Jobs for Christmas
By Julianne Malveaux – In the weeks since the “shellacking” of the November 2 election, there has been much talk that the economy will turn around and, indeed, is on the mend. The indicators are better, both pundits and experts have been saying. The recession is over, according to these indicators, and it is unlikely […]
Black Republicans And The Color Line
By Raynard Jackson – Once again race has reared its ugly head with a Republican elected official. But, this time in a more subtle way. Incoming Republican congressman, Tim Scott has decided not to join the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) in January. While I don’t necessarily have a problem with that, I am viscerally embarrassed […]
America: America: Why R Your Peeps So Dum?
This is a great article at Alternet.org. I ask a similar question daily – Can we get any dumber? Dumb is like a disease these days. When people with limited knowledge like Sarah Palin are allowed to run for vice president of the United States of America it sends a message to young people that […]
Mayor Kasim Reed, Lisa Rayam, and Vandarray party with over 1500 senior citizens of Atlanta
Atlanta, GA – Over 1500 Atlanta area senior citizens dressed in their Sunday Best enjoyed a little opera, gospel, square dancing, gifts and a good turkey dinner, during SCLC/Women’s Organizational Movement for Equality Now’s (SCLC/WOMEN) 31st annual Senior’s Christmas Party last week at the Georgia International Convention Center in College Park. The party got live […]
Auburn’s Cameron Newton Saga—Reggie Bush Part II?
By Chuck Hobbs, Esquire – The NCAA’s ruling in the Cameron Newton fiasco strikes me as odd in two ways. The first is the fact that Newton, the Auburn quarterback who has sliced defenses on the ground and in the air in his first year since transferring from a junior college, has been declared eligible […]
Michael Vick—From Vick-tim to Vick-tory
By Raynard Jackson – Am I the only one who is sick and tired of the media coverage of NFL quarterback Michael Vick—post incarceration? Last July I wrote a column titled, “Michael Is A Vick-tim.” I discussed Vick’s going to jail for nearly two years for killing a couple of dogs. He has served his […]
The Power of Thought and How It Reforms Reality
By H. Lewis Smith – “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” (John 1:1) “And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.”(Genesis 1:3) “And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry […]