Dow, Hunter College Professor Who Studies Race, Accused Of Racism For Failing...
Whitney Dow; African student claims bias in failing gradeAn ugly battle has erupted within the Hunter College media department between a race-focused White male adjunct-professor and a West African...
View ArticleWhat do you do if your guest speaker doesn’t show?
It finally happened to me. My guest speaker didn’t show up to my event.It happened like a bad nightmare. “Maybe he’s stuck in traffic,” I thought to myself. “I bet he’s right around the corner.”I...
View ArticleHow The United States Operates Affirmative Action For Whites
Mitchell Zimmerman [Op-Ed] A New York Times obituary for Julian Bond, the civil rights icon who passed away this August, described the late leader as a “persistent opponent of the stubborn remnants...
View ArticleDr. Kiyingi, Top Uganda Cardiologist, Denied Presidential Election Forms By...
Dr. Kiying says "we must stop this madness"[Global: Uganda]Dozens of armed forces in military police fatigue stormed and surrounded the home of an aide to the Australia-based cardiologist Dr. Aggrey...
View ArticleHomeless But Not Helpless -- Protest Challenges Mayor de Blasio's Aggressive...
Homeless people and their allies will rallied on 125th Street yesterday, demanding an end to rampant violations of their rights by the NYPD under Mayor Bill de Blasio. "We crashed the mayor's phone...
View ArticleBeyond Tennis: Serena And Venus Williams Have Already Made History
Venus and Serena Williams[Commentary]No matter what happens in the U.S Open Tennis Tournament, Serena Williams must go down in history as one of the most intelligent and mentally tough athletes to play...
View ArticleThe Ballot And American Democracy: One Step Foward One Step Back?
President Johnson and Dr. King seal the deal[Witness for Justice]I graduated from high school just a few months before the monumental Voting Rights Act was passed on August 6, 1965. In the photographs...
View ArticleSouth Sudan: Dr. Horace Campbell calls for release of AU report
Fighting has continued in South Sudan’s oil rich Upper Nile State, despite the peace agreement signed on August 26th. Since December 2013, South Sudan's brutal civil war has cost more thousands of...
View ArticleVICTORY: Effort To Kill The Iran Deal Dies In The Senate
President Obama and John KerryThe two-month Republican-led effort to kill the Iranian nuclear accord in Congress failed Thursday, after 42 Democrats filibustered a procedural vote related to the...
View ArticleThe New Southern Strategy: GOP Calumny Against "Black Lives Matter"
GOP should see this image daily--Cold blooded execution of Walter Scott[Speaking Truth To Power]For over a year Congress has ignored the problem of institutional racism within America’s police...
View Article9/11 -- Vice President Biden and New York Governor Cuomo Address 300-plus...
Governor Cuomo shown with New Jersey Governor Chris ChristieGovernor Joins Participants in Final Leg of Ride Down to World Trade Center SiteVice President Joe Biden and Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today...
View ArticleWhy County Clerk Kim Davis Is Not Above The Law
Kim Davis --no Rosa ParksRowan County Clerk, Kim Davis, disagrees with the settled law of the land and is refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex Kentucky couples in violation of a federal...
View ArticleRangel On 9/11: We Must Do More For Victims and Victims' Survivors
Rep. Charles RangelFourteen years ago on September 11th, our nation suffered a tragic loss of nearly 3,000 lives when terrorist attacked the World Trade Center (WTC) and the Pentagon.We will never...
View ArticleToward The Looming US Fiscal Crisis
Lee HamiltonA couple of months ago, the Congressional Budget Office issued a sobering report on the U.S. economy’s long-term prospects. Not to put too fine a point on it, we’re headed for the fiscal...
View ArticleTalib Kweli's Concert Film "Prisoner of Conscious"
Talib KweliOne of this years can’t-miss exclusive film and music events will take place Saturday, September 26th as world-renowned hip-hop artist and political activist Talib Kweli will be on hand for...
View ArticleWhite House Spokesman Discusses Iran Deal, Syrian Refugees, ISIS, Venezuela
White House Press Secretary Josh EarnestMR. EARNEST: Good afternoon, everybody. Nice to see you all today. Finally Friday. I don’t have anything at the top, so let’s go straight to your questions....
View ArticleHow to fundraise without a powerful board
What if your nonprofit isn’t comprised of people with power, wealth and influence? What if your board chair can’t pick up the phone and raise $1 million? How do you compete when you feel other...
View ArticleEarth: The View from out there
I need you to put on your thinking cap for this op-ed piece. Have you ever looked up into a clear, star-filled nighttime sky and wondered if mankind is alone in the universe? Allow me to play angel’s...
View ArticleTop Uganda Security Minister Dead At 56
The interior minister Gen. Nyakairima was once army commander[Global: Africa]Uganda's Minister of Internal Affairs and former Army Commander Gen. Aronda Nyakairima died while on his way back to Uganda...
View ArticleAmerican Violence: With 320 Million People U.S. Has Almost One Gun Per Person
Reverend Otis Moss, JrRecently Reverend Otis Moss, Jr., pastor emeritus at Olivet Institutional Baptist Church in Cleveland, Ohio and former co-pastor at Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church after Dr....
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