Category: OPINION

When Rick Santorum suspended his bid for the GOP Presidential nomination earlier this month what seemed inevitable finally came to pass; Mitt Romney became the presumptive GOP nominee. Yet, with virtually no viable challengers left in the race Romney’s road to the Republican convention in Tampa, Florida seems to only get bumpier. The GOP’s conservative […]

“The landscape of any Tennessee Williams play is the human heart, and I have a cast of people with heart.” ~Emily Mann, director of the new Broadway revival of “A Streetcar Named Desire” with an all-Black cast Like Hollywood, Broadway has historically been reluctant to cast African Americans in mainstream classics, especially those originally created […]

If one were to look up “tenacity” in a dictionary, one might well simply search for logo of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, or a photograph of the MLK Memorial Foundation’s Executive Director Harry Johnson Sr. In 1984, the men of Alpha Phi Alpha proposed a national memorial to Dr. King, and they continued to push […]

Why does the concept of putting our dollars together for one collective purpose, say, business development, seem so foreign to us? Yes, we do a great of talking about it but seldom see the results of having done so when it comes to purchasing foreclosed homes, vacant lots, and businesses in our neighborhoods. We complain […]

WASHINGTON (NNPA) – African-Americans are more than twice as likely as non-Blacks to believe that if 17-year-old Trayvon Martin had been White, his killer would have been arrested rather than set free, according to a new USAToday/Gallup Poll. Martin was killed by George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch captain, as he was walking back to a […]

With the economy once again playing such an important role during this election cycle, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released the March unemployment numbers on April 6 amidst great anticipation and perhaps uneasiness. The final numbers showed an 8.2 percent overall jobless rate, a slight drop from the 8.3 percent rate in February, leaving room […]

In an age when freedom is fast becoming the exception rather than the rule, imprisoning Americans in private prisons run by mega-corporations has turned into a cash cow for big business. At one time, the American penal system operated under the idea that dangerous criminals needed to be put under lock and key in order […]

In the Baltimore region, and across America, job growth remains the most important issue on people’s minds. We have evidence that our economy is improving, but it also remains painfully clear that we have much more to do — both nationally and right here in our own community. In my neighborhood, we are aware that, […]

Ward Four has everything to lose, if Muriel Bowser is not defeated. Bowser has received nearly $ 300,000.00 in campaign contributions, for the April 2012 Primary. This is a huge sum of money for a ward race. Most of her opponents haven’t raised a tenth of what she has raised. The Ward Four Primary race […]

IT’S HIGH TIME, PAST TIME AND OUR TIME… to elect the first African American candidate to the United States Senate from Maryland! One could practically count on one hand the number of African Americans who have served in the U.S. Senate! We represent 12 percent of the American population – yet we have 0 black […]