Editorial
You’ve had a few weeks to digest the evisceration of the Voting Rights Act by the not-so-Supreme Court. You’ve struggled with finding the appropriate...
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You’ve had a few weeks to digest the evisceration of the Voting Rights Act by the not-so-Supreme Court. You’ve struggled with finding the appropriate...
There are moments in history when a people must decide whether they will merely survive the storm or stand in the storm with courage,...
I miss Dean Martin. Yes that boozy baritone from 60’s and 70’s Rat Pack fame.
What started out with loud voices has morphed into quite whispers. Crowds chanting it’s a new day are now almost silent. Bluster has now...
By Terry Allen My grandmother, Lucille “Big Mama” Allen, spoke this all too well and many times during her lifetime. I know when you...
By Cheryl Smith As I watched the interviews of Black men, most of them fathers and some who aren’t; I beamed with pride as...
How is that possible? How can it be that words are at risk of obsolescence? Words are the very measure of civilization. I would...
By Marc Morial “These bills are about competitiveness versus complacency. They’re about opportunity versus decay. They’re about leading the world or continuing to let...
By Askia Muhammad One of my first, and most chilling, experiences as a young member of the Nation of Islam, selling the Muhammad Speaks...
By Dr. Froswa Booker-Drew I’m so looking forward to my weekends. During the State Fair of Texas, my colleagues and I work seven days...
By Vincent L. Hall Most times, I indulge in a process I call a “parallel didactic.” My parallel didactics attempt to tell two stories...
Without fail, mighty words would always shoot forth when Lucille “Big Mama” Allen stood in the doorway between the kitchen and the “big room”...
I love teaching! When I was eight-years-old, my friends were playing “house” and “doctor.” I was in another room with my sister, two younger...
Don’t feel language deficient or outside the loop if you can’t discern this title. If you were born in my generation, you knew to...