Sanders Pushes Clinton On Transcripts of $21 Million In Paid Wall Street...
Clinton on the defensive After receiving $21.7 million in speaking fees from Wall Street firms, large corporations, and trade associations, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton recently...
View ArticleHillary Clinton is on Bern Notice
It wasn’t supposed to be this way. Hillary Rodham Clinton has everything necessary to be the prohibitive favorite in the 2016 Democratic presidential race. She has all the credentials, all the money...
View ArticleGOP on Full Circle
On Inauguration Day in January of 2009, a group of influential, establishment Republican leaders met for dinner at an exclusive Washington, D.C. restaurant to figure out how to obstruct...
View ArticleHillary Clinton Should Ask for Black America's Forgiveness Before She Asks...
Originally Published on Huffington PostHouston, we have a problem. Hillary Clinton's campaign has run into a major speed bump and it's called Bernie Sanders. As we move toward the day of reckoning...
View ArticleDeontay Wilder's 'Bomb Squad' Punch
“Deontay Wilder’s ‘Bomb Squad’ Punch”BoxingGlove Notes Distinio Lois, Jr.Heavyweight Champion Deontay “The Bronze Bomber” Wilder’s first visit to the Big Apple by way of the Barclays Center, Brooklyn ,...
View ArticleBlack History Month: Black Athletes Who Changed Sports
Black athletes can now take part in the same sports as their white counterparts without derision, but this wasn’t always the case. In years gone by Black athletes were looked down upon or taunted by...
View ArticleNew Progressive Politics: Why Bernie Sanders’ Campaign Matters
Sanders “Where there is no vision the People Perish”In 1988 Rev. Jesse L. Jackson galvanized the progressive movement and much of the Democratic Party as he campaigned for President on the slogan:...
View ArticleFDC REJECTS UGANDA POLL RESULT, WANTS AUDIT OF VOTERS AS OBSERVERS SAY...
“All options remain open including court, political, dialogue, etc. We demand for independent audits of voters who actually voted”.GULU-UGANDA: The main opposition party in Uganda, the Forum for...
View Article#UgandaDecides DEFEATING MUSEVENI'S ETHNIC-BIGOTRY MILITARY REGIME
[Comment: On Dictatorship In Uganda]Uganda has a tyrant who despises the country’s population.Even though Gen. Yoweri Museveni talks “Pan Africanism,” to him it's only really about his immediate family...
View ArticleRoad Warriors: Black Star News' Toby Rogers Hits The Road With Bob Marley's...
The Wailers 2016, featuring five year-old reggae freestyle prodigy Lee "Scratch" Busalachi- Photo: Toby RogersAs we headed into Pittsfield, Massachusetts, a run down ex-factory town, it was almost 30...
View ArticleGolden State Warriors: Remains To Be Seen
Now that a proper mourning period for all things football has come and gone, my attention has turned to basketball. College was an easy transition as the Sooners continue to hold their own amongst the...
View Article80% Of Latinos In Survey Have Unfavorable Opinion of Donald Trump
[Elections 2016]A new Washington Post/Univision poll of Latino voters show that if, as expected, GOP leadership fails to stop the momentum of Donald Trump’s nomination run, Republicans will suffer a...
View ArticleLatin Freestyle Celebrates Its 10th Year at Lehman Center
New York City has led the country in musical diversity. It has been the home for blues, rock, jazz, and the birthplace for bebop, punk rock, new wave, disco, freestyle and salsa which was influenced by...
View Article“SWEET SLEEP ORGANIZATION” BRINGS HOPE OF FINDING A HOME TO SOME OF UGANDA’S...
Twelve-year old Fiona Aber giving testimony to the President of Sweet Sleep Organization, Ms Madelene Metcalf, on how she found herself on the streets of Gulu Municipality in Northern Uganda, a region...
View ArticleForget Pundits -- Trump's The GOP Chickens Coming Home to Roost
Trump's the GOP nominee columnist says[Elections 2016]For the last eight months, the TV people and the professional Washington pundit-ocrity, like the New York Times' David Brooks and other corporate...
View ArticleAfrican Leaders In U.S. Make Their Case For Full Integration at White House...
Nii AkuettehFollowing decades of political and economic marginalization of the African population in the United States, over 100 African leaders and representatives from across the United States...
View ArticleMelissa Harris-Perry Walks Off Her MSNBC Show After Pre-emptions
In an unusually public flare-up, one of MSNBC’s television personalities clashed with the network on Friday in a dispute about airtime and editorial freedom and said she was refusing to host the show...
View ArticleInstead Of BEYONCE, Boycotts Should Target Police Unions That Condone Police...
[Commentary]Police unions across the country are now planning mass boycotts against pop sensation Beyoncé, because of her recent Super Bowl performance statement championing the memory of the Black...
View ArticlePolitically Disenfranchised, Economically Marginalized: New York’s African...
Prof. John FlateauDespite vibrant and growing African communities in New York State, African-born immigrants are nowhere to be seen in prominent positions within City and State governments. This...
View ArticleBassist Ron Carter; Detroit Jazz Festival's 2016 Artist-in-Residence
Bassist Ron CarterLegendary Bassist Ron Carter Comes Home as Detroit Jazz Festival's 2016 Artist-in-Residence.Festival to Run September 2 - 5, 2016The Detroit Jazz Festival, the world's largest free...
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