Category: OPINION

About this time last year, I found out the devastating news that my husband had stage 4 cancer. Although he is recovering now, I could still use a program like family and medical leave even this year. It would have given me the peace of mind, when I needed it most, to sustain my small […]

TriceEdney – In my first year of law school, I learned about the case, Loving v. Virginia.  Having grown up in the south, the case didn’t surprise me.  A three-tiered system was ‘normal’ in my home state of Louisiana.  We had Black people, white people and mulattoes.  Each rarely married outside of their own group.  […]

Understandably, both the press and the American public have focused our attention as voters this year on the campaigns to succeed Barack Obama as President of the United States.  Yet, the outcome of the parallel struggle for majority control of the United States Senate will have comparable significance in the future course of our lives. […]

Voting is a right Blacks gained through blood, sweat, and tears since 1869.  This was the year that Black men were given the right to vote.  Plessey v. Ferguson, the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that legalized “separate but equal laws” severely limited Black voting Dr. Ken Morgan The post WWII era to the present is […]

For a country that embraces a belief in second chances, America doesn’t do a very good job in extending the same fair chances to people with felony records. Approximately 24 million Americans have a felony conviction and 1 in 12 adult Americans have a felony conviction. They will, of course, carry the stigma and bear […]

Dr. E. Faye Williams TriceEdney — I viewed the final 2016 presidential debate with great interest.  It held few surprises, but served to confirm my evaluation of Donald Trump as an overgrown, petulant child-like man.  Sadly, his year-plus emersion in the political process has not reformed his juvenile instincts to tear down that which he […]

Recently we were moved by Zianna Oliphant — a brave young girl who spoke to the Charlotte City Council after the death of Keith Lamont Scott: “We are Black people and we shouldn’t have to feel like this. We shouldn’t have to protest because ya’ll are treating us wrong.” That is courage in the face […]

Over the past year, I have been active with seniors presenting hands-on environmental projects at nursing and assisted living facilities.  I know as an environmental educator, working with the soil through gardening exercises promotes all over good health for people and the environment. In today’s society, we as humans have detached ourselves from nature.  As […]

TriceEdney — Every woman and every Black person in this country must be asking, “What’s Going On?”  Forty-three times, white men have held dominance in consideration and representation for the position of President of the United States.  With two elections, President Barack Obama has shattered that stereotypical image of the “elderly, White male president” and, as […]

Whether you go to or went to a historically Black college or university their future and state of affairs is meaningful to you. You probably agree with this statement, however, the question I’m asking is do either of the main party presidential candidates recognize the importance of HBCUs, care about their viability and have plans […]

Last week, I was honored to deliver the Congressional Black Caucus’ televised Message to America: Protecting our Progress at the Ballot Box. It was a message that deserves repeating again and again. Elijah Cummings (Courtesy Photo/Facebook For more than four decades, the CBC has fought to protect and expand the right to vote for all […]

In 1915, President Woodrow Wilson hosted a special White House screening of D.W. Griffith’s “The Birth of a Nation,” a film based on The Clansman, by Wilson’s friend Thomas Dixon. The film was a racial marker of the time – it portrayed Black politicians as drunken buffoons and set the stage for the Ku Klux […]