In the hours after President Donald Trump was sworn in on Friday, the battle for America’s soul [...]
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Bannon like another hateful propagandist, Nazi Joseph Goebbels
WHEN I LEARNED of President-elect Donald Trump's decision to elevate former Breitbart News chairman Steve Bannon to [...]
Read moreAnti-Trump protests too little, too late
I was at once heartbroken and angry when I saw thousands of protesters take to the streets [...]
Read morePresidential election showed us bigotry is alive and well in America
The presidential election is over. Now the real work begins. After a hate-filled presidential campaign ripped the scab [...]
Read moreSolomon launches GoFundMe campaign for #Justice
Blacks are 2.5 times more likely than whites to be shot and killed by police. In recent [...]
Read moreColin Kaepernick and the truth about race in sports
Race stands at the intersection of media and sports in America. If that truth has ever been [...]
Read moreTrump rhetoric on voting could widen rift between blacks, police
Police in Milwaukee shot and killed a black man this weekend, sparking protests although police say 23-year-old [...]
Read moreJones: Henon works for whom – voters who elected him or union that pays him?
THE INHERENT conflicts of interest between Philadelphia's union bosses and political figures were brought sharply into focus [...]
Read moreNorth Carolina fight over black votes is just beginning
When I learned that a three-judge panel of the Virginia-based 4th Circuit Court of Appeals had struck [...]
Read more‘You can’t take the black vote for granted’
IT WAS DAY ONE of the Democratic National Convention, and liberal icon Rev. Al Sharpton stood with [...]
Read moreWest Point cadets. Black pride. Not politics.
THE ONLINE backlash against 16 black female West Point cadets who took a raised-fist photo in uniform [...]
Read morePrince led sit-in against musical segregation
Prince, who died Wednesday at 57, was more cultural force than musician. While his soaring guitar riffs [...]
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