Category: OPINION

Cathy Allen A few years ago, I was doing some research on how Maryland was leading the charge when it came to sustainable building practices and stumbled across millions of dollars in the form of: grants, loans, tax incentives, tax waivers and rebates from federal, state and local agencies for property owners and home buyers […]

Dr. Monique Rainford As a Black person living in America and a woman of faith, I am proud of the role that the church still plays in the African American community.  It has been the backbone of our community for hundreds of years, and is deeply interwoven into the fabric of many of our lives. […]

Dr. E. Faye Williams (Trice-Edney) Our country is currently convulsing over issues of diversity and race.  Police departments from Baltimore to Minneapolis view diversity hiring as the antidote to anti-Black police brutality.  Last year, Hollywood scrambled to increase diversity among Academy Award presenters after realizing its nominees were mainly white.  (Again!) Today, a deeply divided United […]

Elijah Cummings When I was named as Chair of the National Democratic Party’s 15-person Platform Drafting Committee, there were some who wondered whether we would be able to bring together the strong and principled leaders who would be representing Secretary Clinton, Senator Sanders and the Democratic Party as a whole. For my own part, however, […]

John R. Hawkins III One of my favorite days of observation is Father’s Day. No, it is not because I am a father and grandfather, and I get to do anything my heart desires. I think Father’s Day is so important to me because it recognizes the single most important duty and concern of any […]

I’ve always wanted to be a good writer but no matter how hard I practiced or read many writing books/articles, my writing never improved. It wasn’t that I didn’t understand the material, I just needed guidance and was afraid to ask. You may say it’s just as simple as asking for help, but I didn’t […]

Laura W. Murphy You learn a lot about the character of an organization when things go wrong. For the team at Airbnb, hearing the outcry from African American travelers who were denied lodging because of discrimination was one of these moments. I know, because I met with them in San Francisco in early June to […]

George E. Curry After last week’s column on how the major presidential candidates snubbed organizers of this year’s National Black Political Convention in Gary, Ind., I received quite a few emails asking: What can we do about it?  For anyone who may have missed the column, I noted that in an ultimate show of disrespect, […]

Lee A. Daniels When will the leadership of the Republican Party do their duty to the nation and disavow the candidacy of the wannabe dictator known as Donald Trump?  That question has in fact been looming over them for months, every since he used all the tricks of demagoguery to destroy the supposed “deep bench” […]

Marian Wright Edelman “This massacre is therefore a further reminder of how easy it is for someone to get their hands on a weapon that lets them shoot people in a school, or in a house of worship, or a movie theater, or in a nightclub. And we have to decide if that’s the kind of […]

Dr. E. Faye Williams TriceEdney – If one accepts the fact that there’s no excuse or rationale for abject hatred that promotes or justifies the murder of any human being, then the hate-based murder of 49 innocent souls in Orlando is incomprehensible.  That massacre, and others, represents a stain on our national consciousness and blight on […]

Police escort the hearse carrying the body of Muhammad Ali as it passes through the crowded street in front of his boyhood home during his funeral procession Friday, June 10, 2016, in Louisville, Ky. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey) Many of the articles and columns I’ve read about Muhammad Ali’s legacy were written by boxing aficionados who […]