Category: OPINION

Marian Wright Edelman “Suffering is inevitable, but how you deal with it is not fixed in stone. That can change. You can develop a way to face it.”  You might expect wise words like these to come after a lifetime’s worth of experiences, but Elijah Iqbal-Scott has seen a lot of sadness and sorrow in […]

Elijah Cummings For most Americans, the out-of-pocket prices that we must pay for essential prescription drugs, already too high, are increasing far too rapidly for our family budgets to sustain.  The Congress has the ability to moderate these price spikes — but only a sustained national outcry from the American people will bring about reform. […]

Ben Jealous In past 30 years, 120 people have lost their lives due to encounters with Baltimore Police. Many of them were unarmed. Yet before the Freddie Gray case, only five police officers had faced criminal prosecution related to on-duty deaths. Last week the Campaign for Justice, Safety and Jobs released our six-point agenda for […]

George H. Lambert It isn’t hard to find food in low-income urban neighborhoods. For a couple of bucks, you can feast on pizza, wings, burgers, buns or fries, and wash it down with 32-64 ounces of carbonated sugar water. The food that poor people can afford in the United States leaves a lot to be […]

James Clingman The Democrat debate was nothing short of embarrassing, insulting, and dismissive of Black people. While the men did not wear the traditional red and blue ties, thank God, the two and a half hour rhetorical exercise was an in-your-face thumbing of the nose at Black voters. How much more proof do we need […]

George E. Curry The first debate among Democrats seeking to succeed Barack Obama as president may have been the first time a group of national politicians bragged on television about getting a failing grade.  Speaking in the third person, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders began the show-and-tell by saying in reply to a question from moderator […]

Marquesa LaDawn Kim Zolciak fired by DWTS? The rumor mill is brewing about Kim’s departure from DWTS. Yes, she had a mini-stroke, but there are rules. If a contestant is injured, she or he must leave the show. Kim cancelled at the last minute during a previous season, forcing producers to find a replacement and […]

Herb Boyd NEW YORK – Since I have to teach on Saturdays at the City College of New York it was not possible for me to attend the 20th anniversary of the Million Man March in the nation’s capital.  I doubt if I would have gone under better circumstances because I have “been there, done […]

Alma Gill A Wedding Surprise Dear Alma, I’m so embarrassed. I feel just terrible. My cousin who still lives in the old neighborhood where we grew up asked me to help out with a wedding. She needed some extra hands at the reception. It was no biggie, I had done it before, so I said […]

Willie Jolley Rabbi Daniel Lapin is an Orthodox Jewish Rabbi, who shares wealth-building principles directly from the Bible. He is an acclaimed author, speaker, radio talk show host and with his wife, Susan, hosts a daily television show. He is known worldwide as America’s Rabbi, a noted rabbinic scholar.  He’s nationally in demand for his […]

James Clingman This is a follow up to an article I wrote several years ago. It reemphasizes the importance of action over rhetoric, and as we consider this particular time in history and all the financial and intellectual resources among Black people in America, I figure it’s time to revisit the concept of “potential.”  Have […]

Lee A. Daniels Remember when the conventional wisdom was that Jeb Bush was “the smart one” of the Bush brothers and would effortlessly steamroller his competitors on the way to 2016? Well, the political outsiders Donald Trump, Ben Carson and Carly Fiorina have all crashed the GOP establishment’s big dance, turning those predictions into fodder […]