My Activism For Justice Was Inspired by Dr. King
Photo: Dr. King Portrait by Betsy G. Reyneau--Wikipediacommons I was marching on Broad St. and Market St. in downtown Newark, NJ with 100 other people last week on…
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No Success Without Successor — Nominations Soon for Urban League 25
Marc Morial. Photo-YouTube This is how Vernon E. Jordan, Jr., a past present of the Urban League once out it: "You are where you are today because you…
Book Review: Herb Boyd’s “Black Detroit”
Author Herb Boyd. Photo--Flickr BLACK DETROIT A People's History of Self- Determination Herb Boyd 352 pp. Amistad "Who would be free themselves must strike a blow." Reviewed by…
President Trump Is Proof Positive That Ignorance is Bliss — And Dangerous
“Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”--Martin Luther King, Jr. “I Love the Poorly Educated” Donald Trump--February 23, 2016 There is…
Hubert Harrison: 134 Year Birthdate Anniversary
Hubert H. Harrison Founder of First Organization and First Newspaper Of the Militant “New Negro Movement” Hubert H. Harrison (April 27, 1883-December 17, 1927) was a brilliant writer,…
“Fake News”? Without Courageous Media Civil Rights Progress Would Have been Delayed
Pioneering journalist Ida B. Wells. Source: YouTube Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., knew the power of media and once observed: "The brutality with which officials would have quelled…
As Trump’s Approval Plunges Channel Dr. King’s Lessons To Progressive Movement
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, in his from Beyond Vietnam speech, on April 4th, 1967 said “Our only hope today lies in our…
Claims Receivers’ & Competitors’ Feast in Millions: As Federation, Black- and Latino-operated Non-profit “Dissolved”
Ousted: Lionel White (purchasing agent); Beatrice Gonzales, (director/human resources); Danny King (ceo); and Paris Jones (resident manager). Photo: Hakim Mutlaq This article is the first in a series…
Scholar Kevin Young Named Director of the Schomburg Center
Kevin Young The New York Public Library has named distinguished poet and scholar Kevin Young as Director of its Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, an internationally…
Violence and The Nation: The Root of unrest is Lack of socio-economic opportunities
Brutal execution of Alton Sterling As demonstrated by the recent acquittals of the Baltimore police officers accused in the death of Freddie Gray, and the wave of violence…