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 grounds of the state…
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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 short under a hail…
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" speech is the 20th…
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 broken vertebrae during the…
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 South Carolina Massacre and Church Fires Within a week, of the murders of nine African-Americans in the…
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. First among them: How…
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 through song, praise, prayers,…
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 poor in our wealthy…
Baltimore: To Fight Racism And Abuse Against African Americans, Black Officers Must Reject Self-Hatred
The Accused Baltimore Dirty Six Historical racism in the United States has so devalued Black lives that some African Americans have developed intense self-hatred and believe that Black…
Baltimore Tragedy: Urban League’s 10-Plan Program For Police Accountability And Reform
“There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.” – Charles de Montesquieu, “The Spirit of…