By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA News Wire Columnist The other day a friend of mine, after hearing the latest rants by Presidential candidate Donald Trump, asked whether we are better off with open expressions of racism than having such expressions silenced. I found the question quite interesting and provocative. It spoke to the nature of […]
We Can No Longer Remain Silent – Terror is Terror Part 3
Universally Speaking Message To The Black Community The association of terrorism with Islam is an old, dirty trick to glorify white supremacy and the religion of Christianity. Two very important points I would like to make in writing this article: 1.) We need to expand the concepts of terrorism and terrorist. 2.) We need to […]
Message to the Black Man: We Must Do For Self – Part II
Universally Speaking I consider myself a “Garvey-ite” because Marcus Garvey was a master of this philosophy. In early 1900s, Marcus Garvey was a leader of the largest Black movement in our history and his legacy has been treated as buffoonery or a joke. How did he do it, given the unbelievable opposition that he faced […]
Strategic Power of the Black Press in 2016
by Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA News Wire Columnist For over 45 million African Americans there are multiple priorities that need to be addressed in order to ensure that the socioeconomic and political interests of our families and communities are accurately articulated and fulfilled. We live in a multimedia world. Too often, however, we are […]
Climate Change and Black America
by Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA News Wire Columnist Why are millions of Black American youth and elders suffering disproportionately from asthma and other respiratory illnesses much more than the national norm? Why is the overall public health status of Black Americans at a higher risk than other Americans? What do public environmental and climate […]
What Does Terrorism Look Like?
by Julianne Malveaux NNPA News Wire Columnist I am among the tens of millions who had to be peeled away from their television set on Friday, November 13 and in the days after ISIS terrorists randomly massacred at least 130 people and wounded hundreds more in Paris. Then, there was the nearly 30 people executed […]
Black Lives will Only Matter When the Black Vote Matters – Part III
Universally Speaking Message to the Community Continued from last week’s issue of the Milwaukee Courier: Capitalists can profit off the misery of Black people. If we examine the economic boom generated by the mass incarceration of Black people and follow the money, we will see how many people benefit. Law enforcement, the courts, and the […]
Dr. Ben Carson and the Lessons from Clarence Thomas
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist I will never forget the debate that engulfed Black America at the time of the nomination of Clarence Thomas to the US Supreme Court. On the one side was the fact of his conservative record and his not having any semblance of a history as a staunch advocate for […]
The Myth and Paradox of Wisconsin Liberalism
by Mathew K. Jallow The statistics are striking, but far from shocking. For the decade and a half that I observed race relations in Wisconsin, I never ceased to be amazed by the falsity with which the state is perceived as a bastion of liberal values. To many outsiders, Wisconsin may appear liberal, even radically […]
Black Lives Will Only Matter When the Black Vote Matters
Universally Speaking Message to the Community with Rahim Islam Brothers and sisters, we will never be able to hold America accountable for the unbelievable wrongs that they have done to our ancestors and what the current American institutions are currently doing to Black people. These injustices are orchestrated through a system of policies and standards […]
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