Category: Commentary

George H. Lambert, Jr. In the year since Michael Brown was killed in Ferguson, MO, the national conversation on race has been mostly about Black men. Indeed, the vast majority of stories about police violence are about young Black men dying at the hands of (mostly) white police officers. But Sandra Bland’s mysterious, troubling death […]

Shalita O’Neale and Susan Emfinger (Courtesy Photo fosteringchangenetwork.com) Ask anyone in child welfare about foster youth aging out of the foster care system and you’re sure to hear about everything from high rates of incarceration, early parenting, homelessness, unemployment and discussion about mental health issues. There are approximately 6,000 children in Maryland’s foster care system.  […]

Zach Wood Throughout President Barack Obama’s six and a half years in office, despite inheriting the worst economy since the great depression, facing unprincipled insurgent resistance from Republicans in Congress, and having to deal with the turbulent climate of race relations as the nation’s first Black president, the President has achieved undeniable success: passage of […]

Dr. E. Faye Williams Washington, DC –Many of us woke up this morning (August 16, 2015) to the news that Julian Bond, a hero who was at the forefront of the civil rights movement, had died. Julian was only 75 years old, and as many of us approach that number, we are especially saddened because […]

Dr. E. Faye Williams, Esq., President of the National Congress of Black Women (Courtesy Photo) TriceEdney – As I write this, the United States is only hours away from raising our flag over our embassy in Havana, Cuba, formally re-establishing diplomatic relations with the Cuban government.  Re-establishment of diplomatic relations with Cuba follows the well-publicized, […]

Elijah Cummings Last week, as our nation marked the 50th Anniversary of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, I recalled our struggles here in Baltimore during that earlier time when I was young. I remembered how Juanita Jackson Mitchell, Esq., of the Baltimore NAACP taught the young people of my South Baltimore neighborhood that we had […]

Rika Tyler and T-Dubb-O Some may say much has changed since our grandparents were boycotting in the streets of the U.S. during the Civil Rights era. Some new laws and policies did in fact give Black people some of the same civil liberties as other citizens in this country. However, we are still being mentally […]

George H. Lambert, Jr Charleston, SC, is one of America’s most beautiful cities, but on June 29th I couldn’t see the beauty, because the pain cloaked it so thoroughly. The day before, during a conference call of the leadership of the Urban League Movement, I had learned that one of the nine victims of the […]