Legislatively Speaking By Senator, Lena C. Taylor This week a number of suspicious packages containing potentially explosive devices were mailed to former government officials as well as the headquarters of CNN at the Time Warner Center in New York. The packages were addressed specifically to former President Obama, Vice-President Joe Biden, Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-California), […]
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The GOP’s Voter Suppression Game
Capitol Report By State Representative, Leon D. Young It’s no secret that Republicans will go to great lengths to hold onto their majority to advance their Conservative political agenda. The recent skirmish for the Supreme Court, involving Brett Kavanaugh, provides a vivid example. For years Republicans have perpetuated this false and totally inaccurate narrative of […]
Trump’s New Trade Deal gets a Few Things Right While Falling Short
By Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. Donald Trump on Monday announced a new NAFTA draft treaty, renamed for showtime as the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement. Canada, ignoring Trump’s insults and gibes, threats and posturing, joined Mexico in making a deal. The new pact contains some much-needed reforms—and falls glaringly short in critical areas. Auto workers and truckers get […]
Calling All Voters
Capitol Report By State Representative, Leon D. Young Next Tuesday, August 14, is a very important day for our state. It marks the date of the 2018 Partisan Primary Election and much is at stake. Clearly, the marquee matchup on this year’s primary ballot is the gubernatorial contest. Eight Democrats are running in the August […]
When it Comes to the Vote, We’re Fighting a Second Civil War
By Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. The talk shows are filled with the latest rumor about WikiLeaks and Russian interference in our elections. What was done still remains a mystery. But Republican tricky leaks—the systematic efforts to suppress the vote—are an established fact, and a far greater threat to free elections. The facts are not in […]
Black Women You Should Know
By Julianne Malveaux (NNPA Newswire Columnist) All too often, our “history” month turns into a tribute to the past. And while the past is an important place to lift up it is, indeed, a tributary, a stream that flows into the larger stream of an unbounded future. The future must always be greater than the […]
Home-Grown Reactionaries, Not Russians, are Greatest Threat to Our Elections
By Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. This past weekend, we once again gathered in Selma, Ala., to commemorate “Bloody Sunday,” the March 7, 1965, march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge that was savagely put down by police. That march – and the march from Selma to Montgomery that followed under federal protection – helped galvanize public […]
Trump’s Kangaroo White House
Capitol Report By State Representative, Leon D. Young They come and for whatever reason they go. This has been the ongoing spectacle at the White House. Donald Trump’s White House is a more chaotic one than we’ve been used to. That’s not to say that every White House isn’t a chaotic one, but Trump’s is […]
Is Trump the Worst President in the Last 50 Years?
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor) Donald Trump, a man best known as a “birther” with a reality TV show and a real estate empire, who claimed that Mexico was sending drugs and rapists to the United States, was sworn in as president on January 20, 2017. What happened next was predictable and we […]
Four Things President Obama Can Do to Help Blacks in His Last 100 Days
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Newswire Columnist The countdown to President Obama’s last one hundred days began on October 13. Already, the President has committed to spending his waning days in office by campaigning for Hillary Clinton, the Democratic nominee for President. Indeed, he has put his legacy on the line, telling Black people at his […]
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