When unemployment rate data were released on Friday morning, commentators replied joyfully. Alan Krueger, who heads the White House Council of Economic Advisors, described the creation of 247,000 jobs as a victory, since the predictions were that the economy would only generate 170,000 jobs. Unemployment rates went down to 7.7 percent, while predictions were that […]
This 2013 March 10 marks the 100th anniversary of the passing and ascendance of Harriet Tubman, legendary freedom fighter and emancipator, all-seasons soldier, lifter-up of the light that lasts, and audacious opener of the ways forward in life and struggle for the liberation for our people.
It’s time to man up – I was wrong about Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. By Raynard Jackson — First, some background. I wrote a column in 2008 under the title,…
Chicago is in a state of emergency. Lives are being lost. Fear is growing. Local officials, ministers and community activists are working …
Part II. It comes as no surprise that even though most people do not condone or defend all that Dorner did, they still feel he had strong grounds for his grievances.
Shelby County, Alabama is suing the Justice Department because they think that Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (and its reauthorization in 1982 and 2006) is unfair. The facts – the small city of Calera, Alabama, redistricted its boundaries in a way that the sole African American councilman lost his seat. Section […]
‘We the people declare today that the most evident of truths — that all of us are created equal — is the star that guides us still; …
Part I. Seldom can a society seriously question itself; even less often can it honestly criticize itself and almost never can it openly and self-consciously condemn itself…
I was among the 33.5 million people who sat riveted to their televisions, parsing every second of the State of the Union Address. I was stunned to learn, through a Washington Post article by Lisa De Moraes, that viewership was less substantial for this address than last year’s 38 million, and even lower than the […]
Sex trafficking takes place in Milwaukee and Mumbai. Girls, women, and even boys are kidnapped, coerced, or seduced into prostitution. Grown men rape them. Drug them. And discard them.