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U.S. Election 2020: Joe Biden’s Early Strong Showing in Texas, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Ohio Opens Path To White House
Candidate Biden is performing strongly in Texas, North Carolina, Ohio and other states Trump needs to win. Photo: WIkimedia Commons. Although Donald Trump has built a solid lead…
THE KILLING OF ATATIANA JEFFERSON TELLS BLACKS WE’RE VULNERABLE TO POLICE VIOLENCE ANYWHERE
These reckless police killings—and murders—of Black people continue with the silent complicity of politicians many of whom are now seeking Black America’s votes for the 2020 Elections while…
WILL TEXAS EXECUTE RODNEY REED FOR A LOVE TRIANGLE KILLING POSSIBLY PERPETRATED BY A POLICE OFFICER?
Renown forensic pathologists including Michael Baden, M.D., Werner Spitz, M.D., LeRoy Riddick, M.D., and Cyril Wecht, M.D. have all concluded that Reed’s guilt is medically and scientifically impossible.…
GRAMMY WINNING SINGER SOLANGE KNOWLES’ ORCHESTRAL PERFORMANCE PIECE “WITNESS!” WAS RECENTLY PRESENTED IN GERMANY
Grammy Award-winning singer Solange Knowles will be presenting "Witness," an original performance--accompanied by a 38 piece orchestra--at the Elbphilharmonie concert hall in Hamburg, Germany. Photo: Wikimedia Commons On…
AFT’S WEINGARTEN, MEDICAL NURSES AND OTHERS DENOUNCE TRUMP’S DEPORTING OF SICK IMMIGRANT CHILDREN
AFT's Randi Weingarten: “First, he separated families. Then he threw children in cages without food, water or showers. And now, in his cruelest move yet, Donald Trump is…
The Impact of Trump’s Vile Racist Rhetoric; The Hate that Hate Produces
Trump has now neo-liberalized racism. Photo: Gage Skidmore--Flickr Here's a Trump tweet from June 5, 2013: “Sadly, the overwhelming amount of violent crime in our major cities is…
Enemies of Democracy: Those who Suppress the Black Vote
Marc H. Morial. Photo: Facebook U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings, Chair, House Oversight Committee recently thundered: “This is not Russia. This is the United States of America. And I…
The Ballot And American Democracy: One Step Foward One Step Back?
President Johnson and Dr. King seal the deal I graduated from high school just a few months before the monumental Voting Rights Act was passed on August 6,…
Texas Police Terror: American Racism And Silence Of White Progressives
I recently watched the video of the fourteen-year old African-American girl being physically abused at a pool party by a white policeman in McKinney, Texas. The only way…