South Carolina

MedgarEvers

Voting Rights Act: Our Votes Matter

Medgar Evers and many other paid the ultimate price to register Black voters–murder [Op-Ed] Today as we celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Voting ...

Trumpp2

Thank Donald Trump For Exposing How Racism Defines The Republican Party

  Donald Trump keeps telling it like it is — the Republican way   So racism is okay but disrespecting a war veteran is ...

Jenny Anderson Horne - R - SC

Profiles in Courage (South Carolina edition)

During Wednesday’s highly controversial, contentious, and emotional debate in the South Carolina House of Representatives about whether to remove the Confederate flag from the ...

Flaga2

Flesh And Blood: The Individual Stories Of The Nine Charleston Massacre Victims

To think they even have to “debate” whether this should be removed or not… The lives of six women and three men were cut ...

Jackson2

Amazing Grace: More Reflections Upon Barack Obama’s Charleston Euology

Obama delivers. He left Clementa Pinckney’s funeral as a Black man who happened to be president. If Martin Luther King’s “I Have A Dream” ...

UseCornell

How To Combat The Scourge Of Police Killings Of Unarmed Black People

Cornell William Brooks Freddie Gray wasn’t the only person to die at the hands of the police in April. Before Mr. Gray suffered three ...

Comey

F.B.I. Director James Comey Is Wrong: Dylann Roof Is A Politically-inspired Terrorist

Columnist says FBI chief Comey is wrong; Roof is a terrorist [Speaking Truth To Power] South Carolina Massacre and Church Fires Within a week, ...

DYlan2

Charleston Massacre: Domestic Terrorism, Racism, Gun Lobby

Cartoon by: Khalil Bendib The recent mass murder of worshippers in an African-American church in Charleston, South Carolina raises troubling questions for all Americans. ...

black white cross

SPECIAL COMMENTARY: American Tragedy & Travesty

“Places of worship are sacrosanct. The houses of The Lord are supposed to be set aside for the uplifting of God’s most holy name ...

Brown2

BEYOND FERGUSON: CRIMINALIZING POVERTY IN AMERICA

The DOJ investigation following Michael Browns killing exposed Ferguson’s financially-driven criminalization scheme “Held captive” is how one 13-year-old described the feeling of growing up ...