Category: OPINION

African Americans have yet to really seize the enormous opportunities offered by science and engineering. Emmanuel Glakpe is professor of nuclear engineering at Howard University in Washington, D.C. Two major campaigns should be mounted – one to improve the quality of education, the other to publicize the hell out of Blacks whose accomplishments in science […]

Martin Luther King III Last year, my family and I were honored to join millions around the world in celebrating the 50th anniversary of the landmark “March on Washington.” Beyond the powerful exhortation against racism of my father’s “I Have a Dream” speech, however, the organizers were demanding economic justice, along with civil rights, for […]

“There were those who said that this is a many-sided and very complex problem. But however viewed, the denial of the right to vote is still a deadly wrong. And the time for injustice has gone.” Hilary O. Shelton These were the words spoken by President Lyndon Johnson at the signing of the Voting Rights […]

Lauren Victoria Burke Have you ever seen a photo of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. taking part of a panel discussion? It’s likely he didn’t have time if he were asked. It’s also likely that in the 1950s and 1960s, he wasn’t asked much. The period King conquered was a time of action. The actions […]

I was recently on a driving tour of Cherry Hill with two community activists, a husband and wife team who work with youth in the isolated Baltimore neighborhood, when a police cruiser began to follow us.  We were on our way to meet a long-time resident and organizer and parked the car in front of […]

African Americans have marched a long way down the road to individual freedom and equality. Groups like the NAACP remain ever vigilant protecting and advancing our gains. But there is a missing link in the Civil Rights Movement—one that is often undervalued by most civil rights groups. That is, the right to “economic liberty.” The […]

Roger Caldwell It is now 2014, and Americans have forgotten the success of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Everyone is talking about President Obama’s dismal poll numbers, where only 40 to 39 percent think he is doing a good job. These numbers are the worse since he has been in office, and the Congress is […]

Congressman Elijah Cummings As the AFRO-American reported in June, our nation’s Black doctors are deeply concerned about the dangers climate change poses to our health. Since Americans of Color are especially vulnerable to those threats, measures to better protect our planet are fast becoming critical civil rights objectives. A survey conducted among members of the […]

Dr. E. Faye Williams The President of the World Bank Group, Jim Yong Kim, is expected to speak at Howard University on October 1. The powerful international bank is one of the most racist institutions in the US, hiding behind the veil of its immunity from US laws. Victims of discrimination are confined to an […]

George E. Curry The NFL – which has been referred to as everything from the National Felons League to, in the cases of players, Not For Long – has imposed a lifetime ban on Ray Rice yet rarely disciplines other brazen offenders. And when a team takes the rare action of disciplining a player for […]

The Matthew A. Henson Neighborhood Association is not only pleased to publicly “…accept responsibility and work together to ensure that every student is in school every day, on time and ready to learn,” but to invite and challenge all neighborhood associations to commit to communicating their participation as well. We have already informed Principal David […]