Neighborhood festival will call attention to violence
RIVIERA BEACH — I’Zarion Colin became Palm Beach County’s youngest crime victim on May 28. He was only 18 months old. I’Zarion was laid to rest …
Leaders must give meaningful role to the young
Al Calloway’s column, “Is the NAACP dying in Florida…,” in last week’s issue was a bold move. To confront an issue of leadership in our …
Is the NAACP dying in Florida and is this a national trend?
Florida’s top NAACP official is an ardent self-promoter, a steely povertician. Johnnie Raye McMillian, a.k.a. Adora Obi Nweze (a Nigerian name), amassed 39 years in …
Black flight from reality should be of concern
You got out of the projects or the little box house with a septic tank on the street with no sidewalk. A decent supermarket was …
It is all coming to a head America, and it will be ugly
The Trans-Atlantic African slave trade was by far the most horrific activity ever conceived of and implemented by human beings. Nothing compares to its enormity, …
Blacks must organize against white oppression
Come on, now. You don’t mean that after more than 400 years there is confusion about what Occidentals will do to black people? All but …
White supremacy is world’s greatest evil
The enslavement of Africans by Washington, Madison, Jefferson and other so-called “founding fathers” of the United States of America, and by myriad other Occidentals, was …
Broward mayor’s success a tribute to late father
FORT LAUDERDALE — From the time she was a little girl, Barbara Sharief followed him everywhere. “Unless he had to go out of town, one …
Black people need to mobilize
We’ve suffered slavery, sharecropping and second-class citizenship. Many of our ancestors have been lynched by white mobs, murdered on a whim and unwarrantably killed by …
Africans came before Columbus
In America, it is quite possible and, in all likelihood, most probable that an “educated” person can complete a college degree in just about any …