Category: OPINION

(TriceEdneyWire.com) – The medieval vassal state was legend for the disparity established between haves and have-nots. Feudal lords routinely ruled their serfs without compassion or regard for their humanity. It was customary for feudal lords to live and feast in the lap of luxury while serfs scraped a meager living from unforgiving soil. When a […]

(TriceEdneyWire.com) – The jobs numbers were hailed as good news last week, with employers adding over 200,000 jobs last month, and the unemployment rate ticking down to 8.8 percent. Less attention was given to the downside of these numbers. Black unemployment remains about twice as great as the national unemployment average – and is going […]

On March 28, Ward 3 District Councilmember Mary Cheh convened a hearing to examine a former mayoral candidate’s allegations, which some describe as an “HR nightmare” for the new administration of Washington, D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray. I am familiar with some of these issues as I served as the chief of staff in the agency, […]

(TriceEdneyWire.com) – As the nation marks the 43rd anniversary of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, which occurred as a result of his intervention and support of the Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike, it is important for the American public to remember the historic and continuing role of protecting and maintaining workers’ rights as part […]

In the season of slavery, historians defined the Black church as the “invisible institution.”  The name was given because Blacks assembled to worship under a shroud of secrecy because such gatherings were outlawed by those who had the mind to know if a slave had a filled spirit, it would be a matter of time […]

Sitting here in Hawaii in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, I’m appalled and aghast with the way the Imperialist Western media has covered the Earthquakes, Tsunami and Nuclear Devastation in Japan. CNN, ABC, MSNBC and FOX news and the “talking head experts” all reported that it was ok for the winds to blow off […]

Black Americans are losing political clout. The loss of voting power is not from White peoples’ skullduggery, but due to our own movement choices. 2010 Census data show that 20 of the 25 cities that have at least 250,000 people and a 20 percent Black population lost political clout. These declines happened in traditional Black […]

(NNPA) — The mass protests that led to the downfall of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak after 35 years in power and  the 23-year tenure of Tunisian President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali have inspired protests throughout Northern Africa and the Middle East – including in Libya, Bahrain, and Yemen – and have underscored the United States’ […]

(TriceEdneyWire.com) — Census data on city populations made headlines last week. Washington, D.C., apparently, only barely can be described as “chocolate city” since the African-American population is only a scant majority in the city. According to The Washington Post, even the block on which former mayor Marion Barry cut his teeth, married former wife Effie, […]

April 4 marks the somber anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968. Too often, sadly, Dr. King is remembered more for his famous “Mountaintop” speech than the cause he died for. Forty-three years ago next week, Dr. King stood shoulder-to-shoulder with 1,375 Black Memphis sanitation workers and with the African-American […]

In 2009, 181 women from 31 different countries created the largest all-female skydiving formation in history. What would possess so many daughters, mothers, and even grandmothers to don pink jumpsuits and free fall thousands of feet? The same things that motivated me to get involved with “Pink Skies,” the new film that documents the record-breaking […]

The writer is the son of AFRO freelance photographer J.D. Howard. He lives in Tokyo with his family and is an employee of Dell computers. He sent this letter to family and friends via e-mail on March 18, then a week after the earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan. Dear family and friends, … I’ve […]