Utah Congresswoman-Elect Mia Love. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer) Mia Love made history when she became the first Black woman to be elected to Congress as a Republican. Representing Utah’s 4th District, […]
Category: Editorial
Who lost Maryland?
What happened? Democrat Anthony G. Brown managed to lose the race for governorship in a solidly Democratic bastion like Maryland to his Republican opponent Larry Hogan even though heavy hitters […]
Happy Holidays from the AFRO
Avis Thomas-Lester AFRO Executive Editor The best gift you ever received: I wanted to be a newspaper woman since I was a little girl. For Christmas when I was 11, […]
‘Program Duplication’ At Last- -Acknowledged
The U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland on Oct. 7, rendered its long awaited decision in the Historical Black College & University (HBCU) Equality Lawsuit. This is the […]
In a Shooting Rampage, D.C. Became a Small, Tightly-Knit Family
Monday’s shooting rampage at the Navy Yard, when 13 people and the alleged gunman, Aaron Alexis of Ft. Worth, Texas, were killed, was yet another a stark and painful reminder […]
Former D.C. Councilman Frank Smith Rallies for D.C. Statehood
Now what? Now that the marching is over, the fond memories relived and a king’s dream revived, how to generate and sustain a renewed movement for justice, jobs and freedom? […]
Sharing the Freedom Soapbox with D.C. Statehood
When she was a couple of months shy of 16, Lea Adams ’s father, Joel, a rare African American who carried the rank of U.S. Army colonel, took her to […]
Entertaining — but Inaccurate– Black History Assailed
“I’m just an old historian who only wants one thing, the truth,” said preeminent African and African American historian Carroll “CR” Gibbs, “fussing” with a somewhat heavy heart. I couldn’t […]
Two Black Fathers Making a Stand Against Violence
From the statehouses of Florida and North Carolina to the highways, streets, drives, boulevards, ways, courts and other roadways named after Dr. Martin Luther King, this summer has witnessed a […]
Alexandria’s Mandela
Whatever you do, “don’t even think about going down that road of comparing me to Nelson Mandela,” says a humble Ferdinand T. Day, a lifelong civil rights advocate, even if […]
Making Ends Meet on Minimum Wages
Is it any wonder that hundreds of fast food workers across the country this week are walking out and striking at their jobs demanding to form a union and to […]
Did the Stark Signs Read,’Am I Next?’ Or ‘I Am Next”
Had to do a dyslexic double-take after seeing the photo of three little black boys holding up sings with that gut-wrenching Tupac lyric, “Am I Next,” during a weekend protest […]