By Dr. Julianne Malveaux – A recent Gallup poll found that 47 percent of all Americans oppose raising the debt ceiling. Only 19 percent support raising the ceiling past its current $12.1 trillion dollar limit. The remainder of us say we don’t know enough about the debt ceiling to have an opinion. That’s part of […]
Commentary
Has Hip Hop Changed Race Relations in America?
By Dwayne West (TBTNews Service) – Hip hop mogul Jay – Z (Shaun Carter) and urban spokesperson for President Barack Obama, recently stated that hip hop culture has done more for race relations in America the last 30 years than any other individual, genre or movement. And I concur! This of course will disturb some […]
Civil Rights?
By Raynard Jackson – As the two supposed premier civil rights groups gather this week and next for their annual conventions (the N.A.A.C.P and the National Urban League, respectively), I want to challenge their agendas and then pose a few questions for them to answer. When civil rights are discussed in the media, you never […]
Florida State Senator Caught Up With the Law – The Gantt Report
The Gantt Report By Lucius Gantt – Tears are flowing in The Gantt Report nation today as my good friend Mandy Dawson has gotten caught up in some legal hocus pocus and was recently arrested in her Daytona Beach hometown for alleged tax issues. I feel bad for Mandy because Dawson, a former state Senator […]
AIDS Drugs Offer Major Breakthrough in Fight Against Spread of HIV/AIDS But Cultural Determinants Still Crucial Within the Black Community
By Cleo Manago – The results of two recent studies known as PrEP, released on Wednesday, July 13,2011, show findings that taking a daily pill containing one or two AIDS drugs can help keep an uninfected person from catching the HIV virus. This is definitely significant news – a definite step in the right direction […]
Racing Toward The Bottom
By Julianne Malveaux – While a Department of Education program embraces “a race to the top,” our nation’s current stance toward our 14 million officially unemployed people represents nothing less than a race to the bottom. We are content to report, month after month, unemployment rates in excess of 9 percent, to use questionable language […]
Always Exploited, Always Scared
By Lucius Gantt (The Gantt Report) – I often wonder where would we be if the Biblical Moses was afraid of the Biblical Pharoah? Where would we be if David was frightened of Goliath? And where would we be if Mary and Joseph were scared to parent a child after Biblical politicians threatened to hunt […]
National Urban League Conference Makes Boston the Epicenter of War on Unemployment
By Marc Morial (To Be Equal #28) – From July 27-30, the National Urban League, in cooperation with the Urban League of Eastern Massachusetts, will bring our “Jobs Rebuild America” national conference to the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center. Urban League of Eastern Massachusetts CEO, Darnell Williams serves as host for this clarion call for […]
Pimping Ain’t Easy, But its Happening to All of Us!
By Carl D. West – Take a survey and ask so-called job creators, the riches ten percent of this country if they wouldn’t mind paying more in taxes to help stir-up the pot and contribute to easing the burden and strain on the bottom half of the country. It’s just that simple, so why do […]