By Rev. Annie Chambers, Dr. Marvin “Doc” Cheatham, Glenn L. Ross, and Sylvia Harris The AFRO recently ran an op-ed by an author who called out the Democratic Party for allegedly supporting […]
Category: Commentary
Making Summer Opportunities Available to All
By John B. King Jr. The summer is underway and I feel very blessed to say that after a very positive school year with great teachers in Montgomery County Public […]
Open Letter to Trump’s Preachers
By Frederick Douglass Haynes, III et al. Dear Colleagues in Christ, With heartbreak, yet hope, we reach out to you in the Name of our Lord and Liberator, Jesus, the […]
All Politics is Local to the Black Church
By K. A. Slayton, Sr. Most are familiar with the phrase made popular by former House Speaker Thomas “Tip” O’Neill, “all politics is local,” and whether we agree with this […]
Democrats’ Immigration Dogma is Damaging African American Communities
By Tom Broadwater If you’re a Democrat and you question the party orthodoxy on immigration, prepare to be excommunicated. That’s the grim lesson of a recent fracas involving Our Revolution, […]
Affordable Housing: A Debate over Core American Values
By Elijah Cummings Along with access to food and healthcare, every American family deserves to live in a safe and affordable home. We are not a nation that abandons our […]
Prime and Prejudice: Scrutinizing Amazon’s Practices
By Barbara Arnwine Amazon claims to be a company that values inclusion and diversity, but a recent report reveals that this façade masks a darker side, as the company profits […]
Why Trump’s Workforce Orders Are a Red Flag for Black Workers
By Tanya Wallace-Gobern Recently, Trump signed an executive order to establish a council and an advisory board in order to help address “urgent” challenges facing the U.S. workforce. Anyone who’s […]
Black Women Vote
By Arisha Hatch It’s shaping up to be the year of the Black woman voter — and it’s about time the rest of the country knows what we’ve known all […]
The Hidden Connection Between Addiction and Mental Illness
By Katie Bellamy Nearly half of all clients walking into addiction treatment have an underlying mental illness. Around 40 percent, to be exact. This equates to nearly eight million adults […]
Reimagining Civility in an Uncivil Society
By Kevin Daniels All around the country, people are attempting to make sense of the lack of civility from the White House to Main Street. According to The Nationwide Survey […]
The Battle for Control of the Supreme Court
By Elijah Cummings Responding to President Trump’s nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to be the fifth (and majority) vote on the nine-member United States Supreme Court, our nation’s foremost civil […]