Category: OPINION

Rika Tyler and T-Dubb-O It’s been 250 days since our fallen brethren Michael Brown Jr. was fatally shot in Canfield Apartments in Ferguson, Mo. by Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson. Wilson got rich, famous, and a vacation after killing Mike Brown, a phenomenon that is occurring all too often across the U. S. In fact, […]

Dr. Natasha Pratt Harris It was Friday May 22, 2015. My niece headed to Mergenthaler Senior High School’s (MERVO) senior prom, her prom. We, our entire family and many friends, saw her off.  We took pictures before she and her date pulled off. Everyone wanted more. I wanted more. When my daughters and my niece’s […]

Marian Lee Lewis The definition of eugenics is, “The science of improving a human population by controlled breeding to increase the occurrence of desirable heritable characteristics. Developed largely by Francis Galton as a method of improving the human race, it fell into disfavor only after the perversion of its doctrines by the Nazis.”  Basically it’s […]

Congressman Elijah Cummings The graduation ceremonies taking place across America this month should heighten our awareness of the continuing struggle to make college more affordable for every American. A high-quality, affordable college education transformed my life, as it has for tens of millions of other Americans.  As President Obama has observed, finding the way to […]

Cornell William Brooks Freddie Gray wasn’t the only person to die at the hands of the police in April. Before Mr. Gray suffered three broken vertebrae during the course of his arrest by Baltimore police, 17-year-old Justus Howell was fatally shot by an unidentified officer in Zion, Ill. Like the death of Mr. Gray, Mr. […]

George E. Curry I recently attended my grandson Austin Ragland’s graduation from pre-school in Buford, Ga. Yes, you read correctly – pre-school. It’s never too soon to begin celebrating academic achievement, as his graduation from pre-school attests. So, PaPa was excited about going to Austin’s graduation ceremony and seeing him don a cap and gown […]

Moses J. Newson Updated June 1 2015 What if during America’s Civil War President Abraham Lincoln had headed a government legally loaded with confederate officials and his Union army had included thousands of confederate loyalists. Under that scenario, the confederates seeking by any means – violent and diplomatic – to overthrow the central government, would […]

Benjamin F. Chavis Jr. Hip-hop culture is about transformation. It is more than a global genre of music. Hip-hop is a transcendent cultural phenomena that speaks to the soul, mind, body and spirit of what it means to dare to change the world into a better place. Hip-hop is not just about acquiring funds or […]

Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson “Project Head Start” was launched by President Lyndon B. Johnson on May 18, 1965. Originally designed as an eight week summer demonstration project, Head Start has expanded into an array of preschool programs that provide children from low-income families with a comprehensive program that prepares them for successful entry into kindergarten, […]

Dr. E. Faye Williams, Esq., President/CEO National Congress of Black Women Sometimes in the Black community, we’re so concerned about feeding our families, paying the rent and figuring out other essential things that we don’t take the time to think about the environment and how it impacts us—but we must begin not only thinking about […]

Dr. E. Faye Williams, Esq., President, National Congress of Black Women. (Updated 5/23/2015) Currently, there is an ongoing case that is underway in the World Bank’s Administrative Tribunal involving an African litigant who wanted to introduce a DNA test result to establish that blacks are human and should be treated as such by the World […]

Congressman Elijah Cummings This year Senator Elizabeth Warren and I have teamed up to launch a series of investigations — the Middle Class Prosperity Project — in order to focus greater congressional attention upon the bread and butter issues that matter the most to our nation’s working families. In February, we examined the harsh reality […]