by George E. Curry It’s time to give Minister Louis Farrakhan credit. When he issues a call for people to join him in the nation’s capital, Blacks show up. At least a million showed up for the Million Man March 20 years ago and at least two-thirds as many showed up for Saturday’s Justice or […]
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Proof that the Supreme Court Got it Wrong in Shelby
By George E. Curry, NNPA Columnist May 1, 2015 George E. Curry, NNPA Columnist When the Supreme Court gutted a key provision of the 1965 Voting Rights Act nearly two years ago in Shelby County v. Holder, many of us suspected that Chief Justice John Roberts in particular was distorting the severity […]
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DuBois and Trotter: My Civil Rights Heroes
By George E. Curry, NNPA Columnist February 27, 2015 George E. Curry, NNPA Columnist In the interest of full disclosure, I have been a W.E.B. DuBois fanatic since my teenage years in Tuscaloosa, Ala. I have a healthy collection of books by and about DuBois, including David Levering Lewis’ two-volume biography of […]
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Did NBC’s Brian Williams Also Lie About Hurricane Katrina?
By George E. Curry, NNPA Columnist February 13, 2015 George E. Curry, NNPA Columnist “NBC Nightly News” anchor Brian Williams has finally admitted that he had incorrectly asserted that a helicopter he traveled aboard in 2002 while reporting on the Iraq War in 2003 was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade, forcing an […]