Category: OPINION

Julianne Malveaux is a Washington, D.C.-based economist and writer. Judging from its June 18-19 meeting, the Federal Reserve is hedging its bets. It says the U.S. economy is on the mend, but more slowly than expected. They’ve reduced their estimate for economic growth and say that it will take a year or more to get […]

Jim Clingman, founder of the Greater Cincinnati African American Chamber of Commerce, is an adjunct professor at the University of Cincinnati. If you and your children were sitting at the dinner table, with no food and no prospects for getting any, what would you say to them and what would you do? Would you tell […]

Jeremy Bamidele is a former faculty member at Rancho Santiago Community College in California and currently lives in Philadelphia, Penn. where he is completing graduate school at the University of Pennsylvania. Words like sissy and f** can often be heard in the Black community to describe a man who falls outside the comparatively restrictive confounds […]

As young people graduate from high school, or finish the school year as sophomores and juniors, they begin to search for summer jobs. For the past several summers, the jobs have not been there, and this summer will be no different. It is true that economists are projecting a better employment situation for the college […]

I graduated from Istrouma Senior High School in Baton Rouge, La., that, according to GreatSchools.com, is currently 98 percent African American and where 90 percent of the students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. As a student there, I became aware that Louisiana State University (LSU) required physics for admission. Though physics was not […]

I am writing in regard to the hearing that will be held on July 31 in Washington D.C. This hearing will take place as a way to assess anti-poverty programs and the progress of the War on Poverty. Government programs are essential in helping those who are trying to escape poverty. I am worried that […]

There has arisen a peculiar phenomenon over the past seven years. Conservative legislatures in states such as Florida and Wisconsin have passed statutes that limit the ability of cities and counties to raise minimum wages and pass other legislation to advance the interests of workers. This has become part of a well-oiled operation by the […]

Racism is still alive and well in Mississippi and throughout this country just as it was in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. This clearly suggests there is much work to be done. When we look at those in control of things in this country, we see, for the most part, things are in the hands […]

As we celebrate another notable anniversary of the civil rights era – Thurgood Marshall’s 1954 victory in the five cases we know, collectively, as Brown v. Topeka Board of Education – we should take a moment to thank Harry and Eliza Briggs and their neighbors in Clarendon County, S.C. Their efforts to assure that Clarendon […]