50th Anniversary of Medgar Evers’ Assassination Reminds Us of Civil Rights Work That Remains
By Barbara R. Arnwine Fighting for social and racial justice is the enduring component of the civil right movements. In the tumultuous 1960s many great leaders emerged, dedicating their lives to moving America toward justice. Iconic civil rights activist, Medgar Evers made tremendous efforts in fighting for positive change and social justice. June 12, 2013 [...]
Julianne Malveaux Says that Inequality Must Be Confronted
** Author’s Note: In my column “IF YOU DON’T LIKE DISPARITIES, TRY EQUALITY” I erroneously restated a comment I heard during a “think tank” at Rodham Institute. I was extremely remiss in not fact checking this statement. In communicating with Howard University, the facts are that of the 120 students admitted in Howard University’s [...]
Professors Make Strong Argument Against Tracking Kids Through School
In the 1969 Supreme Court ruling Alexander vs. Holmes County Board of Education, a unanimous court ruled that a Mississippi school district “terminate dual school systems at once and to operate now and hereafter only unitary schools.” The ruling, a mandate for non-compliant segregationists, was supposed to finally reverse the tide of Jim Crow era “separate [...]
Former Obama Admin Official: Obama Needs to Get “on the Right Side of History on Economic Policy”
by Dr. Williams Spriggs This week, the Center for American Progress (CAP), a think-tank closely associated with President Obama’s Administration since it was the home of many key White House officials like Gene Sperling and Melody Barnes, changed course on backing a “grand bargain” with Republicans on cutting Social Security and Medicare benefits and raising [...]
Dr. Julianne Malveaux: Does Big Brother Have a Racial Bias?
by Dr. Julianne Malveaux When George Orwell wrote the novel 1984, he envisioned a character, a real or imagined “Big Brother” who was a know-all, see-all, omnipotent and elusive presence that intruded into lives because he could. Those who knew about “him” were told that they did not exist, but in many ways, Big Brother may not have [...]
Dr. Wilmer Leon: Obama’s Insecure State of National Security
By Dr. Wilmer J. Leon III “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.” Benjamin Franklin Last week The Guardian newspaper confirmed what many Americans have suspected for a very long time, the American government is spying on its own citizens. The Guardian published a [...]
Heckler Explains Why She Went After First Lady Michelle Obama
Remember the heckler who went after Michelle Obama in public? She isn’t done. Ellen Sturtz made international headlines when she spoke up against the first lady at a fundraiser. But she was also taken aback when the first lady came right back at her. Sturtz is a fighter for the rights of the LGBT community [...]
Julianne Malveaux Explains How Whites Have Recovered from the Recession, but Blacks Have Not
by Dr. Julianne Malveaux Although the overall unemployment rate still exceeds 7 percent, and the official Black unemployment rate is greater than 13 percent, there are some who insist that there is a robust economic recovery in progress. Indeed, we were declared “post recession” in 2011 based on the definition of recovery as GDP growth [...]
Rev. Joseph Lowrey: The Anatomy of a Modern Day Drum Major
by Rev. Joseph Lowrey On April 9, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. preached a message that was strikingly applicable to the lives of modern day civil rights leaders and leaders of America’s future. In the pulpit of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta only five days before he was assassinated, Dr. King meticulously outlined [...]
Dr. Wilmer Leon Explains Why d**k Cheney, Not Eric Snowden, is the Traitor
By Dr. Wilmer J. Leon, III “But over time that awareness of wrongdoing sort of builds up and you feel compelled to talk about (it)… eventually you realize that these things need to be determined by the public and not by somebody who was simply hired by the government.” Edward Snowden Interview the Guardian Edward [...]
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