Posts in category Opinion

Come February 2009, the NAACP will celebrate its 100th birthday. For many years, the organization’s mammoth national headquarters has been ensconced in a Baltimore corporate …

We know that this mainly belt-less, sagging pants phenomenon, popularized by black teenage boys, comes from the penal culture. Its antecedent is the popular “do-rag” …

People power is organized from the bottom up. That is the long and often arduous road that has to be traveled in order to achieve …

Yes, we the people are the United States of America because we the people comprise the states (“in Order to form a more perfect Union”). …

If former U.S. Secretary of State Gen. Colin Powell cannot convince you that Sen. John McCain does not have the temperament, judgment or the intellect …

If you don’t believe there is a segment of white America out there that wants to harm soon-to-be president Barack Obama, then you are undoubtedly …

They are called investment bankers, speculators, lobbyists, regulators and politicos. But in truth, the people involved in the current financial meltdown initiated on Wall Street …

You were summarily denounced as un-American if labeled “militant” or “radical” during the Civil Rights Era, especially during the 1960s and ‘70s. Negro integrationist leadership …

My entry into the southern civil rights struggle of 1960 was both deliberate and a divergence. At the time, I was a young adult, born …

Again, the great push is on to register black people to vote. The window of opportunity to register closes Oct. 6 for this all-important presidential …