Category: Commentary

George H. Lambert It isn’t hard to find food in low-income urban neighborhoods. For a couple of bucks, you can feast on pizza, wings, burgers, buns or fries, and wash it down with 32-64 ounces of carbonated sugar water. The food that poor people can afford in the United States leaves a lot to be […]

James Clingman The Democrat debate was nothing short of embarrassing, insulting, and dismissive of Black people. While the men did not wear the traditional red and blue ties, thank God, the two and a half hour rhetorical exercise was an in-your-face thumbing of the nose at Black voters. How much more proof do we need […]

George E. Curry The first debate among Democrats seeking to succeed Barack Obama as president may have been the first time a group of national politicians bragged on television about getting a failing grade.  Speaking in the third person, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders began the show-and-tell by saying in reply to a question from moderator […]

Marquesa LaDawn Kim Zolciak fired by DWTS? The rumor mill is brewing about Kim’s departure from DWTS. Yes, she had a mini-stroke, but there are rules. If a contestant is injured, she or he must leave the show. Kim cancelled at the last minute during a previous season, forcing producers to find a replacement and […]

Herb Boyd NEW YORK – Since I have to teach on Saturdays at the City College of New York it was not possible for me to attend the 20th anniversary of the Million Man March in the nation’s capital.  I doubt if I would have gone under better circumstances because I have “been there, done […]

Alma Gill A Wedding Surprise Dear Alma, I’m so embarrassed. I feel just terrible. My cousin who still lives in the old neighborhood where we grew up asked me to help out with a wedding. She needed some extra hands at the reception. It was no biggie, I had done it before, so I said […]

Willie Jolley Rabbi Daniel Lapin is an Orthodox Jewish Rabbi, who shares wealth-building principles directly from the Bible. He is an acclaimed author, speaker, radio talk show host and with his wife, Susan, hosts a daily television show. He is known worldwide as America’s Rabbi, a noted rabbinic scholar.  He’s nationally in demand for his […]

James Clingman This is a follow up to an article I wrote several years ago. It reemphasizes the importance of action over rhetoric, and as we consider this particular time in history and all the financial and intellectual resources among Black people in America, I figure it’s time to revisit the concept of “potential.”  Have […]

Lee A. Daniels Remember when the conventional wisdom was that Jeb Bush was “the smart one” of the Bush brothers and would effortlessly steamroller his competitors on the way to 2016? Well, the political outsiders Donald Trump, Ben Carson and Carly Fiorina have all crashed the GOP establishment’s big dance, turning those predictions into fodder […]

George E. Curry It’s time to give Minister Louis Farrakhan credit. When he issues a call for people to join him in the nation’s capital, Blacks show up. At least a million showed up for the Million Man March 20 years ago and at least two-thirds as many showed up for Saturday’s Justice or Else […]

TriceEdney— If you were born between 1930 and 1960, you may remember that the Western Genre, or as it was more commonly called, the “Cowboy  Movie,” was a favored theatrical production of the times.  The genre even overlapped into performance radio and television. In fact, the television series “Gunsmoke” stands as the longest-running (20 years) […]

Charly Carter It’s 2015 and Baltimoreans still don’t have access to high-speed Internet. Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake recently issued the Smarter City Task Force Broadband Report, detailing how the city should move ahead in developing high speed Internet access. She also hired Jason Hardebeck as a part-time contractual broadband coordinator for the city. While these are […]