By: Charles D. Ellison Of terrorism’s many destructive traits, none is more horrifying than its ability to unexpectedly snatch our normalcy from us. Recent attacks in Paris force us into…

The history of Black people in this country is a complex, engaging and thought-compelling history, a history of Holocaust and enduring hope; of savage enslavement and yet an unsupressable desire…

November 17, 2015 Paul Robeson. Muhammad Ali. Bill Russell. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Jim Brown. Curt Flood. Hank Aaron. The “Black 14” at the University of Wyoming. The St. Louis Rams. Michael…
ISIS shocked the civilized world with its beheadings of civilians who they had held in captivity. Now ISIS is spreading its bloody tentacles in different parts of the world as…
By DR INDIRA MARTIN (Member of the Bahamas National Reparations Committee) With the Caribbean reparations movement gathering steam, it has become necessary to articulate, in public, the arguments and issues…
By: Charles D. Ellison Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson Check the latest polls and see neurosurgeon-turned-wannabe-president Ben Carson surf on a sudden wave of black support. Not that black…
By Robert Stitt The Huffington Post recently published a response to the New York times article “In Heroin Crisis, White Families Seek Gentler War on Drugs.” The articles point out…

November 10, 2015 We won the Voting Rights Act of 1965 at Selma, combining the power of a principled mass movement led by Dr. King and a compassionate president who…
By: Jason Johnson Dr. Ben Carson How do you explain a phenomenon like Ben Carson? Even better, how do you explain a phenomenon like Ben Carson in our 24-hour news…

Part 1. When we remember and recount the sacred narrative of Nat Turner, we must remember also the Kawaida fundamental teaching that our oppressor cannot be our teacher, especially about…

November 3, 2015 Across the country, parents have been in revolt against high-stakes standardized testing, with kids tested over and over again while creativity is cut out of classroom curricula….
By: Charles D. Ellison You can’t say we didn’t warn you, because we did. And after all that protesting noise all year about the plight of black folks under the…