Douglas Turner Ward (1930-2021) wrote a searing play, Days of Absence that depicted the way life might be like in a small southern town...

Dyana Williams, Kenny Gamble and Ed Wright founded Black Music Month in June 1979. Also known as African American music Appreciation...

Iowa Senator Joni Ernst illustrated her shortsighted myopia at a town hall meeting in Parkersburg, Iowa. Not only did she defend cuts...

When schools let out for summer break, usually between mid-May and mid-June, millions of students will be disengaged from learning and...

Malcolm X, the fearless leader that the actor and activist Ossie Davis described as one of Harlem’s “brightest hopes”, the “stormy ,...

Critical thinking has taken a leave absence. Reality is unreal. History is inverted, so the villains become the victims, and the...

Are you better off than you were three months ago, when the current President was sworn into office on January 20? That’s the question...

His Holiness Pope Francis made his transition on the morning of after Easter Sunday, after he delivered an Easter blessing from the...

Kudos to Harvard University for standing up to the bullies in the Administration who are trying to meddle in all forms of university...

They rallied in Washington, DC and in Boston, in Chicago and Concord, New Hampshire, in Milwaukee and Asheville, North Carolina, and in...

On March 27, 2025, the President issued yet another inane Executive Order, this one a “Presidential Action “, titled “Restoring Truth and...

After he won the Nevada Republican caucuses in 2016, the current President crowed his victory.  “We won with young.  We won with old.  We...

It has not yet been sixty days, but in two scant months the 47th President has upended business as usual, in federal government, in...

Because I lack a degree in psychology or pathology, I cannot speculate about the motives of the 47th President who, on March 4, embarked...

African Americans have about $1.6 trillion in buying power. And we are the ultimate consumers, disproportionately spending on beauty and...

I can’t remember when I met Dr. Olivia Hooker, a Tulsa Massacre survivor, the first African American woman to serve in the Coast Guard...

The 47th President has attacked our government like a bull in a China closet.  He is doing his best to upend precedent and policy, as he...

What would Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. do to celebrate his 96th birthday?  Would he sit on the sidelines and cheer the incoming president...

As our beloved 37th President’s body makes its way from Plains, Georgia to Atlanta to the US Capitol to lie in state, tens of thousands...

November 30 is Shirley Chisholm Day in New York, and it’s about time New York the nation, and indeed the world celebrates this Black...