What was known to me as the world’s most elusive game of “Hide and Seek” has now come to an end. On Sunday May 1st, President Barack Obama declared “Osama Bin Laden a murderer of thousands is dead” as people here and abroad began to celebrate the death of the mastermind behind the 9/11 terrorist […]
Commentary
Julianne Malveaux: Women in prison – what about the children?
By Julianne Malveaux – There are more than 200,000 women who are currently incarcerated, 115,000 in federal or state prisons and 99,000 in local jails. Nearly one million women are on probation — representing 26 percent of those on probation; 98,000 are on parole. Women’s incarceration has grown by more than 800 percent in the […]
Black America’s Survival: Hinging on Group Success vs Individual Success
In spite of the numerous blatant and subliminal social obstacles that the Black community has faced in the past and continues to face, a remarkable number of African Americans have risen to highly-esteemed statuses in the professions, arts, letters, professional sports and the entertainment field in the last 100 years. Within the past 10 years, […]
Ben Laden Down, Gadaffi Ducked
By Lucius Gantt – President Barack Obama has announced that Osama Ben Laden was killed by Navy Seals in an attack on a Pakistani mansion compound after following a Ben Laden courier to the million dollar home and waiting for days and months until the terrorist leader surfaced and could be shot. Ben Laden’s death […]
Misplaced Priorities in the Age of Carnival Barkers
By Deven D. Anderson – Yes, it is true President Barack Obama was born here in the United States of America. Shall I repeat for those who didn’t hear it for the first, second, or fifty-leventh time? This morning President Barack Obama confirmed and presented evidence to solve one of the greatest mysteries in American […]
Affirmative Action of a Different Kind
By Chuck Hobbs, Esq – Barely minutes after President Obama trumped Donald Trump on the idiotic “Birther” issue, Trump side-stepped his failure by asking to see President Obama’s undergraduate grades from Columbia and Harvard Law School. For Obama supporters, before getting too outraged please consider that such has been a fair area of inquiry before, […]
Trumped – Donald Trump Hijacked by his Own Ego
By Raynard Jackson – When Donald Trump began to make public overtures about his possible interest in running for president of the U.S., I thought he could be a substantive wild card in the race. I thought Trump could be a viable candidate because he does have a successful track record as a businessman. During […]
Trump Employing “Birther” Issue as a Weapon of Mass Distraction
By Marc H. Morial (To Be Equal#17) – A recent CBS/New York Times poll found that 25 percent of Americans and 45 percent of registered Republican voters believe that President Obama was not born in the United States. Another 22 percent of Republican voters say they don’t know. For the record, President Obama was born […]
Can Africa Make The Cut
Raynard Jackson – Whenever the U.S. government enters into a state of fiscal austerity, politicians always look for budget cuts from programs they deem to be less important or have little or no constituency. Foreign policy budgets, especially those directed towards Africa seem to always show up near the top of that list. The left […]