
By Glen Ford — “The Black Misleadership Class has no intention of taking any position that might discomfort this president or reveal their own impotence.” While the Congressional Hispanic Caucus…
By Glen Ford — “The Black Misleadership Class has no intention of taking any position that might discomfort this president or reveal their own impotence.” While the Congressional Hispanic Caucus…
The president is committed to reforming our gun laws; a working group headed by Vice President Joe Biden is considering a broad agenda. Th…
There is lots of buzz about our nation’s “economic recovery” in these first weeks of 2013. The stock market has been rising, some would say even soaring. We postponed the fiscal cliff crisis, albeit only for a few weeks – March is the new deadline. The tone and tenor of debt ceiling conversations has shifted […]
For the first time in American history, there will be two African-Americans in the U.S. Senate. William “Mo” Cowan, a Democrat, from Massachusetts, will join Senator Tim Scott, a Republican, from South Carolina.
The new year begins with a bad hangover from 2012’s inane debate over the “fiscal cliff.” The furious debate focused only on how muc…
Our story is undeniably linked to the complexities of white America.
George Washington Carver (January 10(?), 1864-1943) was a remarkable and multidimensional man, one of the great scientific minds of the 20th century, whose impressive intellectual range is reflected and reaffirmed…
President Obama must use his standing to speak on urban violence
President Barack Obama has the opportunity, in this second term, to put his feet on history. He won an election that his opponent had essentially claimed, he has been firm about that which he would negotiate on, and he has offered a progressive inauguration speech that offers up a liberal agenda, embracing Social Security and […]
Christmas decorations light the streets. Malls are full. Christmas music fills the air. But this year, there is a somber undercurrent to t…
This is the month when our minds and hearts turn toward Haiti in focused homage to the Haitian people, who through their liberation struggle carved out of the rugged rock and horror of the Holocaust of enslavement a special space for African and human freedom in the world.