WASHINGTON D.C. – Melanie L. Campbell, President & CEO of the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation (NCBCP) and Convener of the Black Women’s Roundtable (BWR), issued the following statement regarding the racially-motivated killing of ten innocent people in Buffalo, NY on May 14th: “Our hearts, prayers, and sincere condolences go out to the family […]
Puppets and Pirates in Protest Clothing – Commentary By Lucius Gantt
(The Gantt Report) – About a month or so ago, I was in Tallahassee, Florida to take care of some banking business and to visit a few friends. I was sitting on the porch at Perk’s Bonding Agency waiting on my friend Billy Perkins who was taking a phone call inside his office. Suddenly, a […]
Klan-picked Law Enforcers – Commentary by Lucius Gantt
(The Gantt Report) – Once upon a time in America, one white man with a pot belly like Donald Trump wearing a white Colonel Sanders suit could control 15 strong, muscular and athletic Black slaves with a switch. Nowadays, it takes two, three, four or more law enforcers to apprehend, choke or shoot an unarmed […]
Rev. Joseph E. Lowery, Cheryl Lowery, and Idil Hussein Comment on Charlottesville March
Atlanta, GA – Joseph and Evelyn Lowery Institute for Justice & Human Rights issued the following statement on the violent attack by white supremacists in Charlottesville, VA: “Our hearts and prayers go out to the families of brave foot soldier, Heather Heye, and all of the victims of the Charlottesville car attack as well as […]
President of Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, Russell Moore, Breaks the Silence on Donald Trump
“A White Church No More” by Russell Moore (NYTimes.com) – Years ago, members of a Southern Baptist church in suburban Birmingham, Ala., who couldn’t figure out why their church was in decline asked a friend of mine for advice. The area had been majority white during the violent years of Jim Crow. While civil rights […]
