Optimism hard given African-American plight
To the Editor: Regarding Al Calloway’s column in last week’s edition, Where does black leadership go from Troy?, I like being optimistic in most instances. …
Where does black leadership go from Troy?
What appears to be the Troy Davis fiasco should almost involuntarily focus black people everywhere on justice and its centuries of meaninglessness.
Churches must play a key role toward ensuring the right to vote is preserved
It was America’s 34th president, the great World War II general Dwight D. Eisenhower, who warned about “the military industrial complex.” He cautioned to beware …
Minorities, unions, progressives form a collective of do-nothing Americans
Christians will tell you that even Jesus Christ, the carpenter with The Good News, could not nail down human behavior. (It is believed that His …
Mentor calls on athletes to build homeless shelters
Special to South Florida Times RIVIERA BEACH — They are in an elite club: professional athletes at the top of their careers and have savored …
Mother Africa weeps while the Diaspora sleeps
According to the Oakland Institute, an Oakland, Calif., non-profit social development think-tank, the super rich, especially European, and some U.S. universities are engaged in a …
Ignorance and fear thwart genuine black liberation world-wide
So we now know that, as of 2008, African Americans had an aggregate purchasing power estimated at $913 billion, larger than the economy of mineral …
A mainstream middle-class majority dominates black America
Before the civil rights movement, lucky black men, some with college degrees, got steady work as Red Caps at major train stations and as Pullman …
Black ‘Abandoned’ face life of poverty
Unless you are one of them, more than likely walking down streets pockmarked with trash-strewn empty lots, amid some boarded up and deteriorating houses and …
West Palm Beach Deltas to recognize women of exellence
WEST PALM BEACH — Julianne Malveaux, president of Bennett College for Women in Greensboro, N.C., economist, author, and commentator will deliver the keynote address when …