Category: Commentary

Paul Comfort Beginning June 20, Baltimore-area residents will have a new way to get around town with bus routes that will greatly improve suburb-to-suburb connectivity – and link Baltimore residents to jobs and life’s other opportunities. As part of BaltimoreLink – the plan to transform transit in the region – the MTA is introducing three […]

Cathy Allen Did you know that the House Delegates and Senate elected officials are graded on their stance of environmental issues in Maryland? The Maryland League of Conservation Voters (LCV) is a state-wide, nonpartisan organization that uses political action and education to protect our air, land and water. LCV holds elected officials accountable through a […]

Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. Residents in the District of Columbia voted in the last primary on Tuesday. Bernie Sanders vows to make the case to superdelegates that he is the best choice to take on Donald Trump, as he has every right to do.  The media has already dubbed Hillary Clinton the presumptive nominee. She […]

Marian Wright Edelman “If not for the teachers that I had at PS 276 in Canarsie and Mark Twain Junior High School in Coney Island, New York, I would not be alive today. Maybe I’d be in jail today. But those teachers, they chose to invest in me and to see hope and possibility.” -Secretary […]

George E. Curry Last weekend was supposed to be a remix of the 1972 National Black Political Convention in Gary, Ind. Richard G. Hatcher, who became the first Black mayor of Gary in 1968; Newark, N.J. Mayor Ras J. Baraka, the son of the late poet/activist Amira Baraka, one of the original organizers; and Tuskegee, […]

John R. Hawkins III What comes to mind when you hear the phrase “policing in our community?” I admit the term “…our communities” is a nebulous term in that African American communities vary from the most affluent to the absolute least affluent and under-served. Given the diversity of our communities, one issue of importance and […]

Congressman Elijah Cummings The presidential and congressional election campaigns this year are not the only arenas in which President Obama’s healthcare legacy is at stake.  Here in Baltimore and across America, our movement to expand access to high-quality, affordable healthcare for every American continues — and we each have an important part to play. Three […]

Dr. Ken Morgan I first met Muhammad Ali when I was a 23-year-old newly minted 6’7’student athlete graduate of Temple University.  He visited the matinee performance of the off-Broadway Buck White play at the Locust Theatre in Philly circa 1968.  He was in the “City of Brotherly Love” to preview a part he was going […]

Lee A. Daniels The danger that Donald Trump, practitioner of questionable business practices, inveterate bully, racist, sexist, demagogue and the Republican Party’s presumptive nominee for president of the United States, presents to American society was never more evident than in how he behaved last week amid a flurry of negative news stories.  The result was […]

George E. Curry I know it’s extremely difficult, but if you can, ditch the memories of Muhammad Ali showing up uninvited at Sonny Liston’s training camp, announcing that he was going bear hunting. Put aside his boasts of being the greatest of alllll-timmmme. Scratch the images of the “Ali Shuffle” and his patented rope-a-dope.  Ali’s […]

Dr. E. Faye Williams TriceEdney – Since his shooting at the Cincinnati Zoo on May 28, the death of Harambe, a seventeen-year-old male, western lowland silverback gorilla, has created a firestorm of controversy in contemporary “culture wars.”  There has been considerable second-guessing and “Monday morning quarterbacking” concerning the decision to shoot theanimal and, even worse, there […]