National Urban Leaague: Tackling the Pay-gap for Black Women
Urban League's Marc Morial. Photo-Flickr. With the 2018 National Urban League Conference focused on the theme of “Save Our Cities: Powering the Digital Revolution,” we could not have…
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Fake Math: Trump Tax Takes From Have-less for the Have-Mores
No way to know if plan allows Trump to laugh all the way to the bank. Photo Gage Skidmore--Flickr Here's something from the Journal of the Senate of…
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…
Trump and Sessions Abandon Smart-on-Crime For Mass Incarceration
Jeff Sessions. Photo: Gage Skidmore--Wikimedia. This was the pointed message from Senator Cory A. Booker (D-NJ) to U.S. attorney general Jeff Sessions: “At a time when people across…
Yale University Consigns Calhoun Monument To History’s Heap
John C. Calhoun. History.com Don’t allow anyone to tell you differently. Symbols matter. Whether these symbols are flags, icons or names on buildings, symbols are shorthand and they…
With Questions About His Legitimacy, Trump Fires Salvo at Omabacare
Trump -- with 2.8 million less votes, hardly a mandateThe first few days of Donald Trump’s presidency have seen what may be the beginning of the end of…
National Urban League Rates Obama’s Overall Performance as “Excellent”
President Obama's final speech President Barack Obama in his farewell address on January 10, 2017 said, “That faith that I placed all those years ago, not far from…
Why Colin Kaepernick’s Action is Patriotic
Colin Kaepernick Robert F. Kennedy once said: "Few are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of the colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral…
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…
Republicans’ solution to gun massacres? A “moment of silence”
Marc Morial Keeping the Pressure for Common Sense Gun Reform The House Democrats' Letter to House Speaker Paul Ryan captures the current mood: “The question before us is,…