By Wayne Dawkins “January 6 [2021] was practice,” announced the latest cover of The Atlantic Monthly magazine. We’ve been warned. Trump true believers, and the poorly educated suckers the twice-impeached 45th president loves, could pull this stunt again this week, if we are asleep. Unconvinced? Here I offer a tick tock, not the social media kind, of the […]
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2021: Highlights of the 117th Congress
By Congressman Kweisi Mfume One year ago, I took the oath of office to begin the 117th Congress. The initial coronavirus strain and COVID-19 pandemic were as they are now, in full throttle. Likewise, Donald Trump was contesting the November 2020 election results, we were days away from the January 6 violence at the U.S. […]
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Commentary: How to avoid seasonal depression or ‘holiday blues’
By Alphonso Gibbs Jr. Well, here we are again, the last few weeks of the year. Those weeks that include Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s—collectively called “the holidays.” If you’re reading this article, it means that you have survived the last two years, which have included an election, social unrest and oh that darned pandemic! […]
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Commentary: Remembering Desmond Mpilo Tutu
By Deborah Bailey Special to the AFRO Of all the many assignments Bishop Desmond Mpilo Tutu was entrusted to handle on this earth – outspoken opponent of the South African Apartheid system; dedicated advocate of non-violent resistance; Nobel Peace Prize Recipient; principled defender of justice for all people – it was Tutu’s work in chairing the […]
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Editorial: As The New Year Begins
By Dr. John E. Warren, Publisher, The San Diego Voice & Viewpoint The end of a year or a day is often a time of reflection on both what has been done and what could have been done better. While we can’t redo yesterday, there is much ahead that we can plan for and impact […]
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Op-ed: April Ryan to MSU grads: Ready to run the world?
By Wayne Dawkins HBCUs are running the world, Morgan State University alumni April D. Ryan told 500 fall graduates Dec. 17. Hyperbole? Ryan, Class of 1989, has covered the White House for Black-oriented media for at least a quarter century. That’s since the Bill Clinton administration in the 1990s, meaning she has been around Harvard, Yale […]
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Op-ed: There Must Be A Change In Us
By Norman Franklin We had some good days in 2021, and more than a few bad days; a lot of negative energy. We pause in this final week of the year and give thanks to God, He brought us through it all. We began the year with a lot of negative energy. It erupted on […]
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Letter to the editor: More heroes than we thought
Submitted by Kimball Shinkoskey Dear Editor, It has taken post-World War II America a long time to figure out that police, firefighters, and the military are not the only heroes in our society. It is true that country music singers, rappers, movie stars, and billionaires have been getting more and more traction in recent decades. […]
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The Moore Report: Reflections over the holidaze
By Ralph E. Moore Jr. In this week between the holidaze of Christmas and New Year (Kwanzaa week), I find myself thinking about things a little more deeply. For example: Otherworldliness and hitting that number Earlier last week, a member of our St. Ann Committee for the first Black saints from the United States, told […]
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Conversations with Dr. Kaye: It’s mourning in America: The incredible loss of bell hooks
By Dr. Kaye Whitehead As the president of the National Women’s Studies Association, I sent out a letter to our members mourning the passing of Dr. Gloria Jean Watkins, Ph.D./bell hooks: genius, scholar, cultural critic, author, professor, truth speaker, a lover of words and of us. She challenged us, taught us, spoke to and sometimes […]
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In 2021, organized labor is again flexing its muscles
By Ray Curry, UAW President These issues, front and center in the minds of millions of Americans for years, were deeply intensified by the pandemic of 2020 and 2021. As the pandemic took full effect, devastating job losses hit minority workers and their families especially hard and the critical role of health and safety protections […]
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Letter to the Editor
To The Editor: Relative to the pandemic and why the USA has something like the 70th highest rate of vaccination in the world and is lagging behind our allies is what I see as the incredible growth of anti-government ideology and propaganda. It began to grow around 1980 when Ronald Reagan would say things like […]
