Category: OPINION

Nicholette Smith-Bligen Potomac Preparatory Public Charter School (Potomac Prep) has made great strides improving the academic outcomes of all of its students. Since the start of the 2013-14 school year, Potomac Prep’s student population has remained consistent – an average of 400 students yearly. Amid the schools one-year turnaround initiative and significant challenges to retain […]

George E. Curry This season’s national college football championship has been decided, but no one knows how much longer we must continue to wait until the head coaching ranks are no longer largely reserved for White males, even those who have been failures at other schools.  Although Blacks were 53.4 percent of Football Bowl Subdivision […]

Lee A. Daniels Those who’ve wondered how, after the Civil War abolished slavery, America became – while a democracy in rhetorical terms – in reality an apartheid state should be paying close attention to the machinations of the Republican Party and the conservative movement.  They’ve been providing example after example of how democratic forms can […]

Dr. E. Faye Williams Trice Edney—In the last ten years, we have had tragedies resulting in more than 100,000 Americans dying as a result of gun violence.  Some in Congress have such little regard for life that they have chosen not to act to stop this violence.  They sit back and criticize and act as […]

Washington, DC – The National Black Church Initiative (NBCI), a faith-based coalition of 34,000 churches comprised of 15 denominations and 15.7 million African Americans calls on Mayor Rahm Emanuel to resign. NBCI’s President points to Emanuel’s lack of moral authority  as the reason he can no longer stay as leader of Chicago.  In this Sept. […]

Elijah Cummings During this holiday season when people of all faith traditions recommit ourselves to living our faith and forging a better world, we cannot help but reflect upon the lessons that we learned in childhood about the eternal dream for peace on earth and goodwill toward all of humanity. For me, these reflections are […]

Calvin G. Butler Jr. This June, a company, a city and an entire industry will observe a major milestone.  BGE – Baltimore Gas and Electric Company, turns 200. The company was founded as the Gas Light Company of Baltimore in 1816.  Very few companies from 1816 are still around today, but this is not the […]

Maj Gen US Army (ret) John R. Hawkins III The French have an expression that when translated states “…the more things change, the more they stay the same.” We as a global people can ill afford to continue to live that saying given our past of killing one-another in the name of religion or political […]

George E. Curry As the University of Alabama football team prepares to line up against Clemson University Jan. 11 in Glendale, Ariz. to decide the national collegiate championship, it’s worth noting that the Crimson Tide wouldn’t be “rolling” in success and the money that accompanies it without its Black players, led by 2015 Heisman Trophy […]

Lee A. Daniels Now, at the onset of the two months when many pay special attention to America’s racial past and present, the crime the Cuyahoga County, Ohio prosecutor committed not only against Tamir Rice and his family but American society as a whole offers an invaluable history lesson.  It’s that grievous sins of the […]

Dr. E. Faye Williams TriceEdney — I’ve always been intrigued with the symbolism used to depict change from one year to another.  It’s interesting to see my 365 days through a year represented by a decrepit old man who’d been a baby just 365 days before! I’m more amazed that the symbolism hasn’t changed and […]

George E. Curry In politics, 2015 was the year of insults for those seeking the Republican nomination for president. And Donald Trump was the undisputed Insulter-in-Chief. Among his numerous lowlights: Trump insulted former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina’s appearance by saying: “Look at that face! Would anyone vote for that? I mean, she’s a woman, and […]