By Shirley Franklin, former Atlanta Mayor – Dan Rather supposedly posted the following regarding Donald Trump’s distracting reaction to the Broadway play Hamilton cast member response to Mike Pence who attended a recent performance. “Bullies are often thin-skinned, quick to overreact when challenged, and undone when people are no longer afraid to speak truth to […]
Who Moved The Norman Rockwell Painting In The Oval Office?
By Abigail Rockwell, jazz singer & granddaughter of Norman Rockwell – A painting by Norman Rockwell was moved in the Oval Office for the first meeting between President Obama and Mr. Trump so it would hang over Mr. Trump’s shoulder. In the painting the torch of the Statue of Liberty is being repaired by five […]
Black Women Were the Only Ones Who Tried to Save the World Tuesday Night
By Charles D. Ellison – With dust settling on the biggest political upset in U.S. history, the hazy day after is an atom-bomb-drop mess of circular firing squads, blame games and armchair quarterbacking analysis of what just happened. And while the top line analysis pretty much points to white America’s collective anti-black streak as the […]
The New Play Book
By C. Dwayne West, MG Media -If black folks are ever gonna get any real form of reparation or what can look like that pay check that Dr. King spoke about, then blacks everywhere will have to operate their agenda the exact same way Donald Trump orchestrated his campaign by taking a strong stance and […]
Black Men in America
By C. Dwayne West, MG Media – As a black man first, then as a media company, it was my privilege to have received a special invite from the Minister, and my responsibility to attend the Honorable Louis Farrakhan’s Savior Day speech yesterday at the Mosque. A lot of words were expressed and some were […]
African American Voters Have Had More Than “Enough” Of Trump’s Divisive Rhetoric
The Racism Behind Trump’s ‘Rigged Election’ Talk
By Lincoln Blades Rolling Stone – During Donald Trump’s closing remarks at last week’s debate – an event noteworthy for Trump’s refusal to say he’d accept the results of the election if he loses – the Republican nominee made his case to minority voters. “Our inner cities are a disaster. You get shot walking to […]
An Inside View of Donald Trump’s “Great America”
By Yvonne Scruggs-Leftwich, Ph.D.- Pasadena, MD – During my tenure in Governor Mario Cuomo’s Cabinet as the first African American Commissioner of New York State Housing, I had first-hand knowledge of the management and rental tactics employed by Donald Trump’s organization and how he played fast and loose with black folks’ destiny in the early […]
Deplorable In Chief
By Lucius Gantt (The Gantt Report) – It’s 2016, late October and only days before Americans go to the polls to elect a new Deplorable in Chief or the President of the United States! The names have changed and, in the case of the Democratic nominee, the gender has changed but the pre-election status and […]