Who or what is killing Jazz and why?
Academically speaking, the music popularly called jazz is American classical music. So-called jazz music was created by descendants of Alkebu-lan – the continent called Africa …
Manning Marable’s ‘Malcolm X’ biography is a tour de force
Malcolm was “my man,” as we say in African-American street parlance when referring to a brother he ld in high esteem. He encouraged me to …
Koinonia’s Christian Men of Destiny deliver effective social change
The streets of Northwest Hallandale, Pembroke Park and what is now the city of West Park used to be controlled by mostly young, black, small-time, …
Entrepreneur pushes higher education
The glossy brochure for an United Negro College Fund (UNCF) “An Evening of Jazz” fundraiser at downtown Fort Lauderdale’s Museum of Art featured a page …
Roosevelt alumni are inducted into Hall of Fame
WEST PALM BEACH — Frank Merchant hadn’t been back to West Palm Beach in 30 years. But, on Feb. 19, the retired college professor from …
We begin to hold our pastors and politicians accountable
People have a way of discounting certain unpleasant events as though, mystically perhaps, these realities never occurred or happened differently than they actually did.
We can’t continue to let the foxes run the hen house
It’s been 221 years since the American republic came into being with General George Washington, the patriot, landowner, slave/concubine holder elected as the first president …
The politics of containment will be the ruin of America
America’s black parents do not insist that public schools teach children that our Constitution not only provided for the enslavement of black people but also …
AL CALLOWAY SAYS: Hurricane Katrina was just the tip of an iceberg
Race, class, rich, poor are divisions and subtractions that greed and fear have conjured up from the depth of mass insanity. Earth’s human population explosion …
Vote on Tuesday for your own welfare
Tuesday’s primary elections in our bellwether state are of great social significance because what happens in Florida may begin to trend throughout the country. And …