By Marc H. Morial, NNPA Columnist May 29, 2015 Marc H. Morial, NNPA Columnist “Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair. / It’s had tacks in it, / And splinters, / And boards torn up, / And places with no carpet on the floor—Bare. / But all the time / I’se […]
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Tony Robinson’s Last 20 Seconds
By Dr. John Y. Odom May 22, 2015 Twenty seconds. It was time enough for Officer Matt Kenny to enter the residence of Tony Robinson. Time enough to get involved in a fight. Time enough to get his head banged against a wall. Time enough to shoot Tony seven times. Time […]
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Seeing and Not Seeing Our Racial Reality
By Lee A. Daniels, NNPA Columnist May 22, 2015 Lee A. Daniels, NNPA Columnist “Americans don’t want to imagine that our racist history is actually an ongoing racist reality. We like to look at racism as a thing that has gotten better (if not gone away completely) and that the way black […]
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Give the People What They Want – We Want Freedom, Justice & Equality: Part 2
By Rahim Islam May 15, 2015 Rahim Islam Also see: Give the People What They Want – We Want Freedom, Justice & Equality: Part 1. In my previous article, I tried to recapture the spirit of one of many of Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff's “message” songs. The song I chose was […]
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Baltimore: We Have Been Here Before
By Jesse L. Jackson, Sr., NNPA Columnist May 8, 2015 Jesse L. Jackson, Sr., NNPA Columnist Now it is Baltimore. There Freddie Gray, a Black man, was stopped on the street, pinned to the ground, dragged to the back of a police wagon, and died in police custody. Six officers were suspended. […]
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Black Women Killed by Police are Ignored
By Julianne Malveaux, NNPA Columnist May 8, 2015 Julianne Malveaux, NNPA Columnist You know their names – Eric Garner, Michael Brown, Tamir Rice – because these African American men were unarmed and killed by “law enforcement” officers. Their names have been part of a litany invoked when police shootings are discussed. Their […]
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Give the People What They Want – We Want Freedom, Justice & Equality: Part 1
By Rahim Islam May 1, 2015 Rahim Islam We Want Freedom, Justice and Equality Black people, like all other people, want freedom, justice, and equality. The mere fact that these words were used in the O’Jay’s 1975 song “Give the People What They Want” suggests that Black people […]
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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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Time to End Mass Incarceration
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr., NNPA Columnist April 24, 2015 Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr., NNPA Columnist Mass incarceration in the United States is counterproductive and disproportionately causes a long-term injury to Black Americans and others who remain trapped in poverty and disillusionment. How is it that the richest nation on earth and […]
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Child Watch: Republican Budget Winners & Losers
By Marian Wright Edelman, NNPA Columnist April 24, 2015 Marian Wright Edelman, NNPA Columnist In the House and Senate budget proposals for fiscal year 2016, passed with only Republican votes at the end of March, there are big winners and big losers. The big winners are defense spending and contractors and very […]
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