Category: OPINION

As he was announcing his second increase in troops for Afghanistan in December 2009, President Obama promised that by July 2011 those troops would begin coming home. As relayed by Bob Woodward’s book, Obama’s Wars, we know the president was skeptical about the United States’ war effort in Afghanistan. In spite of that skepticism, the […]

Even before the financial system’s “meltdown,” the national mortgage crisis and credit crunch, Americans were calling their congressional offices for help with predatory and deceptive financial practices. All too often, these families were being financially strangled by garrotes made of fine print. Their homes were in danger, their credit card debt was nearly unsustainable, and […]

Last week, June 8-11, more than 450 attendees, including 132 HBCU students, came together in Orlando, Fla., for the National Urban League’s 42nd annual Black Executive Exchange Program (BEEP) Leadership Conference. BEEP, the National Urban League’s longest running direct service program, is a partnership involving the business community, government and non-profit institutions which places African-American […]

No one should be left out or left behind in this new innovation economy. A digital divide separates those who have access to technology from those who don’t – and that’s why I’m fighting to bridge that divide by bringing broadband to every county in Maryland. Whether you’re building a boat on the Eastern Shore […]

As families around the country get together to celebrate fathers today, I’m thinking about dads like Alex. Alex is the father of two boys and two girls, ages six to 13. During the week, he works the 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. shift as a front-desk supervisor at a Seattle hotel. After work and on […]

There’s a thin line between sex and politics, and it is nonsense to keep repeating the mantra that Egypt’s revolution “wasn’t about gender.” What revolution worth its salt can be fuelled by demands of freedom and dignity and not have gender nestled in its beating heart – especially in a country replete with misogyny, religious […]

New York City has become the latest battleground in the national fight for education equality. In some schools, hallways serve as a stark dividing line. Classrooms with peeling paint and insufficient resources sit on one side, while new computers, smartboards and up-to-date textbooks line the other. One group of students is taught in hallways and […]

In Black in Latin America, a four-part series that recently aired on PBS, Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. uncovered a side of the region that has long been known but for just as long hidden – the African heritage of many of its people. Gates traveled to the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Cuba, Mexico, Peru, […]

(TriceEdneyWire.com) – A very troubling pattern is developing within certain segments of the African-American community. There’s a concerted effort by some within the community to silence those who are offering honest, valid, and well thought through analysis and criticism of the Obama administration. Radio host Tom Joyner recently told his audience that those who criticize […]

“As diverse cultures, we struggled as migrants. That struggle led us both to the White House,” writes MARTIN O’MALLEY AS BARACK Obama visits Ireland for the first time as president, I am reminded of a simple gesture of kindness that altered the course of American history. In October 1960, Dr Martin Luther King Jr was […]