To deal with our impoverished neighborhoods, it isn’t enough to get rid of the guns. The public squalor of our inner cities has to be addressed: schools modernized, affordable housing built, mass transit supplied, available jobs created. Gun control doesn’t cost much. Dealing with entrenched poverty costs real money, but less than we spend on the police, jails, drugs, alcoholism, and chronic illness — the dysfunction that comes from poverty.
By Brittney Cooper In 2011, high school senior Taylor Bell, a local rapper in Itawamba County, Mississippi, made a song in support of several female classmates who claimed they had been…
By Steven Rosenfeld When Barack Obama ran for president in 2008 and 2012, he didn’t just run on hope and change. He made hundreds of promises, everything from changing the way…
The year 2015 ended with a dispute involving former NYPD Commissioner, Raymond Kelly, and the present NYPD Commissioner, William Bratton. Kelly raised questions about the authenticity of crime statistics under…
By Patricia J. Williams Children march in New York City on November 22, 2015, the anniversary of Tamir Rice’s death at the hands of Cleveland police. (Photo: a katz / Shutterstock.com) In a world…
A former college president once said to me that today’s headlines is tomorrow’s fish wrap. There is some truth to that but often headlining events spill over to ensuing years…
By Robert Reich Right-wing mega-donor Sheldon Adelson has just bought the biggest newspaper in Nevada, the Las Vegas Review-Journal — just in time for Nevada’s becoming a key battleground for…
By Joan Walsh In a broad and fascinating end-of-year NPR interview, President Obama accused Donald Trump of “exploiting” the fears of “blue-collar men.” Now the right is shrieking that he’s playing “the…
BY JESSE JACKSON December 22, 2015 This week we celebrate Christmas — the mass celebrating the birth of Jesus the Christ — the Messenger. Across a country shaken by terrorism,…
By Frank Joyce The future of life on the planet depends on bringing the 500-year rampage of the white man to a halt. For five centuries his ever more destructive…
By David Morris Early this year President Obama spoke before the Cleveland Club. After the speech, seventh-grader Alura Winfrey inquired, “If you could go back to the first day of your…
2015 marks the 150th Anniversary of the adoption of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, during the Reconstruction period after the Civil War. The Amendment officially abolished slavery, completing a process begun with the “partial” Emancipation Proclamation which only “freed” enslaved Africans in those states that were at war with the Union. It would be the first of three Reconstruction Amendments which would abolish slavery, establish citizenship and grant the right to vote to the formerly enslaved Africans. The 13th Amendment is also noteworthy because of the pledge to “eradicate the badges and indications of slavery.” President Obama and members of Congress hailed the Amendment as one of the great achievements of racial justice at a ceremony in the nation’s Capital.
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