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…
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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.
BY JESSE JACKSON December 15, 2015 Leaders provide vision. They help people understand where they are, how they got there and what they must do to go forward. They…
By Basil Wilson For Carib News 12/16/15 The San Bernardino act of terrorism has changed the conversation in the campaign for the Presidency. President Obama’s address to the nation from…
Dr. Maulana Karenga It is an irony and tragedy of history that as we come into this season of celebration of Christmas and Kwanzaa and of calling for peace and…
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