Category: OPINION

Men from Morehouse College At the exact same moment that 30,000 people were marching in Washington, DC chanting, “No Justice, No Peace” in support of Eric Garner, Michael Brown and other victims of police killings, a 15 year-old Black boy, Demario Bailey, was being shot in the chest for his jacket by other Black boys, […]

Congressman Elijah Cummings Federally approved generic drugs are critically important to the health of the American people.  These federally regulated, lower-cost generic drugs now account for 86 percent of all prescriptions dispensed in the United States, saving Americans billions of dollars every year and reducing our nation’s healthcare costs. In recent months, however, and sometimes […]

Talib I. Karim The Facebook page for Rand Paul—the 51 year-old, anti-war, pro-marijuana decriminalization Republican Senator and apparent front-runner to nab his party’s nomination for President—features several unflattering pictures of Hillary Clinton, the presumptive leading Democratic candidate. On Paul’s FB page, titled #HillarysLosers, viewers find Clinton, 67, in photos alongside a list of 2014 Senate […]

Eddie Bernice Johnson Recently individual members of the Congressional Black Caucus spoke on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives regarding the decision by a grand jury in Ferguson, Missouri not to indict a police officer for the shooting death of Michael Brown, an unarmed African-American teenager. Without exception, members of the Caucus expressed […]

Baltimore City continues to engage its citizens in dialogue about the civil treatment of it residents.  Mayor Stephanie Rawlings Blake has taken some bold steps to elevate the distrust of citizens of the police.  The recent curfew statute that went into effect in the City this year was rolled out with a great deal of […]

In September of 1955 Mamie Till allowed Jet magazine to print the badly decomposed photo of her son Emmett Till on the front cover.  Till’s image on the Jet cover sparked outrage across the United States. Many Americans asked the same questions we are asking today when faced with a multitude of cases over the […]

Marion Barry No one is neutral about D.C. “Mayor for Life” Marion Shepilov Barry Jr. You either love him or despise him; there is no in-between. He gave no room for in-between. He was, indeed, “all that!” The larger than life “People’s Prodigal Prince,” as I once dubbed him while he was singing his redemption […]

Lauren Victoria Burke In 1983, it was Michael Stewart, 25. He was a graffiti artist who was beaten to death in police custody in New York. No one paid a price for his death. On the day of Stewart’s arrest, the Committee Against Racially Motivated Police Violence was holding a news conference. There were vigils. […]