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, […]
Category: OPINION
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Honest Criticism is not Betrayal; It’s Democratic
(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 […]
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Irish and African Americans changed US history
“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 […]
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Is America Still a Serious Nation?
When our evolving democratic system became so skewed that financial capital multiplied under control of miniscule elements in America that were sufficiently powerful to corrupt our political system, wars could and have been waged in support of those interests. Recall the departing words of the Republican President Eisenhower who knew so well the horrors of […]
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Un-“Common” Thoughts
Recently, Michelle Obama hosted an “Evening of Poetry” at the White House. She invited an eclectic group of poets to recite their poetry. But, Fox News and right wing radio has singled out one performer—the Grammy award winning rapper Common—to be on the receiving end of their ire. I don’t listen to his music, but […]
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Trump Employing ‘Birther’ Issue as a Weapon of Mass Distraction
“You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.” Abraham Lincoln A recent CBS/New York Times poll found that 25 percent of Americans and 45 percent of registered Republican voters believe that […]
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Why Do Blacks Care about the Royal Wedding?
African Americans seek committed relationships and marriage just as much as any other ethnic group. They, too, long for the pomp and circumstance that the world will witness April 29, when England’s Prince William weds his bride Catherine Middleton. It’s become standard practice in recent generations for Black couples to ceremonially jump the broom at their weddings. The […]
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Child Watch: Children’s Health on the Chopping Block
(NNPA) — Like many parents, California mother Anne-Marie Skinner knows “accidents happen.” Her active, athletic teenagers – Constance and Lucas – are both involved in a number of extracurricular activities, and both have unfortunately suffered sports-related injuries that required serious medical care. One of the worst accidents happened when a basketball hit Constance in the […]
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‘Mathis’ Mind’: Smarter on Crime
(NNPA) — The nation’s decades long war on drugs and ‘tough on crime’ posture has failed to reduce crime rates and control the rising prison population. Additionally, our current crime fighting strategy puts us at a disadvantage in other critical sectors, namely education. Knowing what we now know, it is clear that it’s beyond time […]
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William Donald Schaefer (1921-2011)
With the passage of William Donald Schaefer on April 18, an epoch of the last half of Maryland’s 20th century political world has come to a close. No other person during that time span dominated the political environments of Baltimore and Maryland as completely as Schaefer. With his initial election as Baltimore’s mayor in 1971, […]
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Blacks and the Economics of Voting
How long will the Black community continue to allow the Obama administration and the Democratic Party to insult them and then blame it on Obama not wanting to be perceived as a “Black” president? Let me give an example. You have invested in a business project, Obama Inc. There were four classes of investors: class W, […]
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Donald Trump’s Baseless Challenge to Obama’s U.S. Citizenship
Donald Trump, who is again flirting with the possibility of running for president on the Republican ticket, has garnered widespread publicity by repeating thoroughly discredited claims that President Barack Obama was not born in the United States and therefore is ineligible to be president of the United States. He has hired private investigators to look […]