How are you surviving this heat wave? Pool parties are all the coolest thing in D.C. right now and celebrities have joined in on the trend. Also, summer is the […]
Author Archives: Larry S. Gibson
Olympic 100m Champ Tests Positive For Painkillers
KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Olympic and world 100-meter champion Shelly-Ann Fraser has been provisionally suspended by the IAAF after a positive test for a painkiller she claims she took to […]
How the mass incarceration of black men hurts black women
IMAGINE that the world consists of 20 men and 20 women, all of them heterosexual and in search of a mate. Since the numbers are even, everyone can find a […]
Rev. Jesse Jackson … Health Care is a Fundamental Right: No Repeal and Replace
“Repeal and replace” has become the battle cry of Sarah Palin and the bulk of Republican Senators after the passage of comprehensive health care reform. They’re rousing fears, threatening those […]
Peter Franchot … Tax Deadline’s Approach is No Reason to Panic
Every year around this time, fear and panic begin to set in across the state for thousands of Marylanders, who realize that the tax deadline is approaching and they have […]
Tod Ewing … A New Look at the Black/White Divide
We are stuck, been stuck and will remain stuck if we don’t reframe the challenge and embrace a new perspective. I offer one that is as old as it is […]
Elijah Cummings…A Good and Faithful Servant
Recently, I lost a good friend who always encouraged me by his wisdom and his example. The Rev. David Crump excelled in his mastery of that most valuable kind of […]