We must redouble our multi-pronged efforts to investigate foreign interference in the 2016 presidential election and any subsequent actions undertaken by those in power to derail those investigations. At the […]
Category: Commentary
Trump’s Travel Ban and American History
There has been something missing from the debate over the Trump administration’s executive orders which are ostensibly country-targeted bans but obviously a Muslim ban. As the furor rages, especially after […]
NAACP Denounces Recent Wave of Vandalism Against African-Americans
The NAACP issued the following statement after a noose was found May 31, at the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. and after NBA star […]
Melissa Harris-Perry’s Misguided Assault On Legacy Civil Rights Organizations
Melissa Harris-Perry published a thought-provoking article in the New York Times this morning entitled “How to Save the N.A.A.C.P. From Irrelevance.” I like and respect Melissa Harris-Perry, but for her […]
NAACP INDISPENSIBLE: CEO INVALUABLE
TriceEdney — Black people have fared best when our collective interests and goals are held paramount. We’ve made the greatest headway when our assumed leaders are guided by principles of […]
Honoring Second Lieutenant Collins on the Senate Floor
U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen spoke on the Senate floor to honor the life of 2nd Lt. Richard Wilbur Collins III, who was murdered at the University of Maryland May […]
The District’s 50/50 Dilemma
With 50 percent of the District of Columbia’s returning citizens unemployed and 50 percent of returning citizens back in prison within three years, the link between unemployment and recidivism becomes […]
Students Are Losing in Wave of D.C. Reforms
Recent news articles highlighting the large number of District public school teachers leaving the profession early expose how DCPS principals and teachers are pressured to pass failing students to boost […]
Trump: A Bad Episode of “Maury”
Do you ever have the feeling we’re watching a political version of the “Maury Show?” (CanStock Photo) You know the show: some dumb-ass guy who apparently has no idea what […]
TRUMP AGAIN!
TriceEdney—I’m among those who really would like to move on to something bigger and better than what we hear daily on the news—but, as a lawyer, I know that there’s […]
Defending the Soul of our Democracy
Along with millions of other Americans, I was justifiably alarmed by President Donald Trump’s firing of FBI Director James Comey, Jr., in the midst of the Bureau’s investigation of the […]
Remembrances: Baltimore’s Erla Marie McKinnon
Erla said in her beautiful Virginia soft southern drawl recently, “Ken, I want to be at home and go out the door feet first when I die.” Mission accomplished. Erla […]