The Paper That's More Than Black and White
By Julianne Malveaux April 10, 2015 Julianne Malveaux Eleven Atlanta teachers have been convicted of altering student test scores on standardized tests. They are charged with racketeering and conspiracy. The much-celebrated Superintendent of Atlanta Public Schools Beverly L. Hall was among the indicted but was too ill to stand trial. She died […]
By Rahim Islam April 3, 2015 Rahim Islam Continued from Urban Renewal Is About Urban Removal: Part 1 Wherever you see large numbers of Black people in any one area, you will find a large population of those living at/near poverty. There are two Chicago’s, two Philadelphia’s, […]
By Rahim Islam March 27, 2015 Rahim Islam I, along with over 10 – 15 others, have been working very hard to advance this movement that we call the Milwaukee Community of Leaders (MCOL). We have been working hard in the trenches building the foundation that we pray will be able […]
By Rahim Islam March 20, 2015 Rahim Islam “Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly,” wrote Langston Hughes. One of the greatest men that the world has ever known is the late, great Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. author of […]
By The Madison Times Staff March 13, 2015 Photo: Hedi Rudd. Tragic. Heart-wrenching. Difficult to fathom. Those are just a few of the emotions that arise when attempting to understand the shooting death of 19-year-old Tony Robinson by a Madison police officer. The death of Robinson has triggered protests by hundreds of […]
By Rahim Islam March 13, 2015 Rahim Islam Where you start matters! For the Black community in America the economic start has been so disproportionate and bankrupting that so called “ghettos” and the Black community go hand-in-hand. This has created an accepted stigma of inferiority about Black people and Black neighborhoods. […]
By Marc H. Morial, NNPA Columnist March 6, 2015 “Much research points to the widespread existence of unconscious bias… We all – white and black – carry various biases around with us. I am reminded of the song “Everyone’s a Little Bit Racist” from the Broadway hit, Avenue Q: ‘Look around and you […]
By Julianne Malveaux, NNPA Columnist March 6, 2015 Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel just got spanked. Despite a campaign war chest of more than $15 million and the support of President Barack Obama, the former Congressman and White House chief of staff could not avoid a run-off in the non-partisan election. Garnering 45 […]
By Eelisa Jones February 27, 2015 When New York’s Republican Mayor, Rudy Giuliani, told a room packed with fellow GOP members that our 44th President had no love for The United State of America, he succeeded in complicating the campaign trails for a number of high-profile potential candidates for the 2016 presidential race. […]
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 […]