The United Nations Isn’t A Bargaining Chip
Rebecca A. Shoot\Citizens for Global Solutions Photos: Wikimedia Commons Sixteen years after the fateful day the United Nations (UN) charter was promulgated in San Francisco, President John F.…
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Jimmy Carter Was Everything Trump Is Not
By John Harwood Photos: The White House\YouTube Screenshots\Wikimedia Commons Donald Trump, who values image over reality, complains that America’s flag will fly at half-staff over his inauguration. He…
‘Tip of the Cap’ Campaign to Salute 100-Year Anniversary of Negro Leagues
On the receiving end of those tributes are many of the Negro Leagues' greatest alumni: Satchel Paige, Josh Gibson, "Cool Papa" Bell and Jackie Robinson, who began with…
WHY I SUPPORT SENATOR BERNIE SANDERS AND HIS PROGRESSIVE PLAN FOR AMERICA
Rev. Jackson: "When Amy Klobuchar, Pete Buttigieg, Michael Bloomberg and all the other Democrats came out in support of the more moderate Joe Biden after his South Carolina…
Violence Against Women Act Signature Legislation–Rep. Karen Bass
Rep. Karen Bass. Photo: Wikipedia Rep. Karen Bass (D-Calif.), Chair of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security, delivered the following remarks urging the swift…
Tribute: To Richard Hatcher and Other Black Mayors
Richard Hatcher's 1967 victory was resisted--GOP have been trying to black African American progress for decades. This is what Mayor Sylvester Turner of Houston, TX, said of the…
Tribute: Dr. Samuel DuBois Cook, Towering Scholar
Dr. Cook, far right seated, shown with family. Photo: The Samuel Dubois Cook Center on Social Equity When Dr. Samuel DuBois Cook passed away May 29 our nation…
Les Payne: A Journalist in Full
Les Payne. Photo. SUNY Oswego-Flickr Originally published in Northeast Magazine, 1986 For a young black student fresh from "separate but equal" Alabama in 1954, the stately and old…
V.P. Pence, Not Trump, Atop Nuclear Arms Command — Intel Source
V.P. Pence--with correct golden codes? Photo: Whitehouse.gov U.S. intelligence officials were so alarmed after Trump's victory that an elaborate plan was devised before his inauguration to ensure that…
The Vester Lee Flanagan Tragedy–Evidence Of Dreams Deferred
Mass media prefer to dismiss cases like Flanagan as "loonies' rather than critical examination that can inform us all In the aftermath of the August 26, 2015, shootings…