Why do blacks let jazz music fade?
I was probably born listening to jazz music. It was the dominant sounds of my Harlem upbringing. Its roots of work songs, blues and gospel …
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Western blacks miss out on Africa’s riches
Well, here we are again, entering “Black History Month,” and our “educated” class led by blacks who have earned doctorate degrees in education (Ed. D.) …
Mr. President, we want an urban agenda
Unless you want to live in the projects or a deteriorating tenement building teeming with America’s black poor, grand Harlem, with its mixture of the …
Kill the males and kill a people part of black containment plan
What flipped me into revolutionary-type fervor as a young teenager was the gruesome photograph of 14-year-old Emmett Till’s battered remains on the cover of Jet …
We know what the guns are for
Young Trayvon Martin was profiled, hunted and slain, for being black and wearing a hoodie in the rain. If you’re black and hoping for justice …
Black people want positive action now
It is important that serious attention be focused on what those who ostensibly speak for us are doing. Without a finely honed accountability factor, political …
And, now, the dangerous aftermath
Whatever you think you know about white nationalism and its neoconservative byproduct, get ready for a tumultuous onslaught of near Reconstruction era (1865-1890) vehemence against …
Religion Briefly
SF Bethel AME rejects pastor SAN FRANCISCO – Leaders of San Francisco’s Bethel AME Church have rejected a troubled pastor from taking the pulpit at …
Obama too obsessed with healthcare
Al Calloway’s column in the Oct. 18 issue, titled, Romney president if we don’t vote, was not only well written but also subtlety eloquent in …
Al Calloway on the mark on democracy
Al Calloway always hits the nail on the head. Our country's rhetoric has never matched up to the reality, as he so succinctly describes in …